Hot, flaky buttermilk biscuits are a great way to start the day, covered with apple butter or sausage gravy or for supper served with fried chicken.
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Monkey Bread is a sweet bread made with canned biscuits. It’s a quick and easy to make breakfast treat.
Cracklin corn bread is made with cracklings, which are bits of roasted pork skins. You can make your own, or you may be able to find them at small Mom & Pop groceries.
1 1/2 cup white cornmeal
1/4 cup oil or bacon drippings
1/2 cup flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 to [...]
The story goes that folks frying fish would drop bits of corn meal into the hot oil and throw them to the hound dogs to keep them quiet and away from the kettle of fish. A true Southern delicacy.
2 cups self-rising cornmeal
2 cups self-rising flour
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 large onion [...]
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons grated lemon peel
1/4 cup canola oil
2 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 tablespoons poppy seeds
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
In a 1 1/2 quart bowl, using a large spoon, stir together eggs, milk, lemon juice, grated lemon peel and oil until well blended. [...]
These light, airy biscuits are a real treat.
1 cup cake flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled, cut in 1/4″ cubes
3/4 cup half and half
Pre-heat oven to to 400 degrees.
Sift together cake flour, all-purpose flour, cream of
tartar, baking soda, and salt.
Using a pastry blender [...]
1cup all-purpose flour
1 cup cornmeal
1 tablespoon double-acting baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg
1 1/3 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup melted shortening
Place a 10†cast-iron skillet in the oven and pre-heat to 425 degrees.
Mix dry ingredients together; add milk, egg.and shortening. Mix only until moistened. Pour into hot skillet.Bake at 425 degrees for 25 minutes or until brown.
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Sweet potato biscuits are another gift to Southern cooking from African Americans. The recipes go back to before the Civil War; during the wartime food shortages, they became familiar to all southerners as the sweet potatoes were used to stretch out flour, which was scarce in the last years of the war.
The biscuits are [...]
These traditional Southern biscuits date back to the days before baking powder and baking soda were available. Pearlash, which was used as the main leavener at the time, gave biscuits a bitter taste. Cooks found that by pounding and folding unleavened biscuit dough enough times, tiny air pockets formed in the dough and leavened it.
When [...]
You heard Granny talk about it, now make your own!
3 cups cornmeal
3 tablespoons lard or vegetable shortening
2 1/2 cups boiling water
3 teaspoons salt
Melt lard in 10 inch cast iron skillet and swirl to coat. Pour remaining fat into other ingredients and mix. Bake at 350¼ F for 45- 50 min. or until golden brown. [...]
