My first attempt at home made biscuits
jimdeere
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Being of a technical mind I'm used to dealing in units of measure. According to mrsdeere, you throw all that out the window. Here's how it went:
Pour some flour into a big bowl.
How much flour?
Just pour some in.
Next drop in a hunk of Crisco.
How much?
Abthe size of a hen egg,
Now, add some butter milk.
Just pour it in, you can add more if needed.
Then, work the ingredients until the dough is consistent.
How long do you work it?
Until it looks like that.
Dump the dough onto a large cutting board or other hard surface. Pat it down sorta flat and cut your biscuits with a biscuit cutter. Use Crisco to grease a large iron skillet. Place your biscuits in the skillet, edges touching.
Cook on 475 until slightly brown on top.
How long?
Again, until slightly brown on top.
Here's how they turned out:
Comments
Teeth breakers?
And a little butter on top while still hot makes for some good eatin! Bob
Some cane syrup and some fatback and you would have a meal! Don
...They look good!...those would be good with some fried squirrel and squirrel gravy!..
If those are as good as they look, make up some sourdough starter and try that in your recipe next time...mmmmmmMMM!...
....I knew an old guy that was a genuine chuck wagon cook, yes, he had a chuck wagon and...cane syrup, Don 😁...wow, he made a breakfast with ham, eggs, biscuits,...apple cobbler, all baked in a dutch oven, OMG...I could have eat that all day!...keep up the biscuits!...
wow. Great job. I love to cook. I usually cook three nights a week for the family. My grandparents taught me how to cook.
Important question that has not been asked or answered.
Are the fit to eat?🙃
Mom always rubs a bit of oil on top of the biscuits before baking.
Wife just put a pan of pone bread, lazy, in the oven. I smell sausage frying and makings for gravy on the counter.
By the way they do look good.
Those look good! No salt? Baking powder?
Grease the pan with some possum fat so they wouldn’t stick, and make possum gravy with some chunks of shank, brother you got some eatin!
According to the boss, self rising flour has that in it.
As soon as you learn to not over-mix it, you'll be on the way to biscuit success.
Oh self rising flour, got it.
biscuits: 2 cups self rising flour, i stick cold butter, buttermilk. using a pastry cutter or grater cut the butter into the flour and stir until evenly distributed. add buttermilk slowly, gently mixing together. put mixture onto a floured surface and gently pat out to about 1 or 1 1/2 inch thick. cut biscuits out with a water glass to desired size. place in biscuit pan and "crowd" them close together, very important. as Mr. Rabb says dont overmix. as my mother would say "you have to be gentle with biscuits" dont over mix them, dont kneed them. and do crowd them together in the pan. very simple to do, only three ingredients. the art is in how you treat them.
I have a weakness for good biscuits 😋
but we also started buying pre mixed bags called " southern biscuit" we just just add the buttermilk and good to go
its just a bit faster than mixing it all up but taste great. and we still do the complete home made versions
I remember my mom and wife does it as her mom also did add a bit of crisco or butter on top before baking
3 cups flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
3 tsp baking powder
Tsp salt
1/2 stick butter
Work it all together with your fingers
Add milk to the right consistency, DON'T overwork it
Tear off palm size lumps and arrange on cookie sheet
Bake and enjoy. Best biscuits you'll ever have.
jimdeere, I think you finally have found your calling. I can see the big neon sign now - "Eat at Jim's". 😄
BTW, the reason you don't overwork biscuit dough is to avoid creating the gluten strings that make bread chewy. You don't want bread.
Boy howdy... just need some deer sausage gravy to put over them.
That brings back memories. Looks just like mom's biscuits. I remember mom hitting me in the head with one of her biscuits back in '59. Still got a little scar on my forehead just above my left eye.
Still haven't seen a reply on the actual taste @jimdeere ? did they hold together or crumble? They look good, but were they?
ETA: also anybody use bacon drippings instead of Crisco?
He will let you know when they get back from the emergency room...............
They may have been a choking hazard. Too dry without that sausage gravy. 😛
with enough sausage gravy they'll be fine,,,
I'd eat them
Texas1911DE wrote"
.those would be good with some fried squirrel and squirrel gravy!..
AMEN
Health food.
If I see biscuits like that and gravy in a eating place I ask if they have any fried squirrel.
Anybody seen Jim post since he made those biscuits?
I remember early in my marriage my wife made up some biscuits I said well I can use them as clay bird targets that was 42 plus years ago I thing I am still reusing some of them lol
But she got better at it and does a great job of making them now
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You're lucky you don't have an imprint of one of those biscuits still on your head. 😉
My wife now, made her first batch of biscuits about 60 years ago, she was about 9 or so years old.
Popped them out of the oven all pleased as could be until her three brothers took the out on the porch and had a few rounds of trapshooting. Needless to say they did not explode into dust like regular clay birds😲.
The important question has still not been answered, were they fit to eat?
Is JD still alive?🙃
Growing up, I learned how to make paste out of flour and water. The stuff would attach just about anything to anything when it set up.
The reason biscuits STICK TO YOUR RIBS like nothing else! Boy Howdy! 😁
Mom well for that matter a lot of the oldtimes in the family used it to put up wallpaper
sure took me a long time to find roasting my green coffee beans (sic) in a popcorn popper is EZ and excellent.
Add butter and apple jelly....oh my.
Looking for a grinder to splurge on.
owles #2......