An American biscuit (aka "biskit") is a soft roll (does "roll" have a separate meaning in the UK?) about 2/3 the size of a man's fist. It is ideally used as a delivery medium for home-made jelly/jam or butter (real butter, no substitutes please). It is unfortunately often served with greyish white gravy, allegedly chicken flavored.

BTW, nobody has yet noted that the real country ham has to be catspaw.