What is a biscuit (in southern US style cooking)?

Answer 1

Its a handmade & baked bread, made of flour, shortening and milk or buttermilk. You cut the flour into the shortening till it resembles coarse cornmeal, then stir in the milk, mix it up good and flour the outside so it wont stick to your hands, then knead it a lil more, then you can roll it out with a rolling pin and use a cutter or do it the Southern way and drop it off by hand and pat it out. Bake it till its golden ..its usually Sunday breakfast, along with sausage gravy and fried potatoes, lol. How do I know? I live in Kentucky, home of chicken and biscuits and Ive made biscuits since I was about 12.

Answer 2

Biscuit: In America, biscuits refer to small quick breads, which often use leaveners like baking powder or baking soda. Biscuits are generally savory (but can be sweet), and the texture should be tender and light.

Here is a typical Southern Biscuit Recipe:
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons shortening
1 cup chilled buttermilk
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats to melt.)
Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.
Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey, that's life.)
Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes

Answer 3

Biscuits are a form of quick bread, meaning you don't have to let them rise and they are not made with yeast. And there are many many recipes for biscuits. There are beaten biscuits which are very dense (almost like a cracker and great with old ham), beer biscuits, buttermilk, cheddar biscuits etc etc. Biscuits are great with butter and honey or jam/jelly/preserves as a snack or with eggs and bacon. They are also great with sausage and milk gravy for breakfast. If you eat biscuits with a meal other than breakfast butter the biscuit or use it to clean up the gravy on the plate.

Check out the sites below or conduct your own search for biscuits. And a shortcut to make biscuits use Bisquick. The recipe is on the box. Or just pick up a package of Pillsbury biscuits at the grocery.

Answer 4

To bad about about the cornbread. Banana pudding, you know the fresh banana sliced with vanilla wafers and with either banana or vanilla pudding or peach cobbler. Mac and Cheese is also a southern staple, It is one of the special Sunday dinner side dishes. You could do smothered chicken, but that is sorta pricey for a school potluck, You could also go on line to the Paula Dean site she is the Southern Cook on TV When it comes to drinks in the South sweet tea is probably the most popular, but butter milk was my Grandmothers favorite with dinner. Other than those the only other thing I have ever seem my family drink is Barbour (mint juleps) I would not do greens or Okra, most kids don;t like them unless they have been eating them since they were kids.

Answer 5

It's like a big flaky bread roll. Really fluffy, or at least they should be. You can split them in half and slather them with butter or jam. Or put gravy on top of them for breakfast. Pillsbury Flaky Grands are the best from the store.

I have rotten luck making flaky biscuits.

Answer 6

1 1/2 Cups Floor
1/2 Cup butter, mot melted
1/4 TSP Salt
1 TBS Baking powder
1 TBS Sugar
1/2 Cup Butter Milk

All dry ingreidents into a bowl, stir with fork
With fingers, work butter into dry indgreidents
Add Buttermilk
Knead 10 times
Form into ball
Roll out with Rolling Pin on a floored surface
Brush wiith melted butter (Can sprinkle 1/2 with raisens)
and fold half onto of othe half
Roll out to about 2/4 inch thick
Use drinking glasss or other cutter to cut out Biscuits
place on sheet pan,
Bake until golden brown (400 Degrees)

Answer 7

a biscuit is a bread roll u can get them in your grocers refrigerators Pillsbury's makes a good biscuit