You can have plain biscuits, the American baked dumpling sort of thing, as opposed to English biscuits which in American parlance, are cookies. You can have shortcake, which is a sweet biscuit. Yesterday, I played with the idea of savory biscuits. I sauteed some sweet onions, cut up some ham and diced some muenster cheese, mixed these things into the dry bisquick, the low-fat kind, splashed in some water, and made drop biscuits, just splatting a lump of batter on the baking sheet. They went into... Sign in to see full entry.