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If you toggle the language back to English, you'll see that Anglo-Canadians call them cookies.
Funnily enough though, neither the cookie nor the soft North American buttermilk biscuit are the original biscuits. My Oxford dictionary says that a biscuit is a flat, crispy, unleavened and often sweet cake which better describes something like McVitie's Digestive or On the Go biscuits commonly available in the UK and sometimes here in the US. I may be wrong but something tells me it was the British that first coined the term "biscuit" and others thereafter used the term to describe other items.
"Middle English: from Old French bescuit, based on Latin bis ‘twice’ + coctus, past participle of coquere ‘to cook’ (so named because originally biscuits were cooked in a twofold process: first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep)."
Couldn't find a Quebecois one, but here is how biscuit is pronounced in French.
The word biscuit originally referred to what's also known as hardtack, twice cooked dry bread pucks kept as rations on naval ships and military campaigns because they were lightweight, kept well, and were easy to transport. They date back to Rome. They also weren't particularly tasty so nobody eats them anymore. The word diverged to mean a sweet tasting, smaller version of the same thing in the Commonwealth (a type of cookie or digestive), and a bready but fresh and rich scone like thing in the US. Both have elements of the original, UK biscuits are roughly the same texture amd shape but are sweet, and the US version has a similar flavor but totally different texture. So, we're both wrong and both right.
"Middle English: from Old French bescuit, based on Latin bis ‘twice’ + coctus, past participle of coquere ‘to cook’ (so named because originally biscuits were cooked in a twofold process: first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep)."
Couldn't find a Quebecois one, but here is how biscuit is pronounced in French.
You can get them easily enough. I have seen them at several places. Personally I love those types of biquits.
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