Posted on 02/13/2020 4:27:29 PM PST by RoosterRedux
Not even close to the truth. My Georgia mom used good ol’ Gold Medal all purpose flour for her biscuits, and we lived all over the planet.
Up to this point in my life, I have not been a baker (but I love to cook). Since I ride a road bike many miles/hours a week, I can probably eat biscuits without blowing up like a balloon (maybe, not certain). Given that, I have been thinking about baking some good biscuits and this article caught my eye.
Carbs.
Cake flour.
My Mother made excellent biscuits. She was born in 1918 just South of the Alabama State Line.
She did one thing I have not seen anyone else do. She would put a teaspoon of salty meat grease on each one before placing it in the oven.
One of the few things that fast food chains do well is biscuits. Some of them are as good as Mothers”s.
Biscuits are the least of her problems.
Bojangles makes a pretty decent biscuit.
So, cake flour if you can’t get Lily?
I confess my biscuits are flatter than I would like but they are tender.
One hint; sift the flour. And use cold lard. Okay, two hints.
White Lily or Martha White self rising flour makes great biscuits. To make them even fluffier add a teaspoon of baking soda to react with the acidity of the buttermilk.
White Lily self-rising flour is available on Amazon. About $9.50 w/free delivery if you’re a Prime member.
Just about all of them make pretty good biscuits which is a little surprising to me.
When we were little, Mother used a wood stove. It did make the best bread and other baked items. Possibly because the cast iron heated very evenly.
IBTELP (In before the “Eat Lard” poster).
When the Brits bought Pillsbury, they fired all the Minnesota types that couldn't tell a biscuit from a cucumber. They developed te Grand. The world followed their lead
I don’t what kind of flour Mother used but I can remember a can of “Clabber Girl”, being on her shelf.
almost half of the country is too busy making trouble...
the other almost half of the country is too busy complaining about what the first almost half is doing...
the result is relying on fast food wondering what the hell happened...
Can’t? Just go to your frozen food section and you can select all the biscuits there are, all sorts.
It ain’t just biscuits they don’t do well in the north...
I was in Waukesha, Wisconsin and went into a grcery store and asked for country ham....
They said they didn’t carry that “brand”...I said it ain’t a brand, it’s type of ham...Salt cured...
They looked at me and after listening to me talk, one guy said “You aren’t from around here, are you?”
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