SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS!

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (CookieMonster84)

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:17:12 GMT

I agree - get back to basics. If I am really craving some biscuits, I will buy Grands Buttermilk Biscuits and bake them in the oven and then drizzly honey and a little butter on top...mmm...

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Bigdave125)

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:13:19 GMT

I may be missing something here, but what's wrong with "Bisquick"???

Get "Bisquick Complete" package at your local grocery store, follow directions on the package. Can't go wrong.

BTW, People here react to drop bisquits like its the plague or something! I grew up in Tennessee and Georgia and my Mom made me drop bisquits all the time! To me they are so much better than regular rolled biscuits! JMO.

Bigdave125

Link:
bettycrocker.com/products/bisquick/product-list.htm

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Sundancer7)

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:50:31 GMT

I sincerely wish I could duplicate Hardee's biscuits. I have tried many times but I cannot. When they are hot and fresh, they are to bsicuits what Krispy Kreme is to doughnuts when they are hot and fresh.

Sometimes I go to Hardee's and just get a couple of their hot fresh biscuits.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (MetroplexJim)

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:31:22 GMT

Kuby's Sausage Haus in Snider Plaza (across Hillcrest from Southern Methodist University), University Park (Dallas), TX. http://www.kubys.com

A true German deli/Restautant, they serve a plate-sized biscuit with outrageously good sausage gravy. (Just around the corner is the best BBQ in Dallas: Peggy Sue's and the best fried chicken/home cookin': Bubba's).

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Sundancer7)

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:12:35 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by Ciaoman

Just slightly off topic...

I recently found a great product at a Wal-Mart SuperCenter in CT: Libby's Country Sausage Gravy (in a can). Wow...I was amazed as to how good it was. As good as homemade? Probably not, but being from CT, I haven't had that many versions of homemade gravy. All I know is that when I poured that over some freshly-baked Pillsbury frozen buttermilks, I was pretty sure I could smell the scent of magnolias! All kidding aside, a very good product, especially when you can't make your own.

I do make my own sausage gravy when I fry sausage but it is not always available. I have several cans of the libby's sausage gravy in the pantry and it works really good. I always add more pepper to it though.

I have also found that when I make my own gravy, I do not always have milk available as I never use milk as a beverage. I have tried using water instead and quite frankly, I can tell very little difference. I take the residual crubles and grease from the sausage and add a couple of teaspoons of flour, get it pretty and brown and add enough water for my use, let it get hot and stir like crazy until I get the desired consistency. I add enough black pepper to give it a kick and then I Pour it over the sausage and my baked frozen biscuits with some mello Joy coffee and my ugly dog and myself really enjoy it.

I am also a fan of the frozen Pillsbury frozen biscuits. They work real good for me.

Paul E. Smith
knoxville, TN

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Midwestgirl)

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:10:34 GMT

I personally gave up on trying to master the biscuit recipe. I have not a clue what I do wrong. Either they are too flat to doughy, heavy. Mike I have made biscuits that look like those also. So you are not alone. I now use those frozen Pillsbury biscuits. They taste like a great southern biscuit, fluffy and light and buttery. But hey, I will give iqdiva's recipe a try no doubt.

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Foodbme)

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:53:59 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by Ciaoman

Foodbme, you're absolutely right. And that's why I'm traveling to TN in a few weeks to see my darlin' daughter and son-in-law. Because I miss them? Well sure, but more than that, I need a fix of B & G! Last time I was down there, I hit Loveless in Nashville...delish!

I lived in Brentwood,TN for 4 years and my daughter currently lives in Franklin TN, we visit often. Both are suburbs of Nashville. Suggest you get some Hardee's biscuits while there. Also Checkout Mrs. Winner's Chicken. Both have good stuff for Chains.If you want to get some mixes to take home, I suggest Mrs. White's or Dixie Lily.

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Ciaoman)

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:11:43 GMT

Foodbme, you're absolutely right. And that's why I'm traveling to TN in a few weeks to see my darlin' daughter and son-in-law. Because I miss them? Well sure, but more than that, I need a fix of B & G! Last time I was down there, I hit Loveless in Nashville...delish!

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Foodbme)

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:42:14 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by Ciaoman

Just slightly off topic...

I recently found a great product at a Wal-Mart SuperCenter in CT: Libby's Country Sausage Gravy (in a can). Wow...I was amazed as to how good it was. As good as homemade? Probably not, but being from CT, I haven't had that many versions of homemade gravy. All I know is that when I poured that over some freshly-baked Pillsbury frozen buttermilks, I was pretty sure I could smell the scent of magnolias! All kidding aside, a very good product, especially when you can't make your own.

You poor Guy. You need to sign up for the work release program, Get permission from your parole officer, Buy a ticket on Greyhound and head South! Starting in VA and any state below that should should introduce you to what Southern Biscuits are all about. Don't forget the Sausage gravy & red eye gravy. File a trip report when you get back!

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Ciaoman)

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:27:55 GMT

Just slightly off topic...

I recently found a great product at a Wal-Mart SuperCenter in CT: Libby's Country Sausage Gravy (in a can). Wow...I was amazed as to how good it was. As good as homemade? Probably not, but being from CT, I haven't had that many versions of homemade gravy. All I know is that when I poured that over some freshly-baked Pillsbury frozen buttermilks, I was pretty sure I could smell the scent of magnolias! All kidding aside, a very good product, especially when you can't make your own.

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Foodbme)

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:43:54 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by MikeS.

Hardee's is known as Carl's Jr. out West. I never tried the biscuits there though.

MikeS.

Are you shure I think they are 2 separate entities!

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (iqdiva)

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:41:43 GMT

Or,drive to Alabama to a good Southern cook's house !

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Foodbme)

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:39:35 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by A Creole Cook

Anyone have a suggestion for the best roadside/Southern place to have good biscuits?

Thanks in advance

You Live in LA, CA
Get in your Car, drive 3000 Miles SE until you get to GA. Go into any mom & pop Greasy Spoon!

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (dcwatts)

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:32:56 GMT

There was an Emmy Award-winning documentary making the rounds of Public Television a year or two ago called The Rise of the Southern Biscuit which is pertinent to this discussion for two reasons:

Footage of master biscuit-makers in action (Mike S. take note)
A valuable list of specific biscuit eateries throughout the Southeastern US

Here is a link: http://www.theriseofthesouthernbiscuit.com/Biscuit_DVD.asp

... mmmhm - now I'm thinking I should whomp up a double batch to have plenty of leftovers for that[url='http://www.roadfood.com/Recipes/Recipe.aspx?RecipeID=64']bread pudding recipe[/url] from the Blue Willow Inn!

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (scottyg)

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:38:06 GMT

Biscuits? I've lived in Nashville TN for over 20 years. Loveless USED to be great but I've heard mixed reviews since the sale a few years back. I got a "to go" order a year or so back and it didn't taste as good as I remember but that was only one try. I'd put MY money on the Beacon Light! It's about 15 miles past Loveless Cafe on Hwy 100 (headed toward Memphis). TOTALLY different biscuits but INCREDIBLE!! Along with the phenomenal brown and redeye gravy (that's hard to find nowadays) AND the preserves. Strawberry is my favorite! I'd put them up against Loveless ANY day of the week (or weekend). S

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (jmckee)

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:11:01 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by steveindurham

Biscuitville -NC
Tudor's Biscuit World -WV, parts of Va.

Really? We must have passed these places a hundred times over the years on our way to or from the Atlantic.

We'll have to check them out!

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (pocodinero)

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:48:03 GMT

Bisquets de Obregon in Cancun, Mexico (and throughout the country) are the best. If you are ever south of the (U.S.) border, make sure to try them.

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (steveindurham)

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:22:56 GMT

Biscuitville -NC
Tudor's Biscuit World -WV, parts of Va.

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (mollydingle)

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:43:00 GMT

With all due respect to our not-quite reconstructed friends,we Yanks have good biscuits,too. Just harder to find.
Ain't NO ONE makes better biscuits than my Mum, oozing butter and honey, with wild bluberry honey!

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Hillbilly)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:55:39 GMT

Best: Loveless in Nashville

2nd: Bojangles

3rd: Shatley Springs (between Jefferson, NC and Mouth of Wilson, VA)

4th: Hardee's

Cracker Barrell's aren't bad.

I always go for country ham or sausage gravy. For a sweet treat, mix some brown sugar or molasses with butter and slather that on a hot biscuit (the Pillsbury frozen biscuits are excellent for at home use).

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Adjudicator)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:53:36 GMT

It looks like iqdiva has straightened you out on this, but it appears THESE were Elly Mae Clampett biskits.

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (A Creole Cook)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:46:33 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by MikeS.

Well these sucked.

Didn't rise, dry, tasteless, just plain BAD.

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

MikeS.

WOW!
These biscuits (?) look awful!

Never seen anything that looked like these. may I ask how you made them?
Maybe you can use them as weapons LOL

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (iqdiva)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:25:04 GMT

Mike,if you are have any trouble with these biscuits let me know...I'll be happy to help in any way .

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (iqdiva)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:14:50 GMT

Quite alright Mike...Shaping:When I have lightly worked the lard and buttermilk into the flour in my dough tray ( or a mixing bowl if you don't have a dough tray )to a soft (not wet)dough,I knead it (again lightly because the two secrets of good biscuit making is to NOT overwork the dough and be sure to NOT add too much flour into the dough)3 or 4 turns right in the dough tray.Kneading on the counter or table top introduces too much flour into the dough and over works the dough.You want the dough to be just pliable enough to shape . Lightly flour your hands because the dough will be soft and slightly sticky.Pinch up pieces of the dough the size of a round dinner roll,about two or two and a half inches in diameter.Using your palms,shape into balls just as if you were making yeast rolls.Put in a heavily greased pan(I use a cast iron skillet or cast iron biscuit pan and use bacon grease or extra lard to grease the pan),with the balls just touching each other.After you get them in the pan,using your hands pat the tops of the biscuits down slightly.Dot them with butter (not margarine).Bake in a preheated 425 degree oven 20-25 minutes.Eat straight out of the oven while they're hot ! The secret to Southern biscuits is a light,light,light touch.Do not over work the dough or add too much flour.You do not roll the dough out...It will be over worked and you do not cut them out...Knead them Lightly in the dough tray or mixing bowl.Handle biscuit dough like you were handling a baby...With Love...Practice...It is well worth the effort to master the technique,because there is no biscuit in the country like a well prepared ,hot buttered SOUTHERN biscuit...It is a work of love and a piece of Southern kitchen art...

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (MikeS.)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:06:50 GMT

iqdiva, the statement was that these, the biscuits shown, sucked. It was all in MY total lack of having never made biscuits before. Nor much experience with dough either. Cornbread, cookies and cakes I make.

Didn't mean to insult your recipe. Sorry.

I was insulting my effort/failure.

I did use self rising flour but not White Lily.

Y'all talk about rolling/cutting. So I guess I roll the dough into a log shape and then cut it?

MikeS.

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (iqdiva)

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:01:14 GMT

I was just offering an authentic SOUTHERN biscuit recipe that my family had been making and adoring for at least 140 years...It is a technique and talent that has been passed down by word of mouth and by watching(as I did when Mama let me start helping make and PINCH,ROLL IN THE PALMS and bake the biscuit dough when I was just 3 years old) through generations of excellent southern cooks and bakers.

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (Jimeats)

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:01:02 GMT

Well fist of all get those biscuits off the foil. Use an UNgreased dark cookie sheet or tray. You can and obviously did drop the dough off a spoon, but the prefered method is to LIGHTY kneed the dough half a dozen times, let rest and roll out to desired thickness cut with a biscuit/ cookie cutter and place in preheated oven {middle rack}.
Buttermilk if you run out, substitute plain yogurt or add lemmon juice or white vinegar to whole milk and let sit for a short time.
I also find that it's not nesesarry to use self riseing flour. Do the soda and powder thing or cream of tartar. Cream of tartar makes for a lighter and higher rise bisciut. Chow Jim

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (iqdiva)

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:34:16 GMT

Thank you Agnesrob.That's sweet of you to say.Be sure and use SELF-RISING flour!

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (agnesrob)

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:32:16 GMT

iqdiva, I'm running out for some buttermilk right now! These sound great! Thanks for posting the recipe.

RE: SEEKING THE BEST most DELICIOUS BISCUITS! (iqdiva)

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:19:21 GMT

Mike,this is the recipe that I offered earlier in the thread.I have used all my life.I have never had a failure like that the biscuits that you offered photos representing,even as a 3 year old baking with my mother.I'm sure that you didn't mean to be rude,but I think that you should have attributed your baking failure to the lack of Southern biscuit making expertise rather than using a rude and tasteless word as "sucked".If you were not fond of the recipe so be it.It wasn't necessary to say anything.Merely use a recipe that you are more familiar with or are more comfortable.But,as I mentioned earlier,you obviously didn't follow my recipe.If you had your biscuits would certainly not have looked like those biscuits.Those are certainly not the same thing as my biscuits .Here again is my age-old,tried and true biscuit recipe:

Creole Cook,my "dough tray" is a family heirloom that belonged my great-grandmother Caroline...This little woman was all of 4'10'' tall ,was born in 1849 in Geneva County,Alabama,her father fought with General Lee in the Army of Northern Virginia,she survived Reconstruction,and thought that all the Yankees were "scallawags".When wheat flour was available again,that dough tray was busy making biscuits just the way I do with the exception of the self=rising flour...It wasn't invented yet. A dough tray is wooden and usually carved from oak or pecan wood.I think that mine is oak.Mine is about 24 inches long and 15 inches wide.It has a depression carved in the middle,almost like a bowl except more shallow.You put the flour in this depression.Make a "well" in the flour and add the lard and buttermilk.You then work the lard and buttermilk into the sides of the flour "well" with your fingers until you have a soft dough.You knead the dough just a few times LIGHTLY in the dough tray.Clean your fingers off.(Don't wear rings while you're doing this!)Then you pinch off biscuit-size pieces of dough and lightly roll into roll shaped balls .Put them in either a cast iron frying pan or do what I do.Use an old cast iron "biscuit pan" that's greased well with either peanut oil or best of all melted lard or bacon grease .Pat them down a little and put pats of butter on the tops.Bake for about 20-25 minutes at 425 degrees (preheated)until golden brown.
I'm guessing at proportions here because this is a thing that is taught by word of mouth and by feel...Here it is though:
About 2-2and one-half cups White Lilly Self-Rising Flour
About one-fourth cup lard
About one-half to three fourths cup buttermilk to make a soft,pliable dough
peanut oil,more lard or bacon grease to grease pan
real butter to put on top before you bake the biscuits
I hope this helps...These are real,true Southern Alabama biscuits! ENJOY!!!