Here is the recipe I used.

I scoured my memory and remembered this ancient recipe from god knows what book I read it in.

I figure since its stuck in my head, I’m free to post it here for everyone to read-

4 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons butter
1- 3/4 cups milk

Preheat oven to 400.

Sift the dry ingredients together a few times; cut and rub the butter into the mixture with the thumb and fingers the same way you would if you were making pie crust, add the milk gradually, mixing until it becomes a spongy mass, then fold and kneed the mixture until it turns into a solid dough.

Turn dough onto a well floured board, roll lightly until it is a large circle about 1 and a half inches thick. use a knife to cut the dough into squares and bake in 2 circular pie pans or on a large cookie sheet.
Bake for about 8-12 minutes depending on the size of the biscuits and the individual temperature of your oven.

This is a general baking soda biscuit recipe.
You can find one simular anywhere on the netneverbashfulwithbutter.comhttp://www.neverbashfulwithbutter.com, and in many baking cook books.

At the stage just before you add the milk, feel free to add flavourful dry ingredients to the mix.

Examples include but are not limited to-

1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese, Chilled or frozen (you can freeze shredded cheese and not have it form a large clumpy block if you shred the cheese into a small amount of cornstarch before freezing. The cornstarch keeps it from adhering to itself)

Or- 1/4 cup fresh chopped herbs

Or- about a tablespoon garlic powder
Or- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds, sesame seeds or any other EDIBLE, tasty and flavourful seed.
Just make sure whatever ingredients you add are dried or frozen (except the fresh herbs, they’re ok fresh or dried) so they’ hold up during the kneading process.

So, I made these biscuits by adding cheddar cheese to the mix as well as a little less than a tablespoon of garlic powder and they were wonderful.

The top of the biscuit was powdery and flaky and the inside of the biscuit was tender and delicious.
The bottom of the biscuit baked to perfection, not burnt or soggy.

So, Be creative with your biscuits. Try new things and revel in their deliciousness.

I say delicious way too often.

Oh goodness these are good. I had to keep myself from eating all of them.

Good thing I cut them into bite sized squares, and limited myself to 3 pieces. I WOULD HAVE EATEN THE WHOLE PAN HAD I NOT!

I love biscuits. I really do. I always have loved biscuits too.

Apparently, my favourite food at age 2 was buttered biscuits. There is documented proof of this in one of my moms scrap books. “Age 2, favourite food- Buttered biscuits. Favourite toy- owl squeeze toy. Favourite word- Stesanie ” (my sister’s name pronounced in a way that only an adorable 2 year old can pull off.)

I’m sure the buttered biscuits refered to in the text of my mom’s scrapbook were the kind from KFC. I’ve still got a soft spot for those things. I. LOVE. THEM. They are the only biscuits I’ll eat with margarine, THATS how good they are. But they’re way better with butter and honey. Mmmohgawd hot biscuits with melted butter and honey. That’s heaven right there.

The biscuits I made were not the sort you’d add honey to. Had I left out the cheese and the garlic, perhaps, but not even with my tastebuds of steel and my cravings for garlic toast with strawberry jam would pour honey on a garlic cheese biscuit.

I dont really remember my mom making biscuits very often in my younger years. I know that in the later years of my stay under my parents roof, she was always making drop biscuits for use in her strawberry shortcakes. She WAS OBSESSED with strawberry shortcakes. I dont think she is anymore.. But holy crap, for a few years there it seemed like that was all she was eating.

Bisquick drop biscuits the size of my clenched fist.

Now, I’m not a huge fan of bisquick biscuits, but there was just something mouth watering about these puppies. Maybe it was their sheer size that got my saliva glands goin, but I could not stop eating them. Thank goodness at some point she tired of strawberry shortcake for every other meal and so faded my urge to eat nothing but biscuits for breakfast lunch and dinner.

There was a period during my childhood when I know we ate KFC pretty regularly. Thats why I’m sure it was their biscuits that I loved and not something my mom made. I could be wrong though.

And since we’re on the topic of KFC, does anyone else remember when their food actually tasted good? I do. I wouldnt touch it with a ten foot pole now a days.

I watched a special on fast food history, and there was a segment about KFC. “The Colonel” created his original recipe so long ago, and supposedly the recipe includes 11 secret herbs and spices (paprika, garlic salt, onion salt, oregano, sage, rosemary, thyme, parsley, salt, black pepper and ginger, thankyouverymush!)

KFC Still advertises that it uses the same “original recipe” with those same 11 herbs and spices.. So why does it taste so different? is it just my tastebuds?

I still love their biscuits, so thank goodness when I’m craving fast food there are A&W + KFC restaurants around here where I can get a delicious rootbeer float and a couple biscuits. Best carbo-loading meal ever, btw.
But I digress.

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