@polarberry No ... no family secret LOL Thing is? I have made them so long I don't even measure anymore... so I eyeball the amount the amount of White Lily self rising flour... blend in my butter or crisco or lard or coconut oil ( about the size of a medium chicken egg) and pour in the buttermilk or kefir ... blend well and pinch a bit off and shape it with my hand and put on my cast iron round griddle pan and put in a 450 oven and cook about 12-15 minutes until brown. I use King Arthur flour for making my bread.... it doesn't do good fluffy biscuits like White Lily cause its made from hard red winter wheat ( which makes great sourdough) White Lily is soft winter wheat... you can start with the recipe on the back of their bag... or watch Brenda Gantt method on her Facebook page. I always do home made from scratch... unless I am going out to eat. That's how I was raised and at 65 not gonna change it now lol. I just made homemade chocolate buttercream for the chocolate cake I made for dessert tonight.
@journeywithme2. I follow Brenda Gantt too. I love her stuff. I have tried her biscuit bowl method. They turned out really good. I agree that White Lily is the way to go, and I prefer to use butter and buttermilk. I also add a couple of tablespoons of local honey to my biscuit dough. I heat my oven to 500 and use a cast iron skillet.
@honeybee I love how she shares the good home cooked food I grew up on and make myself. She's a great teacher!
@theungamer
Butter Bacon Grease Sandwich
Take two slices cheap white bread. Slather one piece with butter. Saturate other piece with bacon grease (preferably warm, but cold works also) Place together and slice off crusts.
Enjoy with ice cold glass of chocolate buttermilk.
I watched her Hamburger steak with gravy video tonight. She is adorable and funny. The recipe looked great until the hamburger steaks went in to the simmering pool of gravy. And canned peas? No thanks! ? I cracked up. They were gray.
It's a childhood thing. My mother did not come from a gravy-eating family. Her mom hated it, she hated it, and I guess I grew up thinking it wasn't something you needed on food. We even had many a Thanksgiving without gravy. Even now if I serve gravy, hardly anybody eats any. The canned pea thing is a childhood trauma as well. My dad ate them, boiled until they were double-dead. He did love real butter. Ate it like a Snickers bar.
White Lily self-rising it is. I will have to order it as our stores don't carry it. Maybe that's why my biscuits aren't southern light and fluffy; wrong brand of flour.
Got some leftover chocolate buttercream in the fridge that's going in between sugar cookies tomorrow.
@polarberry yeah I don't eat canned peas ... also a childhood trauma ?. Those Green Giant Lesuer peas. ? Now canned black-eyed peas or field peas? By Allens? Are good! I come from gravy eating folks.. Appalachian mountain folk descent..we'd eat everything but the squeal from our hogs. Gravy helped stretch a meal to fill bellies.. little bit of meat lots of biscuits n gravy. Order from Walmart ... they have best prices if you have to do that. Check out White Lily Community Page too. You'll see a wide variety of people inspired to take up biscuit making and share their methods. How did your spoonbread turn out?
@polarberry Is this butter bacon grease sandwich for real? And chocolate buttermilk? YUCK!
Eat that and there is not enough statins in the world to lower your cholesterol!
lol, no, I was just being a smart-A in response to Ungamer's funny comment about having him at bacon grease. I thought of it because my dad grew up poor and I guess a special treat for him was a slice of bread spread thick with oleo and sprinkled with sugar. My mom said oleo was disgusting.
Now the chocolate buttermilk thing is real. Tastes like drinkable chocolate yogurt, which I loved as a kid. You used to be able to buy chocolate flavor in the little 8 oz cups, but I haven't seen it for years.