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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m British, and this discussion is confusing to me because I had thought that the things called scones here were just an entirely different baked good to the English scones I’m used to. Not trying to be like an English scone, just a totally different thing. Like what you call biscuit and what I call biscuit are completely different and not trying to be the same thing at all. Actually, now I think about it, an American biscuit is probably closer to an english scone. 
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English scone = American biscuit
English biscuit = American cookie
English flapjack = American variation of coffee cake
American pancakes (sometimes called flapjacks) = English what?
Starbucks scone = hockey puck!
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You're right, except American biscuits traditionally involve lard or shortening along with milk or buttermilk and baking power (the upper midwest version I grew up with did not use buttermilk--and I faintly remember eating them sometimes with Karo white syrup, probably a holdover from my mother's Depression farm childhood).

It would have been fun if your list had at some point managed to loop around--but the explanation of English flapjacks was new to me![/quote]

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