When you ask about Biscuits , most of us Americans think of it as a light
homebaked individual roll/biscuit. (It is occasionally used with gravy, but I
never have). It is usually dressed with butter and honey, or jam. It has been
compared , here, with scones, but IMO biscuits are much lighter and tender than
scones.
Don't mean to tread on anyone's toes here, but when I travel in England
and have afternoon tea, I always request that they replace the scone with
another crumpet. I find scones very dry and unappetizing--even at the best
hotels and tea shops. One exception, when I was in the country at a little
place, and the scones were hot out of the oven.
Here, in America, biscuits are available ready made for home baking--they
come refrigerated in cardboard tubes. The "Flaky" kind are especially good
and, well, flaky.