Showing posts with label Biscuit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biscuit. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

30 Minute Recipes For Chicken - Chicken Biscuit Pie

There's nothing like eating chicken and biscuit pie on a cold day to warm up your insides. It's mom's comfort food that is always welcome at any mealtime. This dish can be made in about 30 minutes, so you're not going to need to spend a lot of time in preparation.

To make this dish you'll need a bag of frozen boneless, chicken tenderloins. Two boxes of chicken flavored rice, water, a can of cream of chicken soup, a bag of frozen mixed vegetables and one container of buttermilk biscuits.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Run 12 pieces of frozen chicken under cold water for 1 or 2 minutes to remove ice. Cut chicken into 1-inch pieces.

In a large saucepan, combine the chicken, 4 cups of water, 2 boxes of chicken flavored rice, plus the seasoning packets, 1 can of cream of chicken soup and 1 large bag of frozen mixed vegetables. Mix all ingredients completely.

Bring to a boil and cover; reduce heat to a simmer and simmer for 10 minutes, or until juices of chicken run clear. Place chicken mixture into a 13x9-inch baking pan and top with uncooked refrigerator biscuits. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until the biscuits are a deep brown color.

Serve immediately.

Makes 8 servings.

Bonus Recipe: Buttermilk Drop Donuts

To make these donuts you'll need: vegetable oil, all purpose flour, sugar, salt baking powder, ground nutmeg, baking soda, buttermilk and 1 egg.

In a Dutch oven or large pot, heat up 2 to 3 inches of vegetable oil to about 375 degrees.

In a large bowl, combine 2 cups flour, 1 / 4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon nutmeg and 1 / 2 teaspoon baking powder. Add in 1 / 4 cup vegetable oil 3 / 4 cup buttermilk and 1 egg. Beat mixture with a fork until smooth.

Drop by tablespoon dough into hot oil. Fry for about 3 minutes or until the biscuits are browned on all sides. Drain on absorbent paper and immediately rollsugar.

Makes about 3 1/2 dozen donuts.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Cutting Biscuit Skill

Biscuit to be cut after baking

1. Utilize a suitable baking tray size. The biscuits may become too thin and easily burned if the baking tray is too large. If the baking tray too small, the biscuit will become too thick and hard to bake.

2.When the edge of the biscuits is dry, briefly separate it from the baking tray and lightly press the biscuit's surface. If it leaves a slight making, this means the biscuit is nicely baked. Finally, pierce the centre of the biscuit with a bamboo.

3.Unless the recipe requires the biscuit to be cut into pieces when it's still hot, the baked biscuits should be left to cool on the wire rack before cutting them into small pieces. Soak the cutter in hot water before cutting the biscuit to ensure a neat cutting edge.

4. Spread aluminum foil on the baking tray before baking the biscuit to ensure that it's easily to remove from the baking tray without damaging its shape.

Cutting Biscuits With A Mould

1. A small amount of dough should be used at each time to obtain the optimum thickness more easily. The remaining dough should be kept in a refrigerator until it's time to use them.

2. Sprinkle some flour on the rolling pin and the board to prevent the dough from sticking. In addition, sprinkle some flour on the mould to prevent the dough from sticking onto the mould when you cut it.

3. This type of biscuit is thinner and has a shorter baking time, so if the edge of biscuit displays a golden brown colour, it means the biscuit is well baked.

Baking Biscuits On A Tray

1. This type of biscuit is easily to make. Blend all the ingredients to dough o form a dough, the scoop the dough with a spoon and line it on a baking tray to bake. Do not stir the dough excessively when baking any biscuit or else the biscuit will be very hard.

2. Biscuits should be baked in batches. The tray needs to be cooled before baking the next batch of biscuits. Otherwise, the dough will expand too fast during baking, causing the biscuit size to become unbalanced.

3.When the edge of the biscuit displays a golden brown colour and exhibits a slight marking when its surface is pressed, it means the biscuit is well baked.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

7 Rules for a perfect Biscuits From Scratch Everytime - Plus 1 Great Buttermilk biscuit recipe

Making cookies is not an exact science, but requires some basic tips and techniques that make it work properly. Take any recipe for any cookie you have (see below), these 7 simple rules apply to this recipe, and there will be a perfect home-made biscuits scratch every time.

1) Use a good little amount of gluten, wheat flour.

2) The flour of themselves, then sift again with other dry ingredients in the recipe. This creates the perfectEasy for your biscuits.

3) The Flake, textured cookies are best when you are as fat lard in the cookie recipe. If you do not feel good about the shortening with the bacon for all cookies, try using half and half vegetable fat. But not all vegetable oils in any cookie recipe.

4) Chill the bowl and fat are used, and work quickly to keep the fat melts. Each wheat flour should be covered in grease to prevent the flourGluten from the water-activated. When you activate the adhesive, you end up with a hard, heavy biscuit.

5) Buy a good biscuit cutter, which makes a nice clean cut. It should also allow air to escape the (open top), cookies allow them to thrive.

6) Pat the cookie dough only once. Re rolling causes the gluten-free pasta dough recipe for cookie string, which is very heavy, dense biscuits.

Bake 7) For uniform, turn thePan for about one point during the cooking. If cooking more than a tin of biscuits at a time, switch the positions of the pots.

Before baking powder was ever invented, cooks have always used buttermilk biscuits. This would help them grow. Although it still operates today, people go more to the taste of butter milk deliveries for his ability to the biscuit dough can rise.

Buttermilk BiscuitRecipe

Ingredients:

2 1 / 2 cup of wheat flour
1 1 / 2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 / 2 teaspoon salt
1 / 2 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoons lard, chilled
2 tablespoons vegetable shortening, chilled
1 cup chilled buttermilk

Directions:

Place the rack in the center, and preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a baking sheet.

Sift the flour, then sift together all dry ingredients in a large bowl. formed with a fork or pastry blender great, stir in vegetable shortening and bacon fat to a meal.

Stir in the buttermilk and pour the ingredients until dough is sticky.

Flour your hands and a pastry board or work surface. Turn the dough and knead gently, only 4 to 6 times. Pat the dough until about 1 / 2 inch thick.

Cut the dough with a round cutter 2 to 3 inch round biscuit or cookie cutter.

Move> Biscuits on the baking sheet, arrange it so that only hard together. Bake cookies for about 10 minutes, or until golden brown in color and are raised (Remember to turn the sheet halfway through cooking).

Serve the biscuits warm with butter to coat.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Really Inexpensive and Easy Recipes - Biscuit Hamburger Bake, Spoon Bread, and Pink Flannel Hash

With so many people out-of-work and almost all of us watching our finances, inexpensive family meals are becoming more and more important. Here are some old-fashion recipes that offer you meals that are easy, inexpensive yet tasty. These recipes should be a hit with the whole family while saving you money on your food budget. Biscuit Hamburger Bake is quick, easy, inexpensive, and has meat, vegetables, bread, and dairy all in one dish. Spoon Bread is an old recipe from Tennessee for a cornbread type bread baked in a casserole dish. Pink Flannel Hash uses tuna, potatoes, eggs, etc for a quick, inexpensive meal. So take heart, and give these recipes a try to help you save money on your trips to the grocery store.

BISCUIT HAMBURGER BAKE

This recipe is from an old community cookbook in Southern Indiana where I was born and raised.

1 lb ground beef
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 can condensed Vegetable Soup
1/2 tbsp oregano
dash of pepper
1 can refrigerated biscuits
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a large skillet, cook ground beef with onion until meat is browned and onion is tender; drain well to remove fat. Stir in the can of soup, oregano, and pepper; heat to bubbling. Pour mixture into a 2-quart casserole dish that has been buttered. Top with the biscuits. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove from oven. Spread the sour cream over the biscuits then top with the cheese. Return to the oven and bake another 10 minutes.

SPOON BREAD

This is an old Tennessee hills recipe.

2 cups white corn meal
2 1/2 cups boiling water
1 1/2 tbsp melted butter
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 egg yolks, beaten
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
2 egg whites, beaten

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Add corn meal slowly to boiling water. Let stand for 3 minutes. Add butter to the corn meal mixture. Stir in salt, egg yolks, baking soda, and buttermilk. Fold in the egg whites and turn into a greased baking dish. Bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes.

PINK FLANNEL HASH

This old recipe was a clipping I found in a box of my late mother's recipes. I have no idea where this clipping originated.

1/3 cup butter or margarine
1 cup chopped onion (1 large)
2 cups finely chopped red bell pepper
1/2 tsp Tabasco sauce
2 cups Idaho frozen southern style hash brown potatoes
1 can (6 1/2-7 oz) tuna, drained and flaked
4 eggs

In a large skillet melt butter; saute the onions and peppers until crisp tender. Stir in Tabasco sauce and potatoes. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, until potatoes are tender and golden (about 15 minutes). Stir in tuna. Make four wells in potato mixture; break one egg into each well. Cover and cook 3 to 4 minutes or until eggs are set. Garnish with fresh parsley.

Serves 4.

Enjoy!

Friday, December 24, 2010

How to Create Healthy Dog Biscuit Recipes

If you're looking to have more control of your canine's diet, a good place to start is with a few solid dog biscuit recipes. Dog biscuits found in commercial stores are notoriously full of fillers and unnatural materials that may harm your dogs long term health. But making them at home can be just as bad if you're not familiar with proper dog nutrition.

Making homemade dog biscuits is a lot like making homemade granola bars. The only problem is that dogs aren't animals raised to eat grains. The roughage they're used to getting is in the form of grass. We need to utilize this natural diet if we're going to form proper dog biscuit recipes.

Instead of using something like oatmeal to bind your dog biscuit together, try natural wheat germ flour or rice flour. Along with a beaten egg for protein, these natural flours will keep the biscuits together in a solid cookie shape.

But what do you put in your biscuits for flavor?

Well, meat is always a good option. Left over gravy and table scraps put through the blender can make excellent flavoring and give your dog some much needed calcium.

And it might sound gross to us, but a really good homemade dog biscuit recipe will include some fresh bone marrow. Marrow is soft and an excellent source of protein for animals. Best of all they absolutely love the taste which is perfect for even the pickiest of animals.

Remember as well to steer clear of veggies for the most part. While they are good for humans, puppies need them only in moderation. Remember that your puppies natural diet wouldn't have potatoes or broccoli.

Monday, December 20, 2010

30 minutes Recipes for Chicken - Chicken Biscuit Pie

There is nothing like the chicken and biscuit cake and eat on a cold day warm inside. E 'comfort food that mom is always welcome at every meal. This court in about 30 minutes can be done so that you do not need to spend much time to prepare.

For this dish is a bag of frozen chicken breasts need. Two boxes of chicken flavored rice, water, a can of cream of chicken soup, a bag of frozen vegetables and a container of buttermilk> Cookies.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Run to remove 12 pieces of frozen chicken under cold water for 1 or 2 minutes on ice. Cut chicken into pieces about 1 inch.

In a large saucepan, combine chicken, 4 cups water, 2 boxes of chicken flavored rice, more packets of seasoning, 1 can cream of chicken and a bag of frozen vegetables. All the ingredients completely.

Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes, or untilChicken Run juices clear. Place chicken mixture into a 13x9-inch baking dish and top with refrigerator biscuits raw. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until the biscuits are a deep brown color.

Serve immediately.

Makes 8 servings.

Bonus Recipe: Buttermilk Drop Donuts

These donuts, you will need: vegetable oil, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, baking soda, 1 egg and buttermilk.

In a Dutch oven or large pot heat up to 2to 3 inches of vegetable oil to about 375 degrees.

In a large bowl, combine 2 cups flour, 1 / 4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon nutmeg and 1 / 2 teaspoon baking powder. Add in 1 / 4 cup vegetable oil 3 / 4 cup buttermilk and 1 egg. Beat mixture with a fork until smooth.

Drop by tablespoon dough into hot oil. Fry for about 3 minutes or until the biscuits are browned on all sides. Drain on absorbent paper and immediately rollSugar.

For about 3 1 / 2 dozen donuts.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Biscuit Heaven

I admit it. I'm a biscuit snob. I love biscuits and gravy, but whenever I visit restaurants I order a substitution of sourdough toast for the biscuits. Restaurant biscuits are pretty much uniformly . . . well, just not up to much.

Now, I do give restaurants the benefit of the doubt. The first time I order B&G from a new restaurant, I will take the biscuits. This is just in case there are excellent biscuits in the general population getting by my taste buds. So, far this screening process has yet to produce golden biscuits worthy of the name.

I grew up eating wonderful biscuits at home, but most Americans never had a taste of biscuits until 1973 when McDonald's introduced them with their breakfast menu. My wife and I make wonderful biscuits as does my oldest son. Mine are absolutely perfect. My wife prefers her version because they are smaller. She uses a small juice glass to cut out her biscuits, while I like the larger size of a 16 oz. tumbler. Peg's biscuits also don't stand as high as mine. Plus she tends to overcook her biscuits . . . in my opinion. Of course, my wife disagrees with me. All these homemade biscuit differences are only slight compared to commercial products.

The strange thing about biscuits, however, is the fact that three fast-food restaurants produce great tasting biscuits. McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits consistently serve biscuits that are not only worthy of honey, or butter and jam, but also gravy.

My order of preference are: Popeye, McDonald's and KFC. Popeye's is a recent addition to my favorite places. I stopped in at the restaurant on Sixth Avenue and ordered chicken and biscuits. The chicken didn't do anything for me, but the biscuits were warm and greasy. I love the sausage biscuits at McDonald's and the only thing wrong with KFC biscuits is the nearly tasteless brown gravy, which should never come closer than a foot or two from their biscuits. At Popeye's you can order a side of their Cajun gravy, which goes really well with the biscuits.

I would have guessed that the Popeye Biscuits were higher in fat, and they were, but only marginally. The Popeye Biscuits were substantially lower in sodium, but otherwise the three were neck and neck within most nutrition categories.

The KFC Biscuits were 220 calories, while both Popeye and McDonald's weighed in at 240 calories. Biscuits are not diet food, but of the three only Popeye's was the best without added butter or jam. With gravy, we have a different story. What would be best would be for me to make my own sausage and milk gravy. Even bad biscuits taste better with great gravy on them. Of course, my idea of a perfect breakfast is biscuits and gravy with hashbrowns (cooked crusty and brown with onions), fried eggs, sausage links and patties . . . and bacon. I just can't eat that every day, however. It has to be a special day.

I think for next Father's Day I will ask for sides of gravy and hashbrowns from my two favorite gravy restaurants in Tacoma (Old Milwaukee on Sixth Avenue and Knapp's in the Proctor District) and a bag of biscuits from Popeye's . . . okay, don't spare the eggs and pork, either.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Old-Fashioned Biscuit Recipes Like Grandma Used to Make

Do you remember those big, fluffy, delicious biscuits that you enjoyed eating at grandma's house? I sure do. I remember the big old wood cookstove in my grandma's kitchen and the delicious biscuits that were always sitting in the "warmer" area. No matter the time of day, there were always biscuits at the ready in grandma's kitchen! I grew up in the midwest where we had some mighty cold winters. One of the best things to do was to sit in grandma's kitchen where the heat from the big old cookstove made it the warmest room in the house. So if you are like me and have wonderful memories of sitting in grandma's kitchen eating a homemade biscuit slathered with hand-churned butter and homemade jam, you might want to try one of these old-fashioned biscuit recipes.

BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

5 cups flour

3/4 cup shortening or lard

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp soda

1 tsp salt

3 tbsp sugar

1 pkg yeast

1/3 cup warm water

2 cups buttermilk

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Sift dry ingredients together into large bowl. Cut shortening into flour mixture. Add buttermilk and yeast that's been dissolved in the warm water. Mix with a spoon until all the flour is moistened. Cover and set in refrigerator till ready to use. Take out as much dough as needed. Roll out on a floured board to 1/2" to 3/4" thick. Cut using a biscuit cutter or small glass. Bake 12 minutes until browned. Keep unused dough in refrigerator for use the next day.

BAKING POWDER BISCUITS

2 cups flour

4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cream of tartar

2 tsp sugar

1/2 cup shortening

3/4 cup milk

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Sift all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Using two knives, cut in shortening until crumbly. Add milk and mix in well. Roll out on a lightly floured surface and cut with a biscuit cutter. Bake at 400 degrees for fifteen to twenty minutes.

Enjoy!

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Biscuit Joinery and Pocket-Hole Technology For Woodworking Enthusiasts

As craftsmen strive to create a perfect joint the question of wood joinery hangs over the heads of many professionals. To achieve these sought after smooth, strong, and durable joints there are many methods to choose from. Techniques like biscuit, or plate joinery, and pocket-hole joinery offer individual and effective ways to create a powerful and strong joint. Each method provides a different and efficient way to enhance the strength of your joints.

Biscuit or plate joinery involves the insertion of a biscuit into an oval, or crescent shaped slot that is cut into opposite edges of two pieces of wood. Biscuits are pre-cut, oval-shaped pieces of compressed wood that range in size from 1/2in to 2-1/4in in length. There are also biscuits available in plastic, aluminum, and steel for special applications, generally however, wood biscuits are the most prominently used. Biscuits (dabbed with glue) are inserted into specially cut slots in the wood that are shaped identically to the biscuit, the two pieces of wood are clamped together to set, and thus form a strong, durable joint. The biscuits also tend to soak up the glue applied to them before insertion which causes them to swell and make the joint tighter, and stronger. Porter Cable, DEWALT, and Makita each offer high quality plate joiners with unique, and individual features to help meet your needs, and build your joints better.

Porter Cable offers a Deluxe Plate Joiner Kit with a powerful 7.5 amps and 10,000 rpm. This joiner has many features that simplify the joining process, including: a precise micro height-adjustment knob to keep biscuits exactly centered, and a 1in O.D. (outer diameter) dust port that works with standard bags or can simply hook up to a vacuum. The DW682K has a fence tilt of 0 to135 degrees with a positive adjustable stop at 90 degrees; additionally, the bale handle is attached to the fence (rather than the motor) for increased stability and control while cutting. The joiner also has a lock-on trigger for continual use and a supremely accurate (at any angle) height scale to precisely measure positions. Porter Cable's plate joiner has seven-position rotating depth stop to accommodate a variety of biscuit sizes and depths, and a spindle lock mechanism for simple blade changes. For standard and face-frame biscuits, Porter Cable's Deluxe Plate Joiner Kit includes both 2in and 4in diameter blades. The kit also includes a centering plate, dust bag, a chip deflector, Allen wrench, and a carrying case for portability and convenience.

DEWALT offers a similar Heavy-Duty Plate Joiner with 6.5 amps and no load speed of 10,000 rpm; tough enough to work through even the hardest wood. The DW682K offers a dual rack and pinion system that ensures the blade and fence are always parallel for the most accurate joints - every time. The one piece fence is also adjustable with a 0-90 degree tilt, and, at zero degrees, a flush cut can be made without removing the fence. Additionally, the fence has a locating notch at 45 degrees that allows indexing off the outside surface of a mitered joint: in other words, the fence has a positive lock at 45 degrees to keep your joints always accurate. With a no marring, heavy-duty aluminum shoe, the joiner can be clamped down for stationary work - and has retractable, anti-slip pins to help hold your work in place, and preset depth stops for all common biscuit sizes. DEWALT's joiner kit comes with a carbide blade, dust bag, a vacuum adapter, Torx key, wrench, and a heavy-duty kit box for security. The DW682K comes with DEWALT's one year free service contract, and a three year limited warranty.

Makita also provides an excellent option in biscuit joinery. Their 3901 plate joiner runs on 5.6 amps, and with a no load speed of 10,000 rpm. Although with slightly less amps, the tool is strong enough to make the tight, and lasting joints craftsmen expect from biscuit joinery. Makita's joiner has a one-touch 6 depth setting that allows for immediate depth change when working, and accommodates most common biscuit sizes. Makita's 3901 also features a shaft lock for fast, simple blade changes, and easy to operate cam locks for added security. With a cast aluminum pivot fence with positive stops at 0, 45, and 90 degrees the joiner is always accurate and precise, and is designed to quickly and simply make strong and durable plate joints. The tool has a maximum cut depth of 25/32in, a large top grip handle, no mar rubber strip insert, and is double insulated for additional security/safety on the job. Makita's 3901 plate joiner includes a carbide tipped blade (4in in diameter), an angle guide, dust bag, lock nut wrench, set plate, inner flange, lock nut, and a plastic tool case for convenience and portability. The tool is just over a foot long and weighs 6.2 lbs.

Pocket-hole technology involves drilling an angled hole into one workpiece and joining it to another with a self-tapping screw. This process eliminates tedious drilling applications, and provides a fast, strong joint in which the screw acts as a permanent internal clamp pulling and holding two workpieces together. Kreg offers a Jig Master System specifically designed for pocket-hole joinery. The K3MS is effectively two tools in one having interchangeable drill guide blocks that can shift between bench-top and portable bases. The tool has an easy access, spring-loaded, front-side clamp that eliminates reaching around big panels to get to your toggle clamps; it keeps everything within arms reach so you can maintain speed and greater ease on the job.

Kreg offers a three-hole drill guide with a hardened steel core that helps you perfectly place pocket holes even in a variety of widths and thicknesses. This steel core also protects bits by keeping them completely covered, and supports work pieces throughout the entire drilling process. This technology reduces bit deflection and tear-out, and provides a clean, smooth, and plug-able pocket-hole. Kreg's jig also has a material support stop that can be set at any distance from the jig enabling you to repeat the same pocket-hole numerous times. This stop can also swing or flip out of the way to act also as a height support for large panels. Additionally, Kreg utilizes an optimized drilling angle specifically configured to enhance driving efficiency and reduce the pocket-hole's overall size to less than 1-1/2in. A wood-chip relief system -which consists of one wood-chip relief hole per every drill guide hole - keeps messy debris out of your drill bits and decreases drill torque output, thus increasing the life of your drill bits. This system allows the user to make smooth pocket-holes in only one plunge. Kreg jigs are built with an unique composite material that is flexible, resilient and also strong and durable; each jig is also built in-part with heavy-duty glass-reinforced nylon that maintains its strength and longevity.

Each of these joinery options is unique and provides professional results and professional strength to your joints. Both biscuit joinery, and pocket-hole joinery offer simple and strong solutions to achieving the perfect woodworking joint.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

7 Rules to Making Perfect Biscuits From Scratch Every Time - Plus 1 Great Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe

Making biscuits is not an exact science, but it does require some basic tips and techniques to get the job done right. Take any any biscuit recipe you have (see below), apply these 7 simple rules to that recipe, and you will be making perfect homemade scratch biscuits every time.

1) Use a good low-gluten, soft-wheat flour.

2) Sift the flour one time by itself, then sift it again with the other dry ingredients in the recipe. This will create the perfect lightness for your biscuits.

3) The flakiest, best-textured biscuits are made when using lard as the fat in the biscuit recipe. If you do not feel good about using all lard for your biscuits, try using half lard and half vegetable shortening. But never use any vegetable oils in any biscuit recipe.

4) Chill the bowl and the fat used, and work quickly to keep the fat from melting. Every grain of flour needs to be covered in fat in order to prevent the flour's gluten from being activated by the water. If you activate the gluten, you will end up with a hard, heavy biscuit.

5) Buy a good biscuit cutter that makes a nice, sharp cut. It should also allow air to escape (an open top), which gives biscuits the chance to rise properly.

6) Pat the biscuit dough out only one time. Re-rolling dough will cause the gluten in the biscuit recipe to toughen the dough, making very heavy and dense biscuits.

7) To bake evenly, turn the baking sheet around one time during the baking. If baking more than one cookie sheet full of biscuits at a time, switch the positions of the pans once during cooking.

Before baking powder was ever invented, cooks always used buttermilk in biscuits. This would help them rise. Although it still works today, people go more for the flavor buttermilk provides than for its ability to rise the biscuit dough.

Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups good soft-wheat flour
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons lard, well chilled
2 tablespoons vegetable shortening, chilled
1 cup chilled buttermilk

Directions:

Position the oven rack in the middle, and preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a baking sheet.

Sift the flour, then sift together all dry ingredients in a large bowl. With a large fork or pastry blender, blend in the lard and vegetable shortening until a course meal is formed.

Pour in the buttermilk, and stir together ingredients until a sticky dough is formed.

Flour your hands and a pastry board or counter top. Turn out the dough and knead it gently, just 4 to 6 times. Pat out the dough until it is about 1/2 inch thick.

Cut the dough with a 2 to 3-inch round biscuit cutter, or a round cookie cutter.

Move the biscuits to the baking sheet, arranging them so they just barely tough each other. Bake the biscuits for about 10 minutes, or until raised and golden brown in color (Remember to turn the baking sheet at the halfway point).

Serve the biscuits hot and with butter.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Homemade Biscuit Recipe

The following recipe is what is called making biscuit's from scratch - My Grandmother made them like this, but mother was lazy and opted for the canned variety - that we all know taste, well not that great.

Making biscuits from scratch is not hard at all - it takes us about 20 minutes from beginning to out of the oven and ready to eat. They taste so much better and you can have quality time with the kids making them - Why? Because there is a cookie cutter involved and it's like working with Play-Doh!

Ingredients:

2 ¼ cups of all-purpose flour (never really tried anything else)

3 teaspoons of baking powder

½-teaspoon salt

½ cup of shortening (Crisco)

1-cup milk (we use buttermilk)

Cooking Directions:

Preheat Oven to 450 F. degrees

In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Using blender, cut shortening into flour until consistency of course meal. Pour in milk; stir with fork until mixture leaves sides of bowl and forms a soft moist dough, toss lightly until no longer stocky, Roll out to ½ inch thick, and cut with 2-inch floured cookie cutter. Place on un-greased cookie sheet. Bake biscuits in oven on middle or top rack at 450 degrees for 8-12 minutes or until lightly golden. Serve hot with butter and favorite jams and jelly or honey. Makes about 12-15 biscuits.

For snacks throughout the morning leave the left over biscuits plated on the top of the stove, and they can ad peanut butter, or their favorite spreads for a mid morning treat.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Red Lobster Cheddar Biscuit Recipe - always delicious

It may seem a bit 'silly, but one of my favorite things to go to Red Lobster garlic cheese biscuits! You come from the meals, and the man are delicious! So I searched for a while 'for the right recipe for making them. I say good because I met a couple who should be the same, but does not taste right at the end has come. Now I make this recipe for more family meetings and the work, events, and are always a great success! I found myselfto quadruple the recipes with "loans" to be done.

Red Lobster Cheddar Biscuit Recipe

2 cups buttermilk biscuit mix (like Bisquick or Jiffy mix or from scratch)
1 / 2 teaspoon garlic powder
January 1-1 / 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese.
2 / 3 cups milk
2 tablespoons butter
Teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon garlic salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray baking sheet with nonstick spray.

Combine in a bowl: 2 cupsButtermilk biscuit mix, powder 1 / 2 teaspoon garlic, and Jan. 1 and 1 / 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese and mix.

Add 2 / 3 cups of milk and a. If the mixture seems a bit 'too dry, mix, add a little' more, but just enough for a bit 'sticky! If they are too moist, they are flat and burn.

Create large chunks of teaspoons of the mixture and put it on the baking sheet. Pop in oven on a timer for 10 minutes. While cooking, melt 2 tablespoons butterTeaspoon oregano, 1 teaspoon garlic salt in a bowl.

When the final ten minutes to remove the cookies and cover the tip of the mix with the butter.

Put them in the oven for 5-6 minutes or until lightly browned.

If you prefer, you can view it with garlic-herb butter brush again and let it soak before serving.

Have fun!

I hope that as big a hit as you have for me. Happy cooking!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Really cheap and easy recipes - baked biscuit Hamburger, Spoon Bread, pink flannel hash

With so many people outside of work and almost all of us to watch our finances, good value family meals even more important. Here are some recipes that my grandmother's meals that are light, cheap but delicious. These recipes have to be a hit with the whole family and save money on your food budget. Biscuit Hamburger Bake is fast, easy, cheap and meat, vegetables, bread and milk in a court. Spoon bread is an old recipe from Tennessee for aType of corn bread baked in a bread pan. Pink flannel hash used tuna, potatoes, eggs, etc. for a quick, inexpensive meal. So take heart, and give these recipes to try to help you save money on your trip to the grocery store.

HAMBURGERS BISCUIT BAKE

This recipe is a community in the south of the old cookbook Indiana, where I was born and raised.

1 pound ground beef
1 / 2 cup chopped onion
1 can of condensed vegetable soup
1 / 2 tablespoon oregano
A pinch of pepper
1 can refrigerated biscuits
1 / 2 cup sour cream
1 / 2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a large skillet, cook ground beef with onion until meat is browned and onion is soft, drain them well to remove fat. Stir in the can of soup, oregano, and pepper heat bubble. The mixture in a 2-liter pot, butter. with cookies. Top Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove from oven. Spread sour cream over the> Biscuits then top with cheese. Return to oven and bake for 10 minutes.

SPOON BREAD

This is an old recipe Tennessee hills.

2 cups white cornmeal
2 1 / 2 cups boiling water
1 1 / 2 tablespoons melted butter
1 1 / 2 teaspoon salt
2 egg yolks, beaten
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 1 / 2 cups buttermilk
2 egg whites, beaten

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Add the cornmeal slowly into boiling water. Let stand for 3 minutes. Butter to the mixture of corn flour.Mix salt, egg yolks, baking powder and buttermilk. Fold the egg and then in a greased pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes.

PINK FLANNEL HASH

This ancient recipe was a clipping I found in a box of recipes from my late mother. I have no idea where they were clipping.

1 / 3 cup butter or margarine
1 cup chopped onion (1 large)
2 cups finely chopped red bell pepper
1 / 2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
2 cups frozen Southern-style fried potatoes IdahoPotatoes
1 can (6 1/2-7 oz) tuna, drained and flaked
4 eggs

In a large skillet melt butter, sauté onions and peppers until tender crisp. Stir in Tabasco sauce and potatoes. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, until potatoes are soft and golden (about 15 minutes). Stir in tuna. Make four wells in potato mixture, break an egg into each well. Cover and set are 3 or 4 minutes or until the eggs. Garnish with fresh parsley.

Serves 4.

Have fun!

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Biscuit Manufacturing

Biscuit has the following automated production processes.

MIXING: This is a process in which all the ingredients put together in the right proportion to form paste. These ingredients are then mixed in a mixer and dough is ready is ready for molding power. main ingredients are flour, fat, sugar and others for the product you want to have. dough temperature plays an important role. The temperature varies from 35-40 degrees centigrade. Low and high temperatureshave an effect on the consistency of paste.

PRESS: In this section we rolled the dough into sheets, then pass the measure reached on rollers and plate thickness for cutting. Here's a knife or a winding machine according to variety, where you get the shape and size of biscuits. Moulder speed range 20-40

Cheeks: This is the area where we shape these cookies into the oven moist. The biscuits are cooked to desired temperature. Various types of heatingstand today as ever, convenience and cost. Various types of furnaces available. The cooking time varies from 3 minutes to 8 minutes after the application of the law on product liability.

COOLING: The baked biscuits are then passed to the package before cooling conveyors for natural cooling. The temperature raised to room temperature. It should be between 35-40 degrees centigrade.

Boxing: These biscuits are stacked and then packaged food packaging. Several packagingMaterial for the packaging of these cookies in different packages available. Slug-packs, pouch pack or family packs etc. These packs are then placed in a secondary packaging such as cartons are transported to retailers. Packaging can be selected as the ability to plant and the type of packaging. packaging normal speed ranges from 80 to 100 packages per minute.

Ingredients: flour, fat, sugar, lecithin, salt, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate and flavorings mayare nuts, cocoa, coconut powder, onion, garlic, etc.

Packaging materials: rolled, tape, stickers, etc.

machinery, equipment and machinery: Mixers, laminator, roll arms, knives, planing, ovens, conveyors, encoders, packaging machines, printers, etc.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Dog biscuit recipe

A good dog biscuit recipe is a great thing to have when you have more of a dog passing o. dog biscuits can own your very fun, and no doubt your dog will be thrilled. Of course you want to try some recipes to ensure that quality as well. To leave a closer examination of dog biscuits recipes, how to save your dog, and some big puppy dog you can try out for so long.

Save your dogDog Biscuits
Yes, it is true that you are the owner of the dog biscuit recipe or even make your own dog food, a dog you save the. From what, you ask? Well, you can save them from disease and premature death. You see, many studies are beginning to show, can be dangerous as commercial products, dog food for your dog, with harmful chemicals, preservatives and other factors which may actually end up killing the dogs in the long run. So, some great recipes to help save the life of your dogso you have more time together.

2 recipes to try:

Not sure where to start? Need a good recipe dog biscuit? Here are two great recipes, you can try.

- Dog Biscuits with molasses - molasses dog biscuits are really easy to do. You only need about two tablespoons of molasses, a couple of eggs, half cup of powdered milk, half cup of chicken broth, two cups of corn meal, and then a couple of cloves of garlic, too. CombineAll these ingredients together, roll out and cut out dog biscuits with a knife or a knife. Bake for 20 minutes at 400 until well brown.

- Biscuits base for your dog - just for a basic dog biscuit? Now you have 3 tablespoons of wheat germ, about two cups of whole wheat flour, two eggs and ¼ cup of milk. Whisk the eggs until very well, then the other liquids. Add the other ingredients and then start thewith your hands to mix everything together. Pat into a nice rectangle about half an inch thick, and start cutting the shapes of the bones of the paste. Place in a baking dish and bake for 25 minutes on each side at 350 and get about 16 biscuits

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Biscuit joinery and pocket hole technology for lovers of woodworking

working as craftsmen, a perfect combination of demand for wood hung over the heads of many professional commitment. To achieve this goal for joints smooth, strong and durable are investigated are many methods to choose from. Techniques such as biscuits or ways carpenter and craftsman pocket hole plate offer individual and effective to create a common efficient and strong. Each method offers a different and more effective to improve the strength of the joints.

Biscuit joiner plateinvolves the insertion of a cookie in an oval or crescent-shaped slit in the wood is cut from the opposite edges of two parts 2 cookies are pre-cut, oval-shaped pieces of pressed wood, ranging in size from 1/2in to - 1/4in long. There are also cookies in plastic, aluminum and steel for special applications, but as a general rule, cookies are used on the wood of the most important. Biscotti (dabbed with glue) are placed into small slits speciallywood, same shape as the cookie is to put the two pieces of wood to form a strong, durable joint locked. Cookies tend to enjoy the glue applied to them from the beginning, the stronger is the effect that they swell and close the joint, e. Porter Cable, Makita and Dewalt any offer high quality carpentry plate with individual and unique features that fit your needs, and build better joints.

Porter Cable offers a luxuryPlate kit with a powerful 7.5 amps and 10,000 rpm. The carpenter has many features, including a simplification of the bonding process: micro height adjustment knob centered to give a clear exactly cookies, and a 1in OD (outside diameter) brings dust, or Bags working with Simply connect to a standard empty. The DW682K fence tilt from 0 to135 degrees with an adjustable positive stop at 90 degrees, dancing on the fence over the handle (rather than the engine) for the casegreater stability and control when cutting. The carpenter has a lock on the trigger for continuous use and extremely accurate (at any angle) scale to measure the height of precise positions. Porter Cable plate joiner has seven positions in depth, addressing a variety of sizes and depths biscuit, and a mechanism that locks the spindle to accommodate changes of the blade easy. For the standard and face-frame biscuits, Porter Cable Deluxe Plate Kit provides 2in and 4in diameter blades. The kitcentering a plate, dust bag, a guide clamp, wrench and carrying case for portability and convenience.

DEWALT Heavy-Duty has a similar plate 6.5 amps and no-load speed of 10,000 rpm hard enough to work even harder wood. The DW682K features a dual rack and pinion system, the blade and fence are always parallel for accurate joints provides - at any time. The one-piece fence is adjustable with a slope of 00-90 degrees, andzero degree can be a wire cutting, no fence will be made. In addition, the fence is a notch to 45 degrees, the index allows the outer surface of a mitered joint, in other words, the fence is a positive stop at 45 degrees to keep the joints always correct. With a non-marring, heavy shoe aluminum can, the carpenters, which are locked to the stationary work - and has sunk to help the anti-slip studs, keeping your job and preset depth stops for all common biscuitSizes. DEWALT carpenter kit comes with a carbide blade, dust bag, vacuum adapter, Torx key, wrench, and a high performance kit-box for security. The DEWALT DW682K comes with one year free service contract and a guarantee of three years.

Makita also offers an excellent opportunity to biscuit joinery. Your plate joiner 3901 runs on 5.6 amps, and not having a load speed of 10,000 rpm. Although with a little amp 'less, the instrument is powerful enough to make close and lasting ties Handymanexpected of biscuit joinery. Makita is a carpenter has a one-touch 6 depth setting that can change for an immediate depth to the work, and home to the most common size cookie. Makita 3901 is a spindle lock for quick and easy blade change and easy to use cam locks for added security. With an aluminum guide with positive pin stops at 0 degrees, 45 and 90, the carpenter is always accurate and precise, and is designed to quickly and easily make joints strong and durable panel. L '25/32in instrument has a maximum depth of cut, a large top-handle insert, no rubber bands Mar, and is twice for added security and safety at work in isolation. Makita 3901 is a disk contains a joiner carbide blade (4 inches in diameter), an angle guide, dust bag, hex key set flat, inner flange, lock nut and a carrying case for convenience and mobility. The instrument is only a foot long and weighs 6.2 pounds.

Pocket-hole technology includes an angled hole in aWorkpiece and acceded to the other with a screw plate. This process eliminates tedious drilling applications and provides a fast and strong common, in which the screw acts as a permanent drive internal clamp and hold together two pieces. Kreg Jig Master System offers a specially designed for pocket hole joinery. The move K3MS actually two devices in one with interchangeable drill guide block, between desktop and mobile bases. The instrument has an easy access,spring loaded, front-end side, which for some drives great to get your terminal gag eliminated, it keeps everything in his arms, then quickly and easily get into the labor market.

Kreg offers a drill three pilot holes with a core of hardened steel, making it ideal for blind holes helps in a variety of widths and thicknesses. This protects the steel core bit to be completely covered, and supports the components during the drilling cycle. ThisBit technology reduces the standard deviation and tear, and provides a clean, smooth and plug-compatible pocket holes. Kreg Jig to stop material support that at any distance from the device so that it is possible to repeat the same number of pocket holes can be set. This fence can also act to swing or flip out of the way as a level support for large disks. It also uses an optimized drilling angle Kreg be specifically configured to improve the efficiency of driving, while the total budget holeSize of less than 1-1/2in. A wood-chip system rescue, which is a relief hole in wood chips for each hole drill guide - it keeps debris from the drill bit messy and drilling torque decreases, making the life of the drill. This system allows the user a good pocket-holes in a jump to make. Kreg devices are a unique composite material that is made flexible, resilient and stable and durable, each game is also in part with an integrated high-fiber reinforcedNylon maintains its strength and durability.

Each of these options lathe is unique and offers professional results and the professional strength of joints. Both biscuit joinery and carpentry pocket holes to provide simple solutions and powerful to get the perfect frame of wood.

Friday, September 10, 2010

FurReal Friends Biscuit My Lovin Pup Review

FurReal Friends Biscuit My Lovin 'Pup reviews said that this is probably the most realistic electronic puppy today. Sure, 'cookie' is a real dog, but he is very close properly. Of course would not do so out for a walk, but what about the things he does, has done very well. PET electronic toys have come a long way since they began again in mid 1980. Most of these animals barking and only moved a bit 'but. InIn fact, they were probably more scary or odd, as anything like a real pet was. At least that's how FurReal Friends Biscuit write the two compared.

The future is here more often, it is really science fiction. Not only are more computers crunching numbers or turning manual processes into automated systems and assembly lines. With technology advancing faster than we ever thought, are the producers of biscuits My Lovin 'Pupcreated something that borders on magic. FurReal Friends Biscuit My Lovin 'Pup reviews have suggested, see how your creation is realistic, if after a few minutes, while also addressing the puppy, like a real live dog, who was born as part of a litter and not find in a laboratory.

FurReal Friends Biscuit My reviews have said that part of why Biscuit seems so real, because the developers did a great job to make it looking real. He seeslike a stuffed animal that sits on a couch or a bed in a pile of other stuffed animals. Biscotti eyes seem to have that spark of life that the plastic or glass, in the eyes of another animal, not just puppets. Their eyes are blank, cold stare over hot biscuits, and when combined with his soft puppy barking and movements, it is difficult to remember information that it was a pet robot.

FurReal Friends Biscuit My Lovin 'Pup reviewsHit a lot of time went into the development of programs and software that resides within these puppies electronic brain. Like real dogs, Biscuit legs up on his hands, nod or shake, and even whimper when in the mood right. He can wag its tail, it can bark, and best of all that actually responds to you. The degree of interaction is simply amazing. FurReal Friends Biscuit A review suggests that although Biscuit not mislead anyone to think that he is a real animal, iseasily forgotten, and probably not even matter that he is a robot. That's where the magic is really true, he is the number of highly advanced mechanical parts that can move like a real dog, but the time for the software is released in behavior, where indicates the time and attention spent in its development .

Anyone can build a robot dog to bark and walk around, and many contributions to the knowledge of this fact about the contestants. to build, but a puppy is so real, and behaves in aSo that people really care to start? FurReal Friends Biscuit A review said that a performance. Imagine how your child will absolutely love this puppy. It will take care of him like any other pet and come to him with love as much sympathy. A further advantage is that you should not walk out with him and not all casinos in the interior of the house. All you need to consider how much fun he brought to your children andperhaps the whole family. FurReal Friends Biscuit My Lovin 'One' Pup Post said it was a great surprise baby, every child would receive as a gift this holiday season.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Good, The Bad, The Biscuit

The humble dog biscuits ever been around in various forms and sizes. This little gift was responsible for training dogs almost as long as man has had this special relationship with his dog.

But what you do as a dog owner to know the humble dog biscuits?

How many of you should give your dog during an average day?

What are the ingredients in the mixed area is give our best friend every day?

These are the cookies that we give our dogs packedwith vitamins and minerals that our dogs are health, improve, or are full of fat, sodium and sugar, the unholy trinity?

Cookies can reward quality to be fed your dog treat or snack, or simply be mixed as with his flesh as his main meal.

Most manufacturers of dog biscuits is a quantity of food as follows;

Size of the dog's weight Quantity of heat wave
Toy up to 5 kg up to 3 Biscuits
Small 6-10kg up to 7 Biscuits
Medium 11 - 22kgUp to 14 biscuits
23-35kg Up to 21 large cookies
Very Large Plus 36kg until 24 cookies

We must remember that these figures are only a guide for the consumer that an individual needs dogs Depending on size, age and condition vary.

It 'very important to always have fresh drinking water for your dog 24 / 7

Typical ingredients are dog biscuits, cereals, oils and fats, meat and animal products, minerals, herbal derivatives,certain dyes and antioxidants.

When you buy dog biscuits do not show the ingredients, or worse still not showing, minerals and antioxidants, so you should avoid oil,

When you buy dog biscuits for your dog always read the labels of food ingredients. Quality manufacturer of dog biscuits that the typical analysis of vitamins and minerals in the cookie, as follows.

Protein 10%
Oils and Fats 5.0%
Fibre 2.0%
Ash 4.5%
VitaminA 4500 IU / kg
Vitamin D 450 IU / kg
Vitamin E 45mg/kg
Copper as copper sulfate 10 mg / kg

It 'important to note that levels of vitamin when they begin to decrease when the pre biscuits from the best.

You may humble dog biscuits can be an important part of any form of dog food, and it is important to be sure That food is healthy, nutritious and healthy first.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Biscuits: Sweet Potato Biscuit Recipe and a cheese biscuit recipe

One of the most delicious recipes for breakfast in autumn is sweet potato biscuits. We are pleased to offer
their parties, making a mini version, cut with a cutter of an inch in diameter and put ham on it.
If you from where we were from six to put Smithfield ham, is not really one of the best
The best ham in the world. However, we hope you try these sweet potato biscuits.

Sweet Potato BiscuitRecipe

2 cups sweet potatoes - cooked and mashed

4 cups flour increases

1 stick butter - melted

02:01 tea soda

02:01 tea baking powder

1 1 / 4 cups buttermilk

3 tablespoons sugar

Mix sweet potatoes, butter and milk until well mixed. Mix the flour, baking powder
Soda and sugar. Form a ball and knead 8-10 times on board well floured.
Spread 3/4-1 inch thick and cut with 2 "biscuit cutter. Bake on a greased baking dish in apreheated
Oven 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes until very light golden brown. Your Smithfield ham with some good and you're ready to go!

For about 15

Note: I like to mash raw sweet potatoes instead of tiny spots of sweet potato gently get a
see the finished biscuits.

If you want an easy and secret guide to low-milk cheese biscuits, Get Bisquick low fat and low-fat cheddar cheese.
Hide the box. It is not as good as fresh, butFew people guess his secret.

Almost everyone loves cookies that loves cheese biscuits. To a large cookie recipe, please visit our recipe-of-the-week
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Enjoy and please let us know what you think. We love to hear from people.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

How to Make Old Fashion Mayonnaise Biscuits and Homemade Biscuit Mix

Go back to grandma's recipe box and pull out these recipes for some delicious old fashion biscuits. You will be surprised what mayonnaise does for biscuits. And the homemade biscuit mix--with a biscuit recipe--makes some great old-time biscuits.

HOMEMADE BISCUIT MIX

8 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup baking powder
4 tsps salt
1 cup lard* for soft wheat flour or 1 1/2 cups lard for hard wheat flour

Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut lard into flour mixture with a fork or pastry blender until the mixture has a fine even crumb. Cover and store in the refrigerator until ready to use. This mixture will keep at least a month in the refrigerator. Yield: 10 cups biscuit mix.

TO MAKE BISCUITS:

Add 1/2 cup milk to 2 cups Homemade Biscuit Mix. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently for 1/2 minute. Pat or roll to 1/2-inch thickness and cut with a medium size cutter or lip of a water or juice glass that has been dipped in flour. Bake in a very hot oven (450 degrees) for 12 to 15 minutes or until brown. Yield: 10 to 12 biscuits.

*Solid shortening may be substituted for lard if you prefer.

MAYONNAISE BISCUITS

2 cups self-rising flour
4 tbsp mayonnaise
1 cup milk

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Grease two six cup or one 12 cup muffin tins and set aside.

Stir all the ingredients together until well mixed. Divide dough evenly among the 12 muffin cups. Bake at 450 degrees until brown.

Enjoy!