Author Topic: BISCUIT RECIPE??? (Read 9943 times)

Oldshooter · « **Reply #60 on:** April 03, 2010, 05:25:30 AM »

Yep, It is gett'n deep!

AtlLaw · « **Reply #61 on:** April 03, 2010, 05:27:44 AM »

mechanic · « **Reply #62 on:** April 03, 2010, 11:12:20 AM »

Quote from: Dee on April 03, 2010, 03:35:39 AM

And my wife wonders why I wear boots while on the computer.

Forget the boots, go for the waders...........

powderman · « **Reply #63 on:** April 03, 2010, 02:12:12 PM »

Patty used 1/2 buttermilk and 1/2 unflavored yogurt today. The rise was perfect at 425 but she let them brown and the bottoms were a bit harder than I care for, excellent taste and texture, also used crisco instead of the lard. We love experimenting and next time the temp will remain at 425 but I wish they had been just a bit fluffier. Before we are done the perfect biskit will be born. I made the mistake of taking my shoes off before I read ATLAWS post. POWDERMAN.

Dee · « **Reply #64 on:** April 03, 2010, 02:17:52 PM »

Your not supposed to eat biscuits with your shoes on anyway. It's too genteel.

powderman · « **Reply #65 on:** April 03, 2010, 05:55:14 PM »

Quote from: Dee on April 03, 2010, 02:17:52 PM

Your not supposed to eat biscuits with your shoes on anyway. It's too genteel.

HEH. I know, but ATLAW was spreading it pretty thick. POWDERMAN.

Oldshooter · « **Reply #66 on:** April 03, 2010, 06:05:04 PM »

Dang P'man Ya'll eating a passel o biscuits lately, Seems like Everyday! Hey but what the heck if ya dont get tired of em I guess more the better!

Dee · « **Reply #67 on:** April 03, 2010, 06:09:10 PM »

I got on a lye soap makin kick once. I used a 5 gallon bucket of lard in about a week, a blender at a time. I've still got lye soap, and that was two years ago.

powderman · « **Reply #68 on:** April 03, 2010, 06:38:50 PM »

OS. Took forever to get Patty in the biscuit making mood, I aint knocking it.
DEE. I haven't made any lye soap for many years, since we rendered our own lard. Wish I had some more. Can't find the lewis lye around here anymore, and never tried dripping any. POWDERMAN.

Dee · « **Reply #69 on:** April 03, 2010, 11:28:36 PM »

Red Devil still made it last time I checked. I still have some. Lye soap is really better for your skin than store bought cause the glycerin has been taken out that naturally occurs during the chemical change.

Dee · « **Reply #70 on:** April 06, 2010, 05:19:03 AM »

Well, I have given my one recipe for biscuits, and have seen the gamut of different ingredients, but here is the biscuit I personally bake at home and it is a little healthier, and it is the one my wife and I prefer.

2 cups of flour (wheat or white), blend in 3 tablespoons of baking powder, then blend in 1/3 cup of olive oil, and then 1 cup of milk. This is a very wet dough, and one has to use flour to work it, as it is sticky once out of the bowl.
Again preheat the oven to 430 degrees, grease the cast iron skillet with "olive oil" and you get a nicely browned, fluffy biscuit, that is also much healthier.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #71 on:** April 11, 2010, 05:40:30 AM »

Okay, I went to the store and picked up a couple of things... Buttermilk and lard. Kathie saw the lard and went bonkers!

She only quieted down when I told her that one of the guys said it wasn't as full of bad stuff as Crisco was. I hope I got that right... $:-\$

Anyway, her mood changed when she saw the buttermilk! "I LOVE BUTTERMILK" she hollers and pours herself a glass.

Oh well, she left enough for ... BISQUITS!

Speaking of Kathie, she just called me away from the computer. She's sitting up in bed reading the Sunday paper.

There was a good reason though. She found an add for dutch ovens on sale!

I had told her I wanted to get one. Whata gal!

Guess where we're going after brunch Dan!

Dee · « **Reply #72 on:** April 11, 2010, 08:42:43 AM »

Popeyes to get some biscuits?

Get one with legs and a lip on the lid. Them is some neat cookin gadgets. Congrats.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #73 on:** April 11, 2010, 09:27:42 AM »

They came out pretty good. Not great, but pretty good. They didn't rise as much as I would like but were pretty light. Held together good too.

Guess I'll keep 'speramentin!

Dee · « **Reply #74 on:** April 11, 2010, 10:34:44 AM »

Quote from: AtlLaw on April 11, 2010, 09:27:42 AM

They came out pretty good. Not great, but pretty good. They didn't rise as much as I would like but were pretty light. Held together good too.

Guess I'll keep 'speramentin!

Are you sayin that you made biscuits Richard?

powderman · « **Reply #75 on:** April 11, 2010, 12:06:30 PM »

DEE. Your last recipe with the olive oil will be the next batch. She made a huge batch last Sat, a week ago, and we have 3 left in the freezer. They warm up real nice and fluffy, yet hold together very well.
We've learned so far that we prefer the crisco and buttermilk to the lard. adding the yogurt gave them a bit more flavor than plain buttermilk. Only 3 biscuits left so another batch will be needed soon. Not enough buttermilk left for biscuits, so I'll be FORCED to drink it. Love buttermilk. POWDERMAN.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #76 on:** April 11, 2010, 12:55:18 PM »

Quote from: Dee on April 11, 2010, 10:34:44 AM

you made biscuits

Sure did. For the first time in many years! And actually I think they were the best I ever made.

If I add more baking soda will they rise more?
Maybe I kneeded them to much...
But they still were lighter then the frozen variety.
I did detect a little flower taste on a couple of bites,
but they held together well when I buttered them up!
wish I'd bought some molasses...

The dutch oven on sale didn't have legs or a lip on the lid. I told Kathie the one I want has to have those and why. She looked at me like I was crazy, actually she does that a lot $:-\$ , and asked if I was going to start cooking like a cowboy now.

wimmins...

I felt like tellin her since she was retiring in a couple of months she can start doing the cooking herself! Thought better of it though. I like to eat... don't want to starve... she'd probably burn down the house... IF she could find the oven and stove... $:-\$

Dee · « **Reply #77 on:** April 11, 2010, 01:10:43 PM »

Richard I don't use "baking soda", I use baking "powder".
Molasses and buttered biscuits. It would be like a time machine. When I was a kid, we would go to my dad's mothers on Christmas. They just heated the part of the house they stayed in during the day with a big pot bellied stove.
We would have raw milk, butter biscuits, and molasses from the State commodities she got. I would cook on one side and freeze on the other until that ole wood stove got the rest of the house heated up every morning, and we'd sleep under so many home made quilts you couldn't hardly roll over.

Oldshooter · « **Reply #78 on:** April 11, 2010, 02:42:04 PM »

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I would cook on one side and freeze on the other until that ole wood stove got the rest of the house heated up every morning, and we'd sleep under so many home made quilts you couldn't hardly roll over.

Gosh that brings back some memories for me Dee! And those quilts were ice cube cold too, when you first got under em!

Dee · « **Reply #79 on:** April 11, 2010, 03:25:36 PM »

No doubt, and frost from your breath on the INSIDE of the window. Until we moved to town in about 1955, we went OUT to pee, and IN to eat. Now everybody goes IN to pee, and OUT to eat. Times theys a changin.

FourBee · « **Reply #80 on:** April 11, 2010, 04:28:48 PM »

Quote from: Oldshooter on April 11, 2010, 02:42:04 PM

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I would cook on one side and freeze on the other until that ole wood stove got the rest of the house heated up every morning, and we'd sleep under so many home made quilts you couldn't hardly roll over.

Gosh that brings back some memories for me Dee! And those quilts were ice cube cold too, when you first got under em!

Yeah! what memories. Especially that big ole feather bed. Us kids would almost disappear when we sunk down in it, and practically buried us with all those homemade quilts.

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Molasses and buttered biscuits.

Now there's all kinds of molasses, but the most nutritious is hard to find. Brer Rabbit "BlackStrap" all natural Unsulphured. Has more iron 25%, Magnesium 25%, Calcium 20% than any molasses I've found on the market. Man; now that's real molasses.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #81 on:** April 11, 2010, 04:39:56 PM »

Aw boys, $:-\$ we're showin out age...

It was a different time...

powderman · « **Reply #82 on:** April 11, 2010, 06:53:08 PM »

OKAY, I lied, there was enough buttermilk for more biscuits, but I drank it all. A hot buttered biscuit and a tall glass of buttermilk was supper, I dined like a king. I'd forgotten how much I liked buttermilk. We'll get more, after I get my car back, hope they get all the glass and feathers out of it.
We still use homemade quilts, my wife has made quite a few of them. I can still see my Grandma sitting at the quilting frame on her front porch with 4 or 5 other ladies sewing away. Grandma could point to a section on a lot of quilts and point out who had done it by the way it was stitched, they were all just a bit different. My 2 grandmothers made them a bit different too. On my Moms side of the family the quilts were shorter, because Moms family was shorter than my Dads Mom made, cause they were taller. Sorry, I got a bit off the subject. POWDERMAN.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #83 on:** April 12, 2010, 02:15:15 AM »

The ladies Quilting Bees, patchwork quilts and feather beds, buttermilk, sore-gum syrip and grandma's bisquits... nope, I'd say you were right on topic!

scootrd · « **Reply #84 on:** April 14, 2010, 12:21:31 PM »

Here was my last Batch over the weekend.

1 1/4 Cup. cake flour
3/4 Cup. self rising flour
3 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. confectioners' sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 Cup. butter, cut into small chunks
3/4 - 1 Cup. buttermilk

Kneeded the small chunks of butter into the batter
rolled out 1/2 inch thick

450 for 15 minutes.

Syrup , Butter N Biscuits MMMMMMMMM.....MMMMMMM.....GOOOOODDDDD

I have to stop visiting this thread!!!!!!!

mechanic · « **Reply #85 on:** April 14, 2010, 04:52:36 PM »

For well over 80 of her 97 years my beloved old grandma got up at 5:00 am, built a fire in the wood stove, and made a huge pan of biscuits. Even after the family of eight was just her and a grandson or two. Try sometimes to "sleep in" as teen agers are wont to do, when the smell of woodsmoke and biscuits fill the house. My stomach has awoken me more than once. In the evenings the chickens and dogs would fight over left over biscuits, if any were left over. There was still a good supply of grandpa's cane syrup left from when he and old Blackjack the mule were still alive to work the cane mill and syrup pots. You fella's done got me wistful....and hungry!

FourBee · « **Reply #86 on:** April 14, 2010, 05:29:00 PM »

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Posted by: mechanic There was still a good supply of grandpa's cane syrup left from when he and old Blackjack the mule were still alive to work the cane mill and syrup pots.

I remember seeing those old molasses mills some 55 years ago back in the hills of Arkansas. Instead of the syrup pots, they had large trays laid end to end under a long shed, and Honey Bees galore.

rockbilly · « **Reply #87 on:** April 20, 2010, 09:51:04 AM »

My, my...............what should have been said her is, "If BS were grave we would have some fine eating top go along with the great biscuits."

Dee. I hope them boots are high tops..................

powderman · « **Reply #88 on:** June 25, 2010, 05:54:26 PM »

One more question about biscuits. My wife made some great biscuits a couple of mornings ago, we experimented a lot and finally adopted a final recipe. She left them in the oven a bit longer this time, 15 minutes total. They turned out a beautiful golden brown with just a bit of crustiness outside, just the way I like them. We let them sit til afternoon, the survivors I mean. She put them in a ziplock bag overnite. Next morning they had lost that crustiness, softened up. They're still great but I wish they hadn't softened up. How do you guys store the survivors without softening the outsides?

She always makes dbl batches, biscuits and buttermilk is mighty good. POWDERMAN.

Dee · « **Reply #89 on:** June 25, 2010, 05:59:12 PM »

My wife will put them on a plate and put'em in the micro wave (she thinks it's a bread box). Next mornin she'll heat'em up in the micro wave.