Not out of a can.
Not out of a box.
Just a few modest ingredients, mixed and mashed and melded together to create blissful, aromatic, crusty-on-the-outside, fluffy-on-the-inside rounds of simple decadence.
Plain, buttered, or drizzled with agave, these are so satisfying with a bowl of Veggie-Lentil Soup, especially for those of you suffering from the #polarvortex with subzero Arctic temps.
We don’t have gluten problems, so I used regular old white flour.
I don’t often bake items that are not 1000% nutritious, but we were totes craving the real thing.
It’s OK to indulge once in a great while, don’t you agree?
Here we start. You only need five ingredients; I’m sure everyone has milk, flour, shortening, salt, and baking powder in the pantry, right? #baking
Next, it’s time to cut the shortening into the dry ingredients. I use a fork. Simple!
Add milk, mix, and let it rest for a few minutes to develop the gluten.
Then, roll it out and use a biscuit cutter or a glass if you’re cool like me.
I always use parchment paper. Bake until they’re golden brown. You’ll be able to smell them as they rise and attain perfection. Don’t over bake or you’ll be able to use them as hockey pucks LOL.
Display on a pretty and fancy plate!. YUM!
Simple But Special #BiscuitRecipe
This recipe makes 8 to 12 biscuits
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 3/4 cup milk
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
- In a large mixing bowl sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in shortening with fork or pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Pour milk into flour mixture while stirring with a fork. Mix in milk until dough is soft, moist and pulls away from the side of the bowl.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and toss with flour until no longer sticky. Roll dough out into a 1/2 inch thick sheet and cut with a floured biscuit or cookie cutter. Press together unused dough and repeat rolling and cutting procedure.
- Place biscuits on ungreased baking sheets and bake in preheated oven until golden brown, about 10 minutes.#baking
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud 
What kind of shortening do you use (vegetable or animal)?
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As a VEGetarian, I use Crisco; gross, but makes the BEST biscuits in my opinion. It’s only a couple times a year that I have them this way, there’s a version with oil that’s also good and prob healthier but I wanted to make the kind my mom did.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Yum. Never understand why people buy those baking mixes. So simple to just throw the ingredients together and you don’t have the junk! Now I want biscuits. 🙂
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Make ’em!!! Of course you can add special things like cheese or chives but the simple goodness of those 5 ingredients were amazing and didn’t really need anything else to be satisfying! I also don’t know why anyone would opt for a zillion chemicals and preservatives when it’s really so easy.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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They just get it into their heads that baking is hard.
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You are so right. My neighbors always bug me to make apple pie, and I keep telling them I will teach them how to do it and it’s not hard at all, but then they buy the prepared piecrust and wonder why it doesn’t taste like mine. Geez. I even taught my hub to make a pie and brownies when he’s out to sea cos he likes to relieve his cook once in a while and it’s good morale for the crew to see the captain in the galley!
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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That’s cool he does that. Fun for the crew. 🙂
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🙂
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Everything looks delicious — now I’m hungry!
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See how easy it was? The prob is now hub wants them again and they really have no nutritional value, only emotional I guess! Fat and carbs LOL
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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What they lack in nutritional value, they make up for in the way of COMFORT food 🙂
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Very much so! Once in a while, indulging isn’t bad, right????
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Those look lovely and that picture of the soup made my mouth water.
It’s always confuses me to begin with me when people from the US say biscuit and it looks like that, to me a biscuit is what you call a cookie I think…. But those look a lot like what we British folks call scones and have with our cream teas.
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Yum, yum, yum!!
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Yum is right! How are you doing up there?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Oh my. These biscuits look beyond fab. Can we have when I come visit one day?!
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Oh yes, we will make them together and wash ’em down with a bottle of champs. Several bottles of champs and then we can move on to other adult beverages. Don’t forget hub is our DD. He’ll just sit out in the car until we need him LOL
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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OMG. I sure do love your hubs! And I’m down for the plan. It sounds like the perfect day/evening to me!
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It sure does! Should I start to chill the champs or are we talking not that soon?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Probably not that soon. But fingers crossed, sometime this year!
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YAY!!!
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Very nice! Do you mind if I reblog? Further more: Am I allowed to use the recipe (quick answer needed, due to high level of gourmanderie)
Thank you,
George.
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Yes, please do reblog and share! I think this is probably a very standard recipe that’s been around forever. It’s nothing special and that’s why it’s so awesome!
No need to embellish with truffle oil or saffron or scraped vanilla bean LOL. Just 5 simple ingredients and a bit of love. Thank you so much for sharing!!!!
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Thank you…I’m switching from Pillsbury….
I like to sprinkle sesame seeds, and powder…salt
I tried dill seeds, tarragon, thyme…they all add to the salty tooth!
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Yum, that sounds lovely. I love a sprinkle of freshly ground finishing salt. Esp for my hub who needs to be on a low sodium diet, those little salty tastes are very satisfying! I just made sushi and sprinkled the rice with sesame seeds; it adds a perfect balance. Have you tried chewing fennel seeds? i love them and they’re great for digestion.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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I use balance salt 1:1 Sodium to Potassium, and I make powder in my coffee grinder (from Ralphs, Stater Bro., etc.)…I would chek with a doctor (I don’t think a shink would qualify though, you may need to reach out on this one. 🙂
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Wow, I’ll have to ask my doc next time I see her.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Reblogged this on euzicasa and commented:
Now I can enjoy, more than just baking Pillsbury: I can make my own…
You don’t wanna miss visiting this site! (wHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR: GO, GO GO !
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I’m going to make these! They do not contain yeast – not that I have an allergy or am against eating yeast – it just hates me and refuses to properly rise! These really look good!
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Please let me know how they turn out for you and thank you for visiting my blog! Don’t give up on yeasties; they are temperamental, but well worth the effort!
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If I pulled the can out of the fridge, my kids would revolt. We only make them like this and I always double the batch for breakfast. Yum. Not healthy, but yum.
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Breakfast biscuits sound soooo good. You’ve trained those children right! I think I got a can once just so we could experiment. They were kind of gross, never did that again!
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Nice! You know, there is non-transfat shortening on the market.It’s expensive and, how can I word this?It makes whatever you are making with it a little ‘looser’ than regular shortening,(Crisco), does.Crisco, et al, ‘stiffens’ it a bit more.
But I have to laugh about Lentil Soup! Here it is again! I was about to put some up but I got on the phone with my niece,who was making some herself.The other line beeped in and it was #2 Son’s GF, asking about making lentil soup!!! Must be something lentilly in the air!
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I’ve tried the Crisco non-transfat option which comes in sticks and would have used it here, but I ran out and had the regular stuff. I use it so rarely that I don’t think it’s all that harmful to use a couple times a year. Lentils are a staple around here; high protein and cook quicker than beans. I use it for a lot of things, Veggie Burgers and my Lentil Cookies which I might make today. I’m glad everyone’s on the lentil bandwagon! Nice to see you visiting, hope things are starting out good for you in ’14.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Just Delish! I’m bookmarking this recipe and WTH does ‘totes’ mean?
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Thank you! and wait, I’m gasping for air. YOU don’t know TOTES? As in “totes adorbs” ??? As in “totally adorable”??? I don’t think I can collaborate with someone who doesn’t know the lingo of a 13yr-old LOL
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Have you ever had something that completely defeats you? Something that is your nemesis? Biscuits are mine! I have never been able to successfully make biscuits. No matter which recipe I try, no matter all the little hints & tricks other people try to help me with – I cannot make biscuits! I am so jealous. Maybe it’s the reason I love the cheesy biscuits at Red Lobster so much, even though I haven’t been there in years!
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When you come for your visit, we’ll make them together, OK?
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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That sounds like a plan!
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🙂
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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You mean biscuits don’t come out of can or box? Well, whoda thunk…………
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Uh, no. 🙂 And coming from Texas, I’m sure you’ve had the real thing!
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Not since my wise old grandmother died in 2003. It’s Pillsbury all the way now!…..lol
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I know they are good too, don’t tell anyone I said that!
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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