Biscuits by betty

[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.

[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.

[aunt betty]

AT calls it "manteca".

[aunt betty]

Before
After

[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.

[aunt betty]

Make a bowl in the bowl. Add milk. And gently stir with wooden spoon.

[aunt betty]

Gentle. Just barely get the flour wet.

[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.

[aunt betty]

I use the scraps to make Milo's .
He loves daddy's biscuits.
The ones on the left are his.

[aunt betty]

Bake for 12 minutes @ 425.

[aunt betty]

O yeah!
Honey, jelly...mmmm

[aunt betty]

The black raspberry jelly from July is like summertime in a jar.

[assateague]

AT calls it "manteca".

[aunt betty]

Milo approved.

[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.

[(MT)Montanafowler]

AT calls it "manteca".

i'll admit that i too have a tub of mexican lard in my cabinet

[(MT)Montanafowler]

75 pounds of 16's.

what the fuck are you building, a god damn piano!?

[rebelp74]

More like a bouncing betty

[aunt betty]

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.

[(MT)Montanafowler]

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.

[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.

[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.

[jehler]

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

[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.

[assateague]

Betty's angry now.
But it is Paula Dean's fault.
Her recipe, right?

[assateague]

Calumet I think. The Indian kind.

[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.

[3legged_lab]

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.

[Feelin' Fowl]

Betty's angry now.
But it is Paula Dean's fault.
Her recipe, right?

Haiku'd you!

[aunt betty]

Betty's angry now.
But it is Paula Dean's fault.
Her recipe, right?

Haiku'd you!

:D