What's the difference between biscuit and scone?

Biscuit


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
  • (n.) A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.
  • (n.) Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
  • (n.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A whole website ( nicecupofteaandasitdown.com ) is now dedicated to choosing the best biscuit for the job.
  • (2) The discount retailer, which sells products ranging from biscuits to dog food and washing-up liquid, said total sales increased more than 12% to nearly £350m in the three months to the end of December.
  • (3) Hence the nerves, hence the curtain twitching, hence the good tea cups and posh biscuits laid out on the table.
  • (4) In the spoiled samples, the highest total counts were 820 million in buttermilk biscuits.
  • (5) They were preparing the breakfast at our thatched hat, it was a tea and some biscuits,” Ali says.
  • (6) She almost wills her biscuits to dry out and her pies to sink.
  • (7) We evaluated the effect of a compound containing alginic acid plus antacid (extra-strength Gaviscon) versus active control antacid with equal acid-neutralizing capacity on intraesophageal acid exposure following a high-fat meal (61% fat: sausage, egg, and biscuit).
  • (8) School-age children in Chile received 30 g of wheat-flour biscuits daily through a National School Lunch Program.
  • (9) Bond doesn't expect WI sales at local fetes and markets to be affected as the biscuits and preserves "have been made in members' kitchens in limited quantities, as opposed to the WI Foods products that are produced by small-scale family manufacturers in larger quantities for the general public".
  • (10) The food they give us is biscuits, rusks and apples.
  • (11) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
  • (12) During a metabolic ward study, the addition of dietary fiber in the form of wheat bran biscuits to the diet of five volunteer subjects resulted in an increase in the stool wet weight and fecal solids.
  • (13) The dog biscuits were completely consumed significantly more often than the baits (155 of 176 [88%] for the biscuits versus 89 of 176 [50.5%] for the four baits; P less than 10(-6)), but were chewed for a significantly shorter time than the baits (mean time 34 sec for the biscuit versus 60-82 sec for the four baits: P less than 0.001).
  • (14) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
  • (15) For the 600 hostages snacking on biscuits and chocolate, there is no sleep, no beds, no hot food, no hot drinks, no toilet paper, no washing facilities, a meagre supply of medicines - and, apparently, a deepening bond between the hostage takers and their victims.
  • (16) The message is clear: Clinton is the elderly grandmother who comes round for tea and biscuits and then has to be driven home when she falls asleep in front of Jeopardy.
  • (17) ANSWERS: Maths 1 C 2 11am 3 40cm Reading 1 C 2 Fine Foods Ltd 3 Answer must refer to fact that the best before dates identify the batches of biscuits that are affected.
  • (18) Unlike the multi-racial community living and working in Woodstock , Cape Town’s oldest suburb, the vast majority of the Old Biscuit Mill’s patrons are white, while many of those serving in the food market and other businesses are black, as are the car guards and beggars outside.
  • (19) Non-smokers, of both sexes, were significantly more likely than smokers to consume, frequently, fresh fruit in summer and winter, fruit juice, cooked and canned fruit, salads in summer and winter, breakfast cereals, cakes, biscuits, puddings, pasta, poultry, light desserts and preserves.
  • (20) It got off to a rocky start but intends to focus on Shanghai, where a rapidly growing new strata of Chinese society – the urban rich – has developed a taste for western brands from Prada to Gucci, along with French wine, Spanish olive oil and British biscuits and beer.

Scone


Definition:

  • (n.) A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Scottish argue that it was they who introduced the risen pancake (known north of the border as drop scones) to the Americas.
  • (2) He has all his mum’s and dad’s things there in Scone..
  • (3) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
  • (4) She plied contractors with scones to get the inside track on the construction process and can tell you how much each component part weighs.
  • (5) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
  • (6) These buttery potato scones glisten on my plate like Grecian tiles.
  • (7) The final technical challenge went, counter-intuitively, back to basics, asking the rivals to make miniature versions of three patisserie classics: sponge cake, tart au citron and scones.
  • (8) What you will notice is the very good coffee (from £1.65, supplied by local roasters, Bailies), the fantastic cakes and scones (around £1.80), and a reasonably priced menu of sandwiches, wraps and daily specials, such as red Thai vegetable curry.
  • (9) These simple but hearty scones are ideal for any time of day.
  • (10) Plates of scones and cakes appear, followed by pots of tea.
  • (11) On Christmas morning 1950, the Stone of Scone – crowning stone of the kings of Scotland since the 10th century – was stolen from beneath Westminster Abbey's coronation chair by an undergraduate brigade of Scottish nationalists and driven back to Scotland in the boot of a Ford Anglia.
  • (12) Two years after Starbucks stated publicly that it was committed to using 100% RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) certified sustainable palm oil in products such as its raspberry chocolate chip scone and Mallorca sweet bread by 2015, customers are in the dark.
  • (13) Natalie's questionings are conducted in the manner of a weary supply teacher nagging for GCSE coursework, yet yield amazing rewards with criminals who tend to confess to both the relevant crime and then to any other old crimes knocking about: eating Shergar the racehorse, stealing the Stone of Scone or pissing in the Blue Peter pond.
  • (14) We don’t know what’s going on and how long it’s going to be.” The family were down to their last food supplies – a few scones, jam and some chocolates, all of which were intended as gifts for relatives.
  • (15) In Buenos Aires, the Richmond Salon- oak-panelled walls, chairs with red leather seats, extravagantly dripping candelabara - offers a straightforward 'Afternoon Tea' menu of biscuits, scones and toast with marmalade.
  • (16) Mel Giedroyc Did you send in some scones with the pitch?
  • (17) His last television appearance came as Mr Sniggs, the junior dean of Scone College, in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, starring Jack Whitehall.
  • (18) Nothing beats a whisky hangover like the uber-Scottish Tattie Stack – a pile of double potato scone and smoked bacon topped with Stornoway black pudding and a fried egg.
  • (19) Imagine, if you will, Crabb, her basket crammed with scones and jam, rapping on the security gates at Eddie Obeid’s sprawling residence and then exchanging witty repartee while he works the stoves.
  • (20) Yet the warmth of its welcome, the charm of its opulent rooms and period features and the quality of its celebrated breakfasts (and complimentary afternoon cakes and scones) make this a great place to stay.