Hello, Hello! Today we are going to explore the wild and crazy world of (cue the scary music) biscuits. Now, I am a southern girl. I was born in the south but raised all over the country. It's a long story and needs to be played with piano music in the background and I don't know how to add that to my blog, so we will just skip that part, The important part is that I never learned to make biscuits, shocking but true. It is also important that you know I adore my husband, almost as much as he adores biscuits. With all that adoration going around you would think I would get up at the crack of dawn and make my dearly loved husband biscuits. Yeah, right! I can barely open the package of frozen biscuits and pop them in the oven in the morning. I can barely find the oven. Actors are not, on the whole morning people, even if they are not doing a production. Thus lies my dilemma. Frozen biscuits are expensive. A bag of 12 costs around $4.00. That's about $.400.00 a year for my family. I have a big family.
I decided to make my own biscuits. That Sister What ever her name is doesn't look any smarter than I do. If she can do it so can I. I guess she is smarter than she looks. Making biscuits is hard until you get the hang of it. I tried several different recipes to no avail. Don't look at my kitchen right now, it's not a pretty sight. One batch I made was supposed to be especially for freezing and then cooking. My grandson loved them. He is 7 months old and teething. He could gnaw on that thing all day and it wouldn't melt. I finally found a recipe that worked. I will include it at the end of this blog. It was very easy and very tasty. It even got a thumbs up from my picky daughter. I made the recipe but doubled it and then I made another batch and doubled it. It yielded 24 biscuits. I put them on a cookie sheet covered in foil to freeze them and then placed them all, except for my test biscuits, in a plastic disposable storage bag made especially for frozen foods. However, I won't throw it away. I will just wash and refill. The recipe calls for the biscuits to cook 10-13 minutes. It took ten in my oven for the non frozen biscuits and 15 for the frozen biscuits. You may know if your oven cooks fast or slow and can adjust the time. If not, just keep an eye on them. By making and freezing my biscuits it cost me $.81 for 12 biscuits. Over a year that would total to $121.00. I think I'll do this again. This months savings with a previous savings of $20.25 is (cue the drum roll) $25.54. This is only day three folks. So, in the morning while my husband is showering, I'll stumble into the kitchen, open my freezer and take out a two biscuits. I'll pop them in the oven and throw some flour on my face like the lady in the rice krispy treats commercial. Then I'll be rewarded with a big kiss from my husband for working so hard. Then I'll tell him "I haven't even had my coffee yet. Leave me alone" :P Here is the recipe:
1 and 1/2 cups all- purpose flour
1 and 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
2/3 cup milk
1/3 cup vegetable shortening
Heat the oven to 426 degrees F.
Sift together flour, salt, sugar and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Make a well in the flour mix and add the milk. Add shortening and begin kneading with hands (to cut in) the shortening and flour the milk until thoroughly mixed. Turn onto floured board and kneed gently 6 to 8 times. Pat dough to 1/2- inch thickness. Cut into biscuits. Place on baking sheet and brown in over 10-13 minutes.
This will make 6 biscuits.
If you are making to freeze see above in the post. Happy Baking.
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