How to make homemade biscuits?!


Question: How to make homemade biscuits!?
I am a southerner, you'd think I would catch on!. My mother showed me numerous times as a teen with Bisquick mix, she said the secret was to handle them softly!. When I try on my own they turn out hard like saltines!. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong, give me advice or a recipe with total instructions!?Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
Bisquick Buttered Biscuits

2 cups Bisquick
1 stick butter, melted
8 ozs!. sour cream

1!. Mix together Bisquick, butter and sour cream!.
2!. Place by teaspoonfuls into buttered minimuffin tins!.
3!. Bake in a preheated 400oF oven for about 15 minutes or until golden brown!. Serve with your favorite jelly, jam or preserves!. You won't need butter!. Makes 12 minibiscuits!.

Note: These freeze beautifully after they are baked!.
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Here is a simple white gravy and buttermilk biscuit
recipe that is very easy to make:

~White Gravy~

INGREDIENTS

* 1/2 cup vegetable oil
* 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 4 cups milk

DIRECTIONS

1!. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat!. Whisk in the flour, salt and pepper until smooth!. Cook and stir over medium heat until browned, about 10 minutes!. Gradually stir in milk so that no lumps form, and continue cooking and stirring until thickened!. If the gravy becomes too thick, you may thin it with a little more milk

~Buttermilk Biscuits~

INGREDIENTS

* 2 cups self-rising flour
* 1/2 cup butter or margarine
* 2/3 cup buttermilk

DIRECTIONS

1!. Cut butter into flour!. Add buttermilk and stir!.
2!. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls on a greased cookie sheet!. Bake at 450 degrees F (230 degrees C) for 10 minutes!.
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An award-winning recipe!.

THE BISCUITS
A Famous and Secret Restaurant Recipe For Buttermilk Biscuits
Preparation time: about 20 minutes!.!.!.the best 20 minutes you'll probably ever spend cooking! Serves 12-16!.

Ingredients:
3/4 cup shortening
4 1/2 cups flour
4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoons soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups buttermilk

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F
Combine flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder
Cut shortening into mixture with pastry blender until size of peas
Add buttermilk and stir until it holds together
Turn out onto a floured surface or pastry cloth
Knead 10 times
Roll 3/4 to 1 inch thick and cut with proper cutter
Place on sheet pan and brush with melted butter (be generous)
Bake for 10-12 minutes, depending on your oven
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Buttermilk Biscuits
INGREDIENTS
4 cups self-rising flour
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
2/3 cup shortening
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup buttermilk
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C)!. Lightly grease two baking sheets!.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar and baking powder; stir well!. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal!. Add 2 cups buttermilk and mix just to moisten!.
Roll out dough to 1 inch thick and cut into biscuits!. Place biscuits on prepared baking sheets; brush tops with remaining 1/4 cup buttermilk!.
Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes, or until golden!.

Beer Biscuits
1 dozen
INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup beer
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C)!.
Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt!. Cut in shortening until it has cornmeal consistency!. Stir in beer, and knead lightly!.
Roll dough out to 1/2 inch thickness!. Cut with biscuit cutter!.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until golden brown!.

Mayonnaise Biscuits
"This is a simple but tasty biscuit recipe!. You don't taste the mayo, but it gives the biscuits a light and fluffy texture!. For rolled and cut biscuits, use just enough milk to hold it together!."
1 dozen biscuits
INGREDIENTS
2 cups self-rising flour
1 cup milk
6 tablespoons mayonnaise
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C)!.
In a large bowl, stir together flour, milk, and mayonnaise until just blended!. Drop by spoonfuls onto lightly greased baking sheets!.
Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown
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KFC Kentucky Biscuits recipe

Source: kfc!.com/food/biscuits!.htm

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
2/3 cup milk
1/3 cup vegetable shortening

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F!.
Sift together flour, salt, sugar and baking powder into mixing bowl!. Make a well in the flour mix and add the milk!. Add shortening and begin kneading with hands (to cut in) the vegetable shortening and flour in the milk until thoroughly mixed!. Add milk, if needed to form, and mix!. Turn onto floured board, and knead gently 6 to 8 times!. Pat dough to 1/2-inch thickness!. Cut into biscuits!. Place on baking sheet and brown in oven 10 to 13 minutes!.
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Lighter-than-Air Buttermilk Biscuits

1/3 cup butter, cut up
2 cups S/R flour
? cup buttermilk

Preheat oven to 425oF!. Cut butter in flour w/ pastry cutter!. Add buttermilk and stir just until all dry ingredients are incorporated!. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and gently knead (fold over itself) 4-5 times!. This develops layers!. Pat or roll to ?” thick; cut with a round biscuit cutter!. Bake for 12-14 minutes!. Bursh w/ melted butter if desired!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup shortening
3/4 cup buttermilk

NOTE: For tender, flaky biscuits, you want to handle the dough as little as possible!. Don't knead the dough like you would for bread, this could be why they're so hard!. If you like shine to them, brush the tops with milk or melted butter right before putting them in the oven!.

DIRECTIONS
In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients!. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs!. Stir in buttermilk just until moistened(important)!. Turn onto a lightly floured surface!. Roll to 1/2-in!. thickness; cut with a floured 2-1/2-in!. biscuit cutter!. Place 1 in!. apart on an ungreased baking sheet!. Bake at 450 degrees F for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown!. Serve warm!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Cheese and Garlic Biscuits (Red Lobster Biscuits)

2 ? cups Bisquick baking mix
? cup cold milk
4 tablespoons cold butter (1/2 stick)
? teaspoon garlic powder
1 ? cups grated cheddar cheese

Bush on Top:
2 tablespoons butter, melted
? teaspoon dried parsley flakes
? teaspoon garlic powder
pinch salt

Directions:
1!. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees!.

2!. Combine Bisquick with cold butter in a medium bowl using a pastry cutter or a large fork!. You don't want to mix too thoroughly!. There should be small chunks of butter in there that are about the size of peas!. Add cheddar cheese, milk, and ? teaspoon garlic!. Mix by hand until combined, but don't over mix!.

3!. Drop approximately ?-cup portions of the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet using an ice cream scoop!.

4!. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes or until the tops of the biscuits begin to turn light brown!.

5!. When you take the biscuits out of the oven, melt 2 tablespoons butter is a small bowl in your microwave!. Stir in ? teaspoon garlic powder and the dried parsley flakes!. Use a brush to spread this garlic butter over the tops of all the biscuits!. Use up all of the butter!. Makes one dozen biscuits!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

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Saltines!? You're patting them WAY too thin! Leave the dough an inch thick, then cut!. also make sure your baking powder or soda is not expired; even if close, it can lose some of it's leavening capabilities!. If yoru bisquick is older, this can happen to it, too!. And your momma's right about not handling them too much!.


Done Buttered Biscuits

2 cups Bisquick
1 stick butter, melted
8 ozs!. sour cream
1!. Mix together Bisquick, butter and sour cream!.
2!. Place by teaspoonfuls into buttered minimuffin tins!.
3!. Bake in a preheated 400oF oven for about 15 minutes or until golden brown!. Serve with your favorite jelly, jam or preserves!. You won't need butter!. Makes 12-18 minibiscuits!.

Note: These freeze beautifully after they are baked!.
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Lighter-than-Air Buttermilk Biscuits

1/3 cup butter, cut up
2 cups S/R flour
? cup buttermilk

Preheat oven to 425oF!. Cut butter in flour w/ pastry cutter!. Add buttermilk and stir just until all dry ingredients are incorporated!. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and gently knead (fold over itself) 4-5 times!. This develops layers!. Pat or roll to ?” thick; cut with a round biscuit cutter!. Bake for 12-14 minutes!. Bursh w/ melted butter if desired!.

Yiled: 7 (2?”) biscuits

--Southern Living
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Our Best Buttermilk Biscuits

? cup cold butter
2? cups self-rising soft-wheat flour
1? cups buttermilk
Self-rising soft-wheat flour
2 tablespoons melted butter

1!. Cut butter with a sharp knife or pastry blender into 1/4-inch-thick slices!. Sprinkle butter slices over flour in a large bowl!. Toss butter with flour!. Cut butter into flour with a pastry blender until crumbly and mixture resembles small peas!. Cover and chill 10 minutes!. Add buttermilk, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened!.

2!. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; knead 3 or 4 times, gradually adding additional flour as needed!. With floured hands, press or pat dough into a 3/4-inch-thick rectangle (about 9 x 5 inches)!. Sprinkle top of dough with additional flour!. Fold dough over onto itself in 3 sections, starting with 1 short end!. (Fold dough rectangle as if folding a letter-size piece of paper!.) Repeat entire process 2 more times, beginning with pressing into a 3/4-inch-thick dough rectangle (about 9 x 5 inches)!.

3!. Press or pat dough to 1/2-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface; cut with a 2-inch round cutter, and place, side by side, on a parchment paper-lined or lightly greased jelly-roll pan!. (Dough rounds should touch!.)

4!. Bake at 450° for 13 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned!. Remove from oven; brush with 2 Tbsp!. melted butter!.

Cinnamon-Raisin Biscuits: Omit 2 Tbsp!. melted butter!. Combine 1/2 cup golden raisins, 1/2 tsp!. ground cinnamon, and 1/3 cup chopped pecans with flour in a large bowl!. Proceed with recipe as directed!. Stir together 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 2 Tbsp!. buttermilk until smooth!. Drizzle over warm biscuits!. Makes 2 1/2 dozen!.

Black Pepper-Bacon Biscuits: Combine 1/3 cup cooked and crumbled bacon slices (about 5 slices) and 1 tsp!. black pepper with flour in a large bowl!. Proceed with recipe as directed!. Makes 2 1/2 dozen!.

Feta-Oregano Biscuits: Combine 1 (4-oz!.) package crumbled feta cheese and 1/2 tsp!. dried oregano with flour in a large bowl!. Proceed with recipe as directed!. Makes 2 1/2 dozen!.

Pimiento Cheese Biscuits: Combine 1 cup (4 oz!.) shredded sharp Cheddar cheese with flour in a large bowl!. Reduce buttermilk to 1 cup!. Stir together buttermilk and 1 (4-oz!.) jar diced pimiento, undrained!. Proceed with recipe as directed!. Makes 2? dozen!.

--Southern Living, NOVEMBER 2007
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