S. Worthen | Weblog

I'm from New Brunswick, as a preface (but my father is from New England, so some of his idioms may have crept into my speech :)

Those cracker with salt on top that you put in soup or have with peanut butter on them or whatever are called saltines, but I would also accept "Premium Plus crackers."

Biscuits are, as you say, more like an English muffin than a cookie. They're round, perhaps 2-3 inches in diameter, with straight sides, soft and doughy in texture, and they rise in the oven. Preferably consumed topped with butter and molasses.

Arrowroots are cookies, not biscuits. They're something like a digestive or a tea biscuit, though - a bit crisp but not hard, fairly bland and not overly sweet in flavour, good served with tea. Also often given to teething babies.