Well, catspaw, seems to me that the language got screwed up on the American side of the pond. The word "Biscuit" comes to us from the French and means "twice cooked" or "twice fired" from the old practice of a dual process of making "cookies". What you are describing is more of an oven scone. A wee bit of sugar would make them palatable. As for "grits" I have just no clue of anything you could add that would make them at all palatable.