OAMC:Make Ahead Biscuit Mix
April 7, 2008 by Marye Audet
Filed under Breads, Quick Breads, Quick and Easy, breakfast/brunch
I really hate biscuits made with shortening, and I hate Bisquick. I grew up on those over salted things and I thought I didn’t like biscuits at all until I learned to make my own. Biscuits aren’t hard to make, and they don’t take long, but sometimes the mess first thing in the morning is more that I can face.
This recipe for make your own biscuit mix should be stored in the refrigerator in a tightly sealed container, for no more than a month. I will be surprised if it lasts that long.
Make Ahead Biscuit Mix
9c flour
1c nonfat dry milk
1/3 c baking powder
3 tsp salt
1 1/4 c unsalted butter
1/4 c sugar
Stir dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Rub in butter with your fingers until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Makes 12 cups of mix, which will make about 5 dozen biscuits.
To make biscuits:
Combine 2 cups of mix, and 1/2 c water. Mix with fork until dough holds together. Turn out on to a lightly floured surface and knead lightly about 15-20 times. Roll to 1/2 inch thickness and cut with a biscuit cutter. Place on an ungreased backing sheet and bake at 425F for 12 minutes, or until golden. Makes 10-12 biscuits.
Hey, love your recipe! I do like my shortening bisquits, I make them and freeze them. Sorry for not being around to comment, a ton of things just rained down. You know how it is, when it rains, it pours!
YAY Julie is back..oh YEAH I know about pouring. Here too.
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I have wild garlic growing in my back pasture. That wills ound random to everyone but you..LOL!
Oh, I just found some of that over the summer growing near the creek up the road. And a huge stand of garlic mustard. We so need to get together and forage. I’ll make you love my biscuits, too.
Two words on the biscuits…
Trans-fatty acids.
I don’t eat shortening.
It’s kind of amazing how, when you grow up eating store-bought box mixes or things from restaurants and stuff like that you think that’s how everything is supposed to taste. Then you try it really homemade and it’s like, “Ohhh, *this* is how it should be.” Right? That’s how I was with some things. Things I didn’t even realize could be made from scratch (weird, huh?) Like I mentioned in a previous comment, for a while when I was a kid, my mom loved to cook and would bake cookies from scratch, use fresh veggies from the garden, and so on. Then, as my sisters and I got older, it was Hamburger Helper, store-bought cookie mixes and TV dinners. Now that I’m an adult I really think about the difference in those times, and it makes me miss the times when my mom would do things from scratch.. and we would get to help bake cookies. I think that’s one reason I love to cook and try new things.. and can’t wait to involve my future kids in all those things.
I’m rambling – haha, sorry!
Oh, and I have to say that this mix sounds good. My fiance loves bicuits and we tend to buy Pillsbury ones because, well, I haven’t made very good biscuits in the past lol. I will try this though!
Let me know how it works for you Tiffany.