Darn Biscuits!
So Cedar Sanderson yesterday posted about a Basic Biscuit recipe with video included. And yes, I want biscuits but I know better because I just don’t eat one or two or.. OK, you get the idea.
I am “cursed” with a wife that makes outstanding biscuits. Sweet Jesus, she has me wrapped around her little flour covered finger every time she makes them: Golden brown crust outside and a delicious soft inside begging to be covered in strawberry preserve, butter and stuffed sausage patty and half a slice of bacon, hold the cheddar and scrambled eggs on the side.
About 20 years ago, I saw on the TeeVee a documentary called The Rise of the Southern Biscuit and 10 minutes in I was fighting the urge to chew the screen. At the end of the show, I saw that they had the DVD and the recipe book for sale and I dropped coin as a gift to the Missus. She got it, watched the movie, read the book and the next thing I know she went on to try and make every single recipe biscuit. And yours truly probably gained 30 to 40 extra pounds being the official tester of the experiments every Sunday. It was heaven to my palate and also hell to my waistline and overall A1C.
She eventually settled with a simple recipe close to what Cedar does with some variations on ingredients according to what she feels like that occasional deserving Sunday since we are both trying to stay within a decent weight and health as we grow older.
If you have the gift for baking or at least a basic ability, you must learn to make biscuits. Every Richard, Thomas and Janet can do bread, especially with them machines, but the truly smart and epicurean do their own biscuits and depend on nobody to create the greatest carbohydrate that ever was.


I make a fair amount of bread and keep two friends in supply just enough to bribe our continuing friendship. Heh.
Biscuits? Well, I just finished two a few minutes ago. Butter and local honey included. Maybe later a couple more with butter and Steen's cane syrup. And I refuse to recalibrate my scale.
You and me, too! My grandmother's biscuits cooked in a woodstove oven. Butter & Kings syrup. and of course the obligatory BACON! & eggs.