We need to make some biscuits, take close-up photos and post them for our Australian friend. However, a lot gets lost in translation without the aroma....
Laundress and the Fried Chicken
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I think my mom's collard greens are the best. All my friends say's so. She also makes the best cornbread dressing and mac and cheese. Those are the foods I grew up on. In the greens try a smoked ham hock or if u don't like pork try a smoked turkey wing.
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Now Laundress..I said a good comparison, not exactly like a biscuit. Now girl..the day my biscuits come out like a croissant..well I don't know what I'll do. Your discrip following was correct. Thanks for giving the link to White Lilly Corp.
Hey Jet..that Ozark Mtn sounds kinda good. The cast iron skillet is a must for frying chicken. I have in a pinch used an electric skillet.
Laundress..I am not familiar with Murray's..sounds like a nice change from the others. I do still find that the brine is nice and hen the buttermilk soak is another tenderizer.
Frigilux!..I agree...maybe we could FedEx him a few..with my luck in the shipping department, they would end up damaged!
Washaholic..nothing like those greens cooked with a hock..yum!!
Hey Jet..that Ozark Mtn sounds kinda good. The cast iron skillet is a must for frying chicken. I have in a pinch used an electric skillet.
Laundress..I am not familiar with Murray's..sounds like a nice change from the others. I do still find that the brine is nice and hen the buttermilk soak is another tenderizer.
Frigilux!..I agree...maybe we could FedEx him a few..with my luck in the shipping department, they would end up damaged!
Washaholic..nothing like those greens cooked with a hock..yum!!
That makes more sense 
So a biscuit is almost a Scone in Appearence anyway. The ingredient list is pretty close as well. Are scones more of a Northern US thing and Biscuits a Southern US thing?
So a biscuit is almost a Scone in Appearence anyway. The ingredient list is pretty close as well. Are scones more of a Northern US thing and Biscuits a Southern US thing?
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In my part of the country:
Fried chicken comes courtesy of Banquet
Biscuits are neatly packed in paper tubes
Jiffy cornbread is used to make stuffing (not often)
Macaroni and cheese is a one-dish meal
Collard greens are those things in the cans that nobody buys, even when they've been marked down to a 15 cents
In my part of the country:
Fried chicken comes courtesy of Banquet
Biscuits are neatly packed in paper tubes
Jiffy cornbread is used to make stuffing (not often)
Macaroni and cheese is a one-dish meal
Collard greens are those things in the cans that nobody buys, even when they've been marked down to a 15 cents
Biscuits are cookies here. I did a Google picture search, here's the result.
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biscuits and Mac & cheese
For you Oz folks, biscuits come in different varities here.
The boxed Mac and cheese comes two ways, one where the "cheese" is dry and comes in a packet and is fairly awful, and the other way the cheese is liquid and comes in a can. This type is much more tolerable if one is in a hurry. There frozen varieties available, too, that beat out both of the boxed types
Link is to Pillsbury, a leading maker of the refrigerated type of biscuits
For you Oz folks, biscuits come in different varities here.
The boxed Mac and cheese comes two ways, one where the "cheese" is dry and comes in a packet and is fairly awful, and the other way the cheese is liquid and comes in a can. This type is much more tolerable if one is in a hurry. There frozen varieties available, too, that beat out both of the boxed types
Link is to Pillsbury, a leading maker of the refrigerated type of biscuits
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and collard grrens
must be FRESH, not canned. Actualy, Collards are the only type of greens I like.
must be FRESH, not canned. Actualy, Collards are the only type of greens I like.
veg-o-matic
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I think scones came to this country courtesy chichi coffee shops like Starbucks, etc. Not a native American food at all.
Those biscuits in a can aren't proper biscuits at all. They're good, they're just not real biscuits. Dunno exactly how to describe em.
Nat, get yourself a copy of Joy of Cooking and make yourself a batch of biscuits! That's the best way to find out what they're really like. Split, butter, and drizzle on the honey. Mmmmmm. Take pics.
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Those biscuits in a can aren't proper biscuits at all. They're good, they're just not real biscuits. Dunno exactly how to describe em.
Nat, get yourself a copy of Joy of Cooking and make yourself a batch of biscuits! That's the best way to find out what they're really like. Split, butter, and drizzle on the honey. Mmmmmm. Take pics.
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Scones are a british thing, mom and granny used to eat them all the time, I always thought they tasted like flour bricks regardless of putting jam on them. Same thing with crumpets.yuk.
BTW with all my English relatives they all pronounce scone as scawn rhymes with pawn,, where here people say scown rhyming with cone.
BTW with all my English relatives they all pronounce scone as scawn rhymes with pawn,, where here people say scown rhyming with cone.
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Does anyone else make giblet gravy for Thanksgiving? I've always had it and always made it. Most people from this state have never heard of it. Which I find odd since I grew up here.It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without it!
Giblet gravy is a must on Thanksgiving! Wouldn't be the same without.
Scones:
Have to agree with you Pete, they are kind of "hard" and certianly nothing like biscuts. Even with clotted cream or jam, still rather like eating a large hunk of fruit cake.
Pillsbury biscuts,cresent rolls and the like can be "ok" if in a rush for dinner or breakfast, but nothing beats home made.
Speaking of all this "Southern" food, not one person has mentioned sweet potato or pecan pie!
Launderess
Scones:
Have to agree with you Pete, they are kind of "hard" and certianly nothing like biscuts. Even with clotted cream or jam, still rather like eating a large hunk of fruit cake.
Pillsbury biscuts,cresent rolls and the like can be "ok" if in a rush for dinner or breakfast, but nothing beats home made.
Speaking of all this "Southern" food, not one person has mentioned sweet potato or pecan pie!
Launderess
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Giblet Gravy?
No thanks. I'm on a "Low Internal Organ" diet.
I still say biscuits are like scones.
veg
No thanks. I'm on a "Low Internal Organ" diet.
I still say biscuits are like scones.
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Sweet potato pie
Another of my grandmas' favorites. I'm glad you mentioned them because the holidays are coming up and i'll have to make a half a dozen or so. Thsi is one of those recipies that can make from 2 to 6 pies. I've gottten better about ending up with about 3-4. I usally only make them around the holidays because I dont want to walk around with it on my thieghs all year long.
Another of my grandmas' favorites. I'm glad you mentioned them because the holidays are coming up and i'll have to make a half a dozen or so. Thsi is one of those recipies that can make from 2 to 6 pies. I've gottten better about ending up with about 3-4. I usally only make them around the holidays because I dont want to walk around with it on my thieghs all year long.
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Holiday food
During the holidays Sweet Potato Pie, greens, cornbread, pan fried chicken, home-made mac & cheese. The bread type AND the cornbread type stuffings were cooked. Home-made pound cake and Ambrosia were thrown into the mix, too. There would be a choice of regular gravy, with little pieces of the turkey mixed in AND Giblet gravy. Everybody had their "specialty". One of my great Aunt's would make "Monkey Bread", very buttery. A lot of their friends had little "businesses" going where they would make things like Monkey Bread, Sweet Potatoe and Pumpkin pies, and roasts and sell them to people who didn't want to cook themselves.
During the holidays Sweet Potato Pie, greens, cornbread, pan fried chicken, home-made mac & cheese. The bread type AND the cornbread type stuffings were cooked. Home-made pound cake and Ambrosia were thrown into the mix, too. There would be a choice of regular gravy, with little pieces of the turkey mixed in AND Giblet gravy. Everybody had their "specialty". One of my great Aunt's would make "Monkey Bread", very buttery. A lot of their friends had little "businesses" going where they would make things like Monkey Bread, Sweet Potatoe and Pumpkin pies, and roasts and sell them to people who didn't want to cook themselves.
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Squash cassarole
Who has the recipe for this?
Who has the recipe for this?
My mom found a good and simple recipe for Spoon Bread which I used to make for her when she came up. I'll have to take her some soon. I always ate it with sugar on it for dessert. Her family came from eastern Europe, but they used lots of corn meal, often cooked in water for corn meal mush or polenta if you are Italian, then cooled sliced and fried, but they also baked cornbread. There are versions of a dish called Mamaliga made just this way, but then there is the cardiac in a casserole called Baked Mamaliga where you layer the hot polenta or mush in a casserole with grated cheese and butter and bake it. Maybe for hardworking peasants it was ok, maybe not, but when I saw it made, all I could think of was Killer Casserole.
michaelman2
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Kenmore..I can give you a good recipe for the Squash Caserole if you want one...also a Sweet Potato Souffle...ok guys/gals..we can not forget a congealed salad!!!!
Can't Believe I Ate The Whole Thing
Well all this palaver about Chicken Buckets, and fried chicken "forced" me to dig mine out and go to town. Happily our local shop was having a sale on Canola oil (have to watch the saturated fats so peanut oil was o-w-u-t "out".
As one sits literally "stuffed" cannot tell you how good that fried chicken was. Happily did about a bird and a half, so there are leftovers for tomorrow and maybe enough to snack on during EastEnders on Saturday night.
Launderess
Well all this palaver about Chicken Buckets, and fried chicken "forced" me to dig mine out and go to town. Happily our local shop was having a sale on Canola oil (have to watch the saturated fats so peanut oil was o-w-u-t "out".
As one sits literally "stuffed" cannot tell you how good that fried chicken was. Happily did about a bird and a half, so there are leftovers for tomorrow and maybe enough to snack on during EastEnders on Saturday night.
Launderess
