Cooking & Baking
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Fresh, made from scratch, right out of the oven. What an indulgence!

I can smell the warm buttery scent from here!
Permanut
(7,092 posts)Oh, I remember that smell, and that was 70 years ago.
MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)Years back Martha had a lady on her show making biscuits. Pour a small bag of self-rising flour into a bowl. Add buttermilk into a well that you make. Then Crisco into that cold buttermilk and pinch with fingers until pea size. Then gather enough flour to make a ball. Roll out and cut and bake. Save flour in frig for next batch. They are good. Check it out.
Marthe48
(20,631 posts)then add shortening, and mix till mealy. Then add milk and stir just till blended. I melt butter in the pan, and then drop the dough into the butter. Bake at 425 for 16-18 minutes. I've used buttermilk, almond milk, cream, milk or a combination of them.
I got the recipe from an old cookbook I've had forever
Warpy
(113,392 posts)Pastry doughs of various descriptions are about all I used mine for., nothing else justified the cleanup.
Love my own shortbread, biscuits, pie crusts. Haven't made any of them since I moved and don't have room for appliances.
Marthe48
(20,631 posts)I used a cup of flour, and got 8 biscuits. Bowl, fork, pastry blender, pan. I like doing the dough mixing by hand, puts a little of me into the batch
TeamProg
(6,630 posts)Marthe48
(20,631 posts)Not better, I know. I don't think I've made flour biscuits for over 6 months. For the 2 years before that, I made coconut flour biscuits, but I didn't want to use that many eggs.

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