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I have an easy biscuit recipe that you can try. I am not sure they would be good enough for Christmas dinner, but they are low fat and will be less hard when cold than the frozen or canned ones. You can try this early and decide if you like them.
2 cups self-rising flour--I use Southern Biscuit
1 cup milk
1/4 cup mayonnaise--low fat works, but no fat does not. I was out of mayonnaise the other day and used 1/4 cup Shedd calcium spread. You have to stir it up better for the spread.
Stir together and drop by tablespoon into a 9X13 size glass dish after you spray it with cooking spray or butter the bottom of the cooking dish. I find that they make about 12 biscuits and by cooking them in the dish they turn out in squares. I cook them in a 400 degree oven for about 20 minutes. It is all right to brush them with a little margarine or butter so they will brown on top. I find they brown on the bottom better than on top probably because of the butter in the pan.
BTW those cheese garlic biscuits are cooked much the same way from a Martha White mix you can find in Dollar General. You might want to take both kinds in two different containers. They taste good cold too.
Pillsbury makes a line of NON frozen biscuits, called Perfect Portions. They come in a box of 8, in the dairy case, near the "GRANDS" location. Two varieties: ButterMilk and ButterTastin. The ButterTastin are better tasting.
When I cook them, I take a sharp knife and score a tic-tac-toe set of lines in the top, then smear soft margarine into the scored top. This not only adds great flavor, but it allows these biscuits to REALLY expand and be fluffy, instead of staying small hockey pucks. Try it sometime. Works GREAT. For EXTRA fun, leave one UN-scored and see the difference in size and flavor.
Aside from homemade, the best biscuits that I have ever eaten are from Sam's Club. They are not frozen or refrigerated. They come in a big tray/box of about 2 dozen. You just take them from the box and finish cooking them for about 10 minutes. They are delicious, and they look just like homemade.
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Pillsbury makes a line of NON frozen biscuits, called Perfect Portions. They come in a box of 8, in the dairy case, near the "GRANDS" location. Two varieties: ButterMilk and ButterTastin. The ButterTastin are better tasting.
When I cook them, I take a sharp knife and score a tic-tac-toe set of lines in the top, then smear soft margarine into the scored top. This not only adds great flavor, but it allows these biscuits to REALLY expand and be fluffy, instead of staying small hockey pucks. Try it sometime. Works GREAT. For EXTRA fun, leave one UN-scored and see the difference in size and flavor.
We like the frozen that I get at WalMart, MaryB's. They taste just like my aunt's homemade ones. WalMart is the only place I have ever been able to find them.
You lucked out with your assignment. What could be easier or cheaper than biscuits? Use the Bisquick, stir some love in them instead of the God knows what they put in the dairycase ones. You can make them the day before, cool completely and store in a baggie. Put some melted butter on top and warm them in the oven just before you serve them.
I dont think it is appropriate to bring previously frozen or tube breads to a dinner.
If a person is brining something to a potluck, bring what you do well and what you can put some love into - not something from a popping tube that you then stick in the oven
Here is an easy, simple and quick recipe.
From the cookbook "How It All Vegan!" by Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer
"Biscuits"
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 cup sour soy milk (soy milk + 1 tsp vinegar) (note to non-vegans, you can do this with regular milk too, or use buttermilk.) I add in some "olive oil dipping spices"
1/4 tsp pepper
Preheat oven to 450ºF. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the oil, sour milk, "spices" and pepper and mix together gently until "just mixed." Spoon into lightly oiled muffin tins. Bake for 12-18 minutes. Makes about 6 biscuits.
I dont think it is appropriate to bring previously frozen or tube breads to a dinner.
If a person is brining something to a potluck, bring what you do well and what you can put some love into - not something from a popping tube that you then stick in the oven
Thank you. I thought I was left all alone out here with people buying their toxic chemical filled frozen or boxed biscuits.
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