"Biscuit" covers a wide range of flour baked products, often an unleavened cake or bread, crisp and dry in nature, and in a small, thin, and flat shape. It has a number of dif
…ferent meanings in different countries. In the USA, a biscuit is a soft, thick scone product or a small roll similar to a muffin. The words cookie and cracker are used to refer to the sweet and savoury crisp items In the United Kingdom a biscuit is either a sweet or savoury and crisp, and equivalent to what the USA cookies and crackers. In Australia and New Zealand a biscuit is sweet like the USA cookie, and the term cracker is used for savoury versions. Biscuit means 'twice cooked' from the French. well they come from the shops ! (MORE)