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Mikki
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mikki
Austin
Indiana
USA
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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 Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 10:22:48 AM
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| That's the way I learned to make biscuits. It's only the last year or so that I started rolling them out and cutting them. I just roll a pinch of dough between my hands, with lots of flour on them to keep the dough from sticking, and pat them in close to each other in the baking pan. |
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chaddsgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
843 Posts
Sarah
Farmgirl Sisterhood #639
MO
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 10:52:01 AM
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Same here. I think I'm just too lazy to roll them out. But I make mine the same way Amie C does.
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and get to bed at night and in between does what they want to do. Bob Dylan |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 11:36:40 AM
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I mostly do it that way too...out of pure laziness and the fact that I learned that way. I do love the look of the rolled and cut ones (never met a bisquit I didn't like) but I tend to do drop bisquits or hand formed ones.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 11:40:42 AM
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I also do all my mixing by hand, and do drop biscuits, no rolling out and cutting, takes too much time, and my time is precious
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 11:46:24 AM
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My dear deceased grandmother had one of those ; well 2 ; but one was really big !
dark brown mixing bowls with the ridges on them
the really old ones.
She took a walnut size or bigger of dough.
She put flour on her hands
and patted them each in a perfect round biscuit
they were so good.
She was one for cooking fast
one funny thing about her is
When she got her "electric stove"
she wouldn't fix any thing "messy" in her oven
You know like sticky googey casseroles.
she thought it was only for baking sutff
like bread, pies, cakes etc lol hugs sheila
www.ohkayteagirl2.blogspot.com
http;//www.sheilascreativewritings.blogspot.com |
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harmonyfarm
True Blue Farmgirl
785 Posts
Debbie
Southeastern
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 4:26:56 PM
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I mix mine by hand. I use lard for the shortening, roll them out and cut them with a metal vegetable can lidless on both ends to serve as a cutter. Something about the can makes them perfect. I've been using the same can for years as they don't make veggie cans that open on both ends anymore. I have a recipe for cornmeal biscuits that goes back to the Civil War. Love 'em with chili....must be suppertime, I'm hungry....
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
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laurzgot
True Blue Farmgirl
1676 Posts
Laurie
Alvin
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 4:45:21 PM
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I use a pastry blender to blend shorting with dry ingredents. Put lots of flour on a flour board and pat the dough , then use a cutter.
Laurie
suburban countrygirl at heart |
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Mikki
True Blue Farmgirl
1510 Posts
Mikki
Austin
Indiana
USA
1510 Posts |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2009 : 07:17:55 AM
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I make drop biscuits. Simple kneeding with hands and just plop onto a cookie sheet.
Learned from my dad
Don't have the patience to roll and cut when it all goes to the same place anyway....althought uniform round biscuits hold the gravy better! |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
2350 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2009 : 11:35:46 AM
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Alee.
I love biscuits; though being Diabetic; I can't have them often during the week
I love homemade; but been buying the Pillsbury dough boy's biscuits.
I use to make home made loaf breads, cake and cookies every week when my son was little
I use to love to bake.
hugs sheila
www.ohkayteagirl2.blogspot.com
http;//www.sheilascreativewritings.blogspot.com |
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Mikki
True Blue Farmgirl
1510 Posts
Mikki
Austin
Indiana
USA
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