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Mo bettah buttahmilk biscuits.
Make buttermilk for the wife now and then, but she asked me to back off as she thought she was gaining weight from that and my banana bread.
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Georgia Grandma recipe:
2 Cups SIFTED self rising flour
1cup buttermilk
1/2 cups lard
mixed and hand tossed into ball (with floured hand) dropped to buttered cookie sheet or cast iron skillet and knuckle pressed down.
My Mother used to make great tasting biscuits. I don’t remember exactly how she made them but she did use buttermilk and would put a spoonful of grease on each one before baking them.
I do know the recipe was simple.
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Don’t know, but nothing beats the yeast rolls my husband’s grandmother would make. She was a farmer’s wife who spent most of her adult life in the kitchen cooking food for hired hands. Man, could that woman cook. And bake. And fry.
There was a chicken restaurant, I can’t recall if it was Bojangles or Popeyes in Chesterfield, VA which had probably the best biscuits I ever ate.
I think it was Bojangles but could be wrong. Their chicken was also very tasty.
Lard & buttermilk.
Of course, any old hockey puck hot from the oven will taste fantastic with sweet cream butter and fresh, raw honey.
My great-aunt out on the high plains made the best biscuits! I remember them well.
Her kids were raised on them out in the middle of nowhere near Gladstone NM.
If they went to town, 40 miles away, the kids often hoped they would stay late. If they did, there would not be time to make biscuits at home, so they would buy some store bought white bread which the kids thought was great.
Now my aunt is gone. Several of her kids, my aunts and uncles, have said they wished they had one of their momma’s biscuits many a time.
I know how she made them, and often make them here.
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When we were little, Mother used a wood cook stove. She told me that it actually cooked better than either gas or electric. I have since heard the same thing and the reason was that the cast iron stove heated more evenly.
Not sure if there were other reasons but her biscuits were good enough to eat by themself but were even better with butter and/or syrup.