Scones with bowls of cream and jam are piled on a plate. - Nicolamargaret/Getty Images Besides complementing your nightly dinner, canned biscuits serve as a convenient way to simplify some of your ...

First of all, biscuits and scones have a lot in common. With a couple (crucial) exceptions, both contain the same basic ingredients: flour, butter or lard, and a liquid to bind the dough together.

I think I am becoming the Cliff Clavin of food trivia. For those of you too young to recall (or too young to stay up to watch late-night reruns), Cliff was a character on the 1980s sitcom “Cheers” — a ...

The American scone is a confection in crisis. Puffy and pale, supersized and supersweet, it has lost its purpose. Is it a muffin? Is it a pastry? Does it exist to be frosted with icing, or spread with ...

I think I am becoming the Cliff Clavin of food trivia. For those of you too young to recall (or too young to stay up to watch late-night reruns), Cliff was a character on the 1980s sitcom “Cheers” — a ...