Recipes
Cream Cheese Biscuits
Cream Cheese Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 T. baking powder
- 1 T. sugar
- ยพ tsp. salt
- 3 ounces very cold cream cheese cut into small pieces
- ยผ cup shortening
- ยฝ cup green onions finely chopped (Iโve used finely minced yellow onions when I didnโt have green onions)
- โ cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450ยฐ.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
- Cut in the cream cheese and shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbles.
- Stir in the green onions.
- Make a well in the center of the flour mixture.
- Add the milk and stir with a fork to form a soft ball of dough.
- Turn out the dough onto a floured surface and knead for 30 seconds.
- Roll or pat the dough to ยฝ-inch thickness and then cut with a biscuit cutter.
- Place the biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until done.
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Chopped Chicken Biscuits
Chopped Chicken Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- ยฝ tsp. salt
- 3 T. shortening
- ยพ cup milk
- 2 cups cooked chopped chicken (more or lessโjust use what you have)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425ยฐ.
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Cut in the shortening until it resembles coarse crumbles.
- Add the milk all at once and mix well.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and knead about 25 times.
- Roll out the ball of dough to about ยผ inch thick.
- Cover generously with the chicken.
- Roll the dough up as you would a jelly roll and slice it into pieces that are about an inch thick.
- Place them on a greased cookie sheet about an inch apart.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
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Cheesy Sausage Biscuits
Cheesy Sausage Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- ยฝ tsp. salt
- 5 T. shortening
- โ cup Cheddar cheese
- ยฝ cup ground breakfast sausage cooked, drained, and crumbled
- 1 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450ยฐ.
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbles.
- Mix in the cheese and sausage.
- Make a well in the center and pour in the milk all at once.
- Stir with a fork until the dough is mixed thoroughly and sticks mostly together in a soft ball.
- Drop by heaping tablespoons onto a greased baking sheet and bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until done.
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Cheesy Garlic Biscuits
Cheesy Garlic Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups homemade biscuit mix or Bisquick
- โ cup milk
- โ cup Cheddar cheese
- โ cup butter
- ยผ tsp. garlic powder more or less to suit taste
- ยผ tsp. heaping dried parsley
- a few shakes of salt from your salt shaker
- one shake of pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400ยฐ.
- In a medium bowl, stir together the biscuit mix, milk, and Cheddar cheese; donโt overmix.
- Drop by large spoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet, or a cookie sheet lined with a silicone baking mat.
- Bake for about 10 minutes, or until the biscuits are golden on top and baked completely.
- In the meantime, in a small saucepan over low heat, melt the butter; add the garlic powder, parsley, salt, and pepper, and gently stir to mix.
- Remove the biscuits from the oven, and while they are still on the baking sheet, immediately brush the tops of the biscuits generously with the melted butter mixture.
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Cheesy Buttermilk Biscuits
Cheesy Buttermilk Biscuits
Equipment
- biscuit cutter
- Baking sheet
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ยพ tsp. salt
- 3 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ยผ cup shortening
- 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
- 1 cup buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425ยฐ.
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
- Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbles.
- Add the cheese and stir to mix thoroughly.
- Add the buttermilk all at once and mix with a fork until it forms a ball.
- Turn out the dough onto a floured surface and knead for 30 seconds.
- Roll or pat the dough to ยฝ-inch thickness and then cut with a biscuit cutter.
- Place the biscuits on a greased baking sheet (or you can use a silicone baking sheet) and bake for 15 minutes or until done.
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Buttermilk Biscuits
Buttermilk Biscuits
Equipment
- biscuit cutter
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ยฝ tsp. salt
- 3 tsp. baking powder
- ยฝ tsp. baking soda
- 3 T. shortening
- 1 cup buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425ยฐ.
- Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
- Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbles.
- Add the buttermilk all at once and mix with a fork until it forms a ball.
- Turn out the dough onto a floured surface and knead for 30 seconds.
- Roll out the dough to ยฝ-inch thickness and then cut with a biscuit cutter.
- Place the biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown and done.
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Basic Biscuits
Basic Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- ยฝ tsp. salt
- โ cup shortening
- ยพ cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450ยฐ.
- In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.
- Make a well in the center and pour the milk into the well all at once.
- Stir with a fork until the dough comes clean from the sides of the bowl.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead it gently about 10 times.
- Roll or pat the dough to ยฝ-inch thickness and cut the biscuits using a biscuit cutter or the top of a glass that has been dredged in flour to prevent the dough from sticking to the glass.
- Place biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet about 1 inch apart.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until done.
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Bacon and Cheese Drop Biscuits
Bacon and Cheese Drop Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- ยฝ tsp. salt
- 5 T. shortening
- โ cup Cheddar cheese
- 4 to 6 slices bacon cooked and crumbled
- 1 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450ยฐ.
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbles.
- Mix in the cheese and bacon.
- Make a well in the center and pour in the milk all at once.
- Stir with a fork until the dough is mixed thoroughly and sticks mostly together in a soft ball.
- Drop by heaping tablespoons onto a greased baking sheet and bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until done.