shortcake
A rolled biscuit is generally made by rolling the dough out on a surface and then cutting it into shape, a drop biscuit is made by spooning dough into a pan at the desired location.
Yes. Biscuits are made of bread dough. This is a carbohydrate/starch.
Your question has two different answers. A drop biscuit is fluffier by nature because the dough isn't handled or "worked" as much. The rolled biscuit will tend to be flakier because of the process of rolling and cutting, just makes a biscuit flakier.
Marzipan
Many different confections are made with sugar and almonds. "Sweetmeat" is a generic term for candies, cakes, cookies, etc.
Halma
Choke biscuits are made by 'choking' off pieces of dough rather than rolling it and cutting with a biscuit cutter The choked pieces are then rounded and dropped onto a cookie sheet or biscuit pan and baked.
tudor roundels are made for making sweetmeat to eat during a banquet.
the good kind
biscuit can't be made without maida flour, because it is high in protein than atta. gluten is the protein and it is important to make the dough. Though it is low in fiber contain than atta flour , it gives crispness to the biscuit and also be stored for long term than atta flour.
biscuit is made from wheat
Hardtack Is a hard bread or cracker fed to soldiers in the Civil War.