Biscuit - Simple English Wikipedia

# Biscuit

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A biscuit is a type of food. They are small baked breads or cakes.

## [edit] Biscuits in British usage

British digestive biscuits (which are called cookies in the U.S.).

In British English, Australian English and New Zealand English, biscuits are usually sweet and are eaten with milk or coffee. In North America these are called a "cookie".

Despite the difference, this sense is at the root of the United States' most prominent maker of cookies and crackers, the National Biscuit Company (now called Nabisco).

## [edit] Biscuits in North American usage

American biscuits with honey.

In American English, a "biscuit" is a small form of bread, similar to scones, made with baking powder or baking soda as a leavening agent rather than yeast. (Biscuits, soda breads, and corn bread, among others, are sometimes referred to collectively as "quick breads" to indicate that they do not need time to rise before baking.)

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