The Joys Of Cowboy Style Home Made Biscuits

[FAX]

2 Cups Flour
1 Tsp Salt
4 Tsp Baking Powder
1 Heaping Tbs Shortening
Sufficient Milk To Make Soft Dough (do not knead much)

Cut out Biscuits, Bake at 425 until a light, golden brown on their little tops. (It's a good idea not to seperate them on the baking sheet but, rather, keep them touching so they rise up - not sideways - and keeps them from getting lonely.)

Serve with butter, honey/strawberry jam.

Just made this marvelous concoction and I can tell you they are awesome.

FAX

[RJ]

Don't knead much or don't need much? Or both?

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

Why are you laughing at me, Apricot Preserves Boy?

[RJ]

FAX, when you make these at home, as opposed to over a campfire, do you use the cast iron dutch oven or a baking sheet?

My granny made scratch biscuits almost every morning of her life up into her seventies. I remember watching her do it, I think she could have made them blindfolded. She never measured, just threw stuff together and next thing you knew you were eating biscuits. Usually with sausage and eggs and gravy, always with tomatoes on the side in the summer. Good times.

[FAX]

Originally Posted by Saggysack

I'll take that back. I do like flaky biscuits but those dense, cottonmouth, flour flavored dough puffs called biscuits, I'll pass.

I am confident that you would like these biscuits, Mr. Saggysack. On my last one, I switched over from strawberry jam. For the top half, I elected to go with sweet creamery butter and clover honey. For the bottom half, I chose butter and a dollup of Welch's grape jelly. I challenge any man with a brainpan and more than one or two functioning taste buds to try either half and not want like 10 more biscuits like right friggin' now.

FAX

[seclark]

Originally Posted by RJ

FAX, when you make these at home, as opposed to over a campfire, do you use the cast iron dutch oven or a baking sheet?

My granny made scratch biscuits almost every morning of her life up into her seventies. I remember watching her do it, I think she could have made them blindfolded. She never measured, just threw stuff together and next thing you knew you were eating biscuits. Usually with sausage and eggs and gravy, always with tomatoes on the side in the summer. Good times.

my granny'd toss in some cinnamon and raisins. at least i think they were raisins. she also raised rabbits.
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[RJ]

Originally Posted by seclark

my granny'd toss in some cinnamon and raisins. at least i think they were raisins. she also raised rabbits.
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There are some things we are better off not knowing.

[FAX]

Originally Posted by RJ

FAX, when you make these at home, as opposed to over a campfire, do you use the cast iron dutch oven or a baking sheet?

My granny made scratch biscuits almost every morning of her life up into her seventies. I remember watching her do it, I think she could have made them blindfolded. She never measured, just threw stuff together and next thing you knew you were eating biscuits. Usually with sausage and eggs and gravy, always with tomatoes on the side in the summer. Good times.

I've done both, Mr. RJ, and perceive no significant difference between the two methods in terms of taste, consistency, and/or overall biscuit behavior. These, I just put on a cookie sheet thing. The trick to that is that you need to smush them up against each other before you bake them - not set them on the sheet with space between them. That way, when they cook, they rise up instead of spreading out!!!

FAX

[stumppy]

Damn you FAX, damn you to hell.


My oven isn't working.

[FAX]

What a wacky granny you had, Mr. seclark. I'll have to try that someday. I'll bet there are lots of variations you could come up with ... cheese biscuits ... cheddar cheese biscuits ... jalapeno cheese biscuits ... the list could go on and on ...

To be honest, I have been hesitant to mess around with the recipe too much, though. When you're thousands of miles from home and there's nobody around who loves you and the night is cold and your best friend is a bottle of Boone's Farm and a tire iron, a traditional, cowboy biscuit is just what the doctor ordered. Accept no substitutes.

FAX

[seclark]

Originally Posted by FAX

What a wacky granny you had, Mr. seclark. I'll have to try that someday. I'll bet there are lots of variations you could come up with ... cheese biscuits ... cheddar cheese biscuits ... jalapeno cheese biscuits ... the list could go on and on ...

To be honest, I have been hesitant to mess around with the recipe too much, though. When you're thousands of miles from home and there's nobody around who loves you and the night is cold and your best friend is a bottle of Boone's Farm and a tire iron, a traditional, cowboy biscuit is just what the doctor ordered. Accept no substitutes.

FAX

understood...
i like my burgers plain.
no sauce on my pizza
no beans in my chili
however, i will jam a wedge of lemon in my 40 ouncer.
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[Pennywise]

Originally Posted by seclark

my granny'd toss in some cinnamon and raisins. at least i think they were raisins. she also raised rabbits.
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The rabbits were probably for fertilizing her weed crop.

[RJ]

Originally Posted by FAX

When you're thousands of miles from home and there's nobody around who loves you and the night is cold and your best friend is a bottle of Boone's Farm and a tire iron, a traditional, cowboy biscuit is just what the doctor ordered. Accept no substitutes.
FAX

Sometimes a man has to lose himself before he can find anything.

I think that's from a movie but I don't recall which one.

[Baby Lee]

We're of a southern biscuit lineage. Not to disparage the delicious cowboy biscuit.

Pretty much the same, 'cept the shortening is halved and butter replaces the other half and the milk is buttermilk.

And yes, you mix it just enough that the ingedients are aware of each other's existence.

Actually, we sift the dry together, and put the wet in with a few cursory strokes, and make sure those wet ingredients go in cold.



Oh, and butter and molasses is a suitable as any topping, plus you can dredge your sausage links through the molasses.

[seclark]

Originally Posted by Pennywise

The rabbits were probably for fertilizing her weed crop.

i remember her sitting on the front porch, watching the sun go down and rolling a smoke(true). she did grow her own tobacco.
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[RJ]

Originally Posted by seclark

i remember her sitting on the front porch, watching the sun go down and rolling a smoke(true). she did grow her own tobacco.
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Heh, mine liked snuff. Guess it didn't hurt her any, she lived to be 95.