Homemade biscuits

[whirlcool]

There is nothing like waking up to the smell of fresh biscuits baking in the oven.
I love biscuits and gravy. First had it when I went to college in Louisiana. Have a plate after coming home from partying and you'll wake up feeling better than you should. Tip from my younger days.
We usually use Pillsbury Grands, but sometimes we bake our own.
In fact reading this thread made me go make a plate!

 

[mixfinder]

Yankee Biscuits

Tall, grand and fluffy.

In the mixer bowl combine
2 cups flour
1 tablspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup crisco
Crumble together on low speed.

For scones, increase sugar to 1/4 cup and replace milk with cream.

In a small bowl whisk together
2/3 cup milk
2 eggs

Add wet ingredients to dry and mix on low just to combine. Place dough on floured surface and pat to 1 in thickness. Cut into rounds and placed on ungreased baking sheet. For crisper biscuits, place so they don't touch. For softer biscuits, put in a 9X9 pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 - 18 minutes.

 

[circlew]

MaryB's

For store bought biscuits, try MaryB's. They are quite good for a frozen product. They're widely available in the South, and at Wal-Mart in other areas (about the only reason I set foot in WM).

 

[dynaflow]

norgeguy

Ive had Hans biscuits they r to die for as well as his sweet tea

 

[butch-innj]

Cooks Illustrated magazine from 2004........

has this recipe that I tried and love......

2 cups of all purpose flour
1 tablespoon double acting baking powder
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter cut into 1/4" cubes
1 1/2 cups cold buttermilk, preferably low fat

Set oven rack in the middle position and turn the oven to
500 degrees.
Spray a 9-inch round cake pan with cooking spray and set aside.

Spray the inside AND out of a 1/4 cup measuring cup with the cooking spray and set aside.

In a food processor, pulse flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and baking soda to combine, about 6 1-second pulses. Scatter butter cubes evenly over the dry ingredients, pulse until the mixture resembles course cornmeal. Transfer the mixture to a medium size bowl. Add buttermilk and stir until its just incorporated. (dough will be very wet and slightly lumpy)

Using the 1/4 cup measuring cup and working quickly, scoop level amount of dough and drop it onto a heavily floured baking sheet. If dough sticks to the measuring cup, pull it off with a spoon. Repeat with the remaining dough until you have 12 evenly sized balls of dough on the baking sheet.
Dust the tops of each one with flour.
With floured hands, gently pick up each dough ball and cover with flour. Shaping each one into a rough ball. Shake off excess flour and place into the prepared cake pan. Repeat this procedure with each dough ball. You should be able to get 9 balls around the edge of the pan and 3 in the middle.
Brush the dough balls with hot melted butter.
Do not flatten them.
Bake for 5 minutes at 500 degrees, reduce the oven temp to 450 and bake for about 15 minutes more until the tops of the biscuits are deep golden brown.
Cool in the pan for 2 minutes, invert onto a clean kitchen towel and then turn right side up.
Break apart and serve.

(Mine didn't start to rise until about the last 5 minutes of baking)

So far, these are the best I've made.