Jerry Clower, an American original!
I cook, sew, raise a garden, can and freeze produce, can bake a cake and make pretty good corn bread.
The one thing I can NOT do is bake biscuits. Biscuits are my kryptonite.
My momma tried for years to help me bake biscuits. Every time I tried she gave me a look like I had brought something smelly and disgusting from the outhouse.
My wife tried for years to help me bake biscuits. Every attempt made her look at me like I brought something smelly and disgusting from the bathroom.
I gave up.
Since my wife passed its been the canned variety for me.
And I love Kipling. :)
My wife’s first biscuits after we were married 40+ years ago were like hockey pucks, only white................