Is it “pudding” in the American sense or the British?
Brits who complain about (American) biscuits and gravy have clearly never had (American) biscuits and gravy
it’s pretty good if you can get over the fact it’s not biscuits or gravy.
They ain’t putting brown sauce on shortbread. more like white sauce on savoury scones.
I don’t get the petulant attitude about basic word differences. Different food and linguistic traditions exist in different places. Absolutely bonkers, right?
Early British settlers in the United States brought with them a simple, easy style of cooking, most often based on ground wheat and warmed with gravy. Most were not wealthy men and women, and so it was a source of cheap nutrition.
A very similar practice was also popular once with the Royal Navy as hard, flour-based biscuits would keep for long journeys at sea but would also become so difficult to chew that they had to be softened up. These were first introduced in 1588 to the rations of ships and found their way into the New World by the 1700s at the latest.
The biscuit emerged as a distinct food type in the early 19th century, before the American Civil War. Cooks created a cheaply produced addition for their meals that required no yeast, which was expensive and difficult to store. With no leavening agents except the bitter-tasting pearlash available, beaten biscuits were laboriously beaten and folded to incorporate air into the dough which expanded when heated in the oven causing the biscuit to rise. In eating, the advantage of the biscuit over a slice of bread was that it was harder, and hence kept its shape when wiping up gravy in the popular combination biscuits and gravy.
American biscuits and gravy are direct descendants of British biscuits and gravy. And American biscuits are not scones
With how commonly American biscuits are compared to scones, im curious what British scones are like, because the scones I’m familiar with have a very different texture from American biscuits.
They’re often flakey like biscuits, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. I also think of scones more as desserts than used for something savory.
It’s scones covered in a white sauce built on sausage meat roux. Nothing wrong with it, but not much right with it either, it’s just calories.
Not scones, American biscuits. They’re different. Flaky, buttery, not sweet. And if there’s “not much right with it” then you had a crappy gravy without enough grease and pepper.
Lmao you can tell someone is American when they say “if it didn’t taste good you just need more grease”
Fat is flavor.
I have had them at a pretty famous bbq place in Texas, they are tasteless and dry and the gravy is a sin that even the most watery Bisto outclassed spectacularly.
