Posted on 05/14/2025 4:27:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
NATIONAL BUTTERMILK BISCUIT DAY | May 14
May 14 ushers in National Buttermilk Biscuit Day to celebrate this high-rising breakfast staple. Whether you enjoy them with biscuits and gravy or with butter and honey, National Buttermilk Biscuit day is day to enjoy a food holiday easily incorporated into all of your meals today!
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Biscuits are made using baking powder or baking soda as a leavening agent rather than yeast. A typical buttermilk biscuit recipe contains flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, and buttermilk. They are often referred to as a “quick bread,” indicating they do not need time to rise before baking. While being made, the dough is beaten and folded to incorporate air, which expands while baking, causing the biscuit to rise.
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Before the American Civil War, biscuits emerged as an inexpensive addition to meals. This sturdier bread product soon became popular as people realized it absorbed the gravy on their plate better than plain bread. Soon a new family favorite, biscuits, and gravy, was created.
Alexander P. Ashbourne patented the first biscuit cutter in 1875.
Supermarkets offer canned biscuits that are refrigerated until ready to be baked. In 1931, Ballard and Ballard patented these refrigerator biscuits.
Biscuits have been a staple of the Southern United States cuisine for many years and are often made with buttermilk. Traditionally served as a side dish with butter, they are also served at breakfast with molasses, light sugarcane syrup, maple syrup, sorghum syrup, honey, jam, or jelly, or as a breakfast sandwich.
10 WAYS TO CELEBRATE BUTTERMILK BISCUIT DAY
Share your favorite recipes and biscuit combinations. Aside from biscuits and gravy, give these biscuit ideas a try:
Make biscuit breakfast sandwiches with eggs and cheese.
Serve biscuits with your favorite soup. It's better than dumplings!
Use biscuit dough to make pizza crust. Partially bake the dough before adding toppings.
Warm biscuits with butter and jelly satisfy every time.
Serve biscuits with pork chops, pork loins, or pulled pork.
BBQ and biscuits hit the spot, too. They soak up the juices quite well.
Whenever you have fresh fish, serve homemade biscuits. Catfish and biscuits are particularly delicious.
Who likes tomato sandwiches during the summer? When fresh tomatoes ripen on the vine, slice them up while they're warm. Add a little bit of mayonnaise and sprinkle of salt and sandwich them between two warm biscuits.
Don't forget dessert. Biscuits make an excellent base for strawberry shortcakes. Just add a little sugar to your dough to sweeten it. You'll make up the rest of the sweetness with the strawberries and whipped cream.
Use #ButtermilkBiscuitDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL BUTTERMILK BISCUIT DAY HISTORY
Within our research, we were unable to identify the creator of National Buttermilk Biscuit Day.
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Notable Birthdays for May 14
Ed Ricketts (1897-1948) - Marine biologist who conducted pioneering studies of intertidal ecology (organisms found in high/low tides).
Zutty Singleton (1898-1975) - Jazz drummer for Louis Armstrong's Hot Five.
Herbert Morrison (1905-1989) - Radio journalist radio who recorded a dramatic report of the Hindenburg disaster.
John Hope (1919-2002) - Meteorologist who was a hurricane expert.
Brad Anderson (1924-2015) - Cartoonist who created the loveable dog Marmaduke.
Sophie Kurys (1925-2013) - Second basewoman in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Ethel Johnson (1935-2018) - The first black female champion of professional wrestling.
George Lucas (1944-Still Living) - Creator of Star Wars.
Mark Zuckerberg (1984-Still Living) - Co-founder of Facebook.
Memorable Events for May 14
1787 - Delegates gather to draw up the Constitution of the United States.
1800 - The Federal government moves from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
1853 - Gail Borden patents his process for condensed milk.
1897 - The State Theatre opens in Washington, Iowa (oldest continuously operating movie theater in the world.
1913 - The Rockefeller Foundation begins operation.
1942 - The U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms.
1973 - The Supreme Court approves equal rights to females in the military.
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Hot Buttermilk Biscuit Ping!................
Mmmm.... Biscuits and Gravy.
SOS on an aluminum tray.
Biscuit Breakfast Sandwich
Layer on halved buttermilk biscuit, cooked sausage patty, lge egg
scrambled w/ K/salt in tsp unsalted butter, drizzle w/ tsp hot honey.
My mom always made Pillsbury biscuits and they were great!
Biscuits! Even we Yankees like Biscuits!
There was a TV series originally on PBS (Yeah, don’t get your undies in a bunch!) called, ‘How She Rolls’ about a woman who took her mother’s biscuit recipe and turned it into a gazillion-dollar enterprise.
As a Retail Manager for 18 years, it was fascinating to me. Loved all the business details, how they coped when Deep State tried to shut down THE WORLD with CovidBS-19, how she expanded her business, how TIRING it all was, etc.
I found it well worth the watch.
You Tube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6dz1KqU9N4
(The direct PBS link is nothing but, ‘Orange Man Bad! He’s taking our slush-funding propaganda-promoting money away from us!’ So I’m sparing you all that!)
Luv me some biscuits...
Mmmmmmm.
Actually, when’s the next ice cream related day. Aw, who am I kidding, every day is ice cream day...
Buttermilk biscuits, salad, ribeye and tater wedges!
I remember my grandmother (from Virginia) making strawberry shortcake with her from scratch buttermilk biscuits - no recipe, of course, and she used her forearm to test the temperature of the oven. They came out perfect every time.
To this day, strawberry short cake made with biscuits is the only way I’ll have it.
In Europe, a ‘biscuit’ is a cookie.................
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