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Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:11 amby aunt betty
Start with a bowl and two cups of flour, a teaspoon of salt, teaspoon of sugar, and a tablespoon of baking powder.
Measure the salt very carefully, this is important.
The rest...not so important but be close at least. The salt has to be right...its a chemistry thing.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:13 amby aunt betty
Next you "cut" in five tablespoons of lard. Use butter if you want.
Use two knives if you don't have this tool.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:14 amby aunt betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:18 amby aunt betty
Before
After
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:20 amby aunt betty
You can get rough on it while cutting in the lard but after that THINK GENTLE LOVING THOUGHTS.
NO kneading, rolling, etc.
Gentle...with love.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:22 amby aunt betty
Make a bowl in the bowl. Add milk. And gently stir with wooden spoon.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:24 amby aunt betty
Gentle. Just barely get the flour wet.
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:30 amby aunt betty
Now use your hands to gently start forming a round shape. Did I say gently? Can not stress that enough!
That's about right. Use your cutter to gauge the circle.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:35 amby aunt betty
I use the scraps to make Milo's .
He loves daddy's biscuits.
The ones on the left are his.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:35 amby aunt betty
Bake for 12 minutes @ 425.
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:57 amby aunt betty
O yeah!
Honey, jelly...mmmm
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:01 amby aunt betty
The black raspberry jelly from July is like summertime in a jar.
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:07 amby assateague
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:16 amby aunt betty
Milo approved.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:19 amby aunt betty
Something about biscuits for breakfast...
Gets the body ready for the days struggles and you come out swinging.
I can pound a lotta nails after a biscuit breakfast.
75 pounds of 16's.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:05 pmby (MT)Montanafowler
i'll admit that i too have a tub of mexican lard in my cabinet
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:06 pmby (MT)Montanafowler
aunt betty wrote:75 pounds of 16's.
what the fuck are you building, a god damn piano!?
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:35 pmby rebelp74
More like a bouncing betty
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:48 pmby aunt betty
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:aunt betty wrote:75 pounds of 16's.
what the fuck are you building, a god damn piano!?
I was a framer when Bostich had not yet invented the nail gun. Routinely drove 3000 16d cc nails in an 8-hour day.
Can still pound a nail into spf in two hits every time.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:51 pmby (MT)Montanafowler
aunt betty wrote:(MT)Montanafowler wrote:aunt betty wrote:75 pounds of 16's.
what the fuck are you building, a god damn piano!?
I was a framer when Bostich had not yet invented the nail gun. Routinely drove 3000 16d cc nails in an 8-hour day.
Can still pound a nail into spf in two hits every time.
i've never used a nail gun, always built forms with 16s. i can slug a nail pretty good, but i'm not a carpenter. i would like to pick up a Vaughan 21 oz framer though, to use when i don't need the blue steel hammer of destruction.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:30 amby aunt betty
Went to get milk this morning for biscuits. Decided wtf, try some buttermilk. Will need the white to make sausage gravy.
Biscuits recipe just got even better. Use buttermilk. Mmmm.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:36 amby assateague
If you take some leftover buttermilk, mix it 1/3 buttermilk to 2/3 regular milk, shake it up, and set it in the fridge, in about a week you will have buttermilk. Then just keep doing this, and you'll never have to buy it again.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:36 pmby jehler
assateague wrote:If you take some leftover buttermilk, mix it 1/3 buttermilk to 2/3 regular milk, shake it up, and set it in the fridge, in about a week you will have buttermilk. Then just keep doing this, and you'll never have to buy it again.
thats ludicrous, it will spoil
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:22 pmby aunt betty
ATs biscuits are sour...
No...bitter.
It can't be both.
Acids are sour.
Bases are bitter.
So he played it off...sour, bitter, same thing.
I call bullshit.
He probably used his home made buttermilk stretching ways...and messed up.
So what brand baking powder makes biscuits sour AT?
Sure as hell ain't this.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:36 pmby assateague
Betty's angry now.
But it is Paula Dean's fault.
Her recipe, right?
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Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:37 pmby assateague
Calumet I think. The Indian kind.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:53 pmby aunt betty
Start googling some biscuit recipes. I did and they are all the same recipe. (Pretty much)
That's why I'm kinda upset about you not being able to make biscuits.
I just don't see how you could come out with sour AND bitter ones.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:05 pmby 3legged_lab
aunt betty wrote:Start googling some biscuit recipes. I did and they are all the same recipe. (Pretty much)
That's why I'm kinda upset about you not being able to make biscuits.
I just don't see how you could come out with sour AND bitter ones.
Its caused by the fromunda cheese.
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:12 pmby Feelin' Fowl
assateague wrote:Betty's angry now.
But it is Paula Dean's fault.
Her recipe, right?
Haiku'd you!
Re: Biscuits by betty
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Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:19 pmby aunt betty
Feelin' Fowl wrote:assateague wrote:Betty's angry now.
But it is Paula Dean's fault.
Her recipe, right?
Haiku'd you!
:D
