The flawless biscuit that took years to master.

[amerikat]

Your favorite banjo player has a recipe for you. Rhiannon Giddens https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250509-the-flawless-biscuit-that-took-years-to-master

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I still have a small amount of White Lily I moved from Arkansas to Illinois.

[amerikat]

2. Quite a move.

I don't think White Lilly is available where I am. I would have to prepare for a couple of days to even try this recipe.

[Figarosmom]

4. King Arther cake flour is supposed

To be lower in protein Ike White Lily flour. Look for flour with about 9 grams protein.

[Figarosmom]

3. That would make a nice

Layered biscuit with the folding of the dough and the cold butter would make nice pockets of crisp.


I like drop biscuits with jam or honey. To make those I use hot water and bisqick, which makes them light as air. I know cheating with the bisquick but they are good and makes good dumplings 🥟 in stew or chicken and dumplings 🥟..

[NBachers]

5. I've been making pancakes since I was a little kid; I've recently adopted Bisquick for my pancake batter. After trying

all sorts of recipes and mixes over the years, I'm now sold on Bisquick.

[Marthe48]

6. I use a recipe I found in an old undated cookbook

Put together by a community. Most of the recipes say things like 'bake in a quick oven' or 'slow oven' (defined as how fast a piece of paper would burst into flame when placed inside!)

I saw a recipe years later for southern style biscuits. I didn't use the recipe, stuck to the one I had, but added the baking technique in the southern recipe. Put your dough together, heat the oven, and melt a 1/2" of butter in the bottom of a pan with sides. I have never added a 1/2" of butter. I melt a couple of tbs, drop the dough in, bake as usual. The biscuits come out just right, for me

There is another recipe in the same book for fluff dumplings. Perfect for chicken and dumplings Our great-grandmothers knew how to bake!

[Figarosmom]

7. I do that for cornbread.

Melt some butter in a cast iron skillet in the oven until good and hot. Add batter and bake. Makes a nice crispy, buttery crust.

On the oven Temps, my Nana had a wood burning oven those were the Temps she used .

[Marthe48]

8. My Mom made cornbread that way

She had a cast iron pan with 5 corn shaped wells. She had to put a lot of butter in, or they'd stick Yummy!

[mitch96]

9. I love biscuits, you guys are making me hungry.. nt