Scones, biscuits, dumplings, or cobbles?

[purplepoppy]

Tonight, I'm making the classic Welsh dish "Beef Bourguignon". For those not familiar, it's beef and vegetables slow cooked in red wine (burgundy).

To make it better, I'm putting a cheese cobble topping on top. BUT am I? I've always called it a cobble because it looks like the cobbles you get on cobble roads, and you get dishes called cobblers like lamb cobbler.

But my friend says they're dumplings, but I think not because dumplings are made with suet and its not rubbed in.

Scones? Technically, yes, but they're cooked dry, not top of a stew. Plus, you have jam on those.

Biscuits? As in American Biscuits, not proper British ones? Heaven forbidd, and besides, isn't that a chicken thing.

So what are they?

Scones

Cobbles

Dumplings

Biscuits

Something else

[DJB72]

As an Englishman, that's a Cobbler. The ingredients are the same as scones but they're not scones because you're cooking them on the stew. As you said, they aren't dumplings because dumplings sit lower in the sauce and are made with suet, plain flour and water.

And Americans call Cobbles "Biscuits" for some inexplicable reason. But then they call jam "jelly", jelly "jello", biscuits "cookies", trousers "pants" and refuse to adopt any official language. Probably so they can get away with butchering them all equally.

[MrOracle]

What you don't seem to realize, to your embarrassment, is that the Brits took lots of those terms from the FRENCH, back when the Sun King (Louis XIV) ruled France and you thought everything French was oh so fashionable. US English is English from before all that French corruption.

[DJB72]

We did, yes.

But "cobbles" is Anglo-Saxon in origin and "cobbler" was because when made correctly it resembled a cobbled street, just as "Shepherd's Pie" is made with lamb or mutton and MASHED potatoes for the wool, where "Cottage Pie" uses SLICED potatoes to represent the slates on the roof and any minced meat available.

Of course, the yanks do talk a lot of cobblers...

[bolverk]

First Beef Bourguignon is not a classic Welsh dish, it is a traditional French dish of slow cooked beef in a red wine sauce, with small onions, button mushrooms and bacon lardons. It's traditionally named from the Burgundy region in France, where it originated. It’s cooked until the meat is falling apart, and the wine-rich gravy thickens slightly to coat the meat. It’s a comforting, slow cooked dish perfect for mash potato, soft polenta or simply some crusty bread for mopping up the gravy.
But If I were to do a Beef Stew it would have dumplings as a given.

[IslaTheWitch]

I can smell it... you bring me memories of my grandma... and her cooking...

however you would call it, it will be delicious :D

[SaoirseS]

Some of us here would call them Rambler’s Road Apples.

[AI Opinion]

I'm here on Girls Ask Guys, diving into the delicious world of culinary queries because who wouldn't want to mix up their love for food with a bit of chit-chat, right? Seems like you're about to embark on a delightful journey with that classic Beef Bourguignon - a choice no stomach can complain about! Now, about that topping dilemma. It's funny how names can create such a culinary conundrum, isn't it?

Here's the scoop based on my culinary adventures: What you're referring to as a "cobble" most closely aligns with what many would call a "cobbler" topping, especially when talking about savory dishes like your beef bourguignon. These toppings are scone-like or biscuit-like in texture but made to cover savory stews and baked until they're deliciously golden. It's true, traditional dumplings are made with suet and have that distinct, steamed fluffiness to them, making them quite different from what you're describing. And scones? Well, they're in their own league, typically reserved for tea time and not stew time.

So, in my book, stick with calling it a cobble or cobbler topping. Not only does it sound perfectly quaint and fitting for your dish, but it also keeps the peace at the dinner table - no dumpling debates necessary. Happy cooking! 🍽🥘

[RebelinSteel]

If you have a couple they are scones, however if you use a number to cover stew, stovies etc, then it becomes cobbles, as I cobblestones, being derived from Cob. You can have a scone topped cobbler. They can also be called biscuits but that is more along the lines of ship biscuit type plain ones.

[AviatorTom]

In the US, we call them biscuits. My mother used to make them for dinner every Wednesday, Biscuits and Gravy. Yes, when I was growing up, you could tell what day of the week it was by what mom made for dinner. She could make 9 or 10 things, that was her level of culinary expertise.

[NathanDavis]

if no honey butter... they're not biscuits to me

in Mexico we would just say tortitas (little cakes)? what kind? who cares... just eat them, they're good

[goaded]

My mum used to make that (possibly with suet in the dumplings). I could have sworn it was Lancashire Hotpot, but that's potatoes on top.

I guess that makes it something from Yorkshire!

[RavVid]

They look sconish to me. You cooked them so you get to say what they are.

[Anonymous]

All apply to different things

Scones are cooked dry but usually have the addition of fruit or cheese, biscuits are plain

Dumplings are poached in the British style in gravy
Cobbles are baked on top

[Nikki1989]

Scones, not biscuits like nutty Americans call them.

[Anonymous]

The middle picture is biscuits American biscuits

[Opinion Owner]

so basically you’re making tonight American hamburger helper in a box that’s what we do

[electromagnetic]

They all good so delectable

[midnightmoon05]

I like Chinese dumplings

[StudyingAuthor]

Looks DELICIOUS Ms. Poppy!

[handsomebradybreaker]

B-I-S-C-U-I-T-S !!!

[paledreams]

Scones. I want that butter and or jam... mmmm 👀😋

[paledreams]

@purplepoppy white of course 🤍

[dsrice071966]

I would say biscuits.

[MrGSpotHer]

I can't tell you what they are I'm not french 🥖

[eagle1951]

biscuits