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These drop biscuits with Crisco are great for people with small kitchens. So simple, but oh so good!
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup shortening (such as Crisco®)
- 1 cup milk
Directions
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.
Step 2
Mix together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Cut in shortening until mixture has only pea-sized lumps. Add milk; mix until dry mixture is absorbed. Drop dough by heaping spoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheet.
Step 3
Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes
Nutrition Facts (per serving)
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Servings Per Recipe 12 | |
| Calories 124 | |
| % Daily Value * | |
| Total Fat5g | 6% |
| Saturated Fat1g | 7% |
| Cholesterol2mg | 1% |
| Sodium190mg | 8% |
| Total Carbohydrate17g | 6% |
| Dietary Fiber1g | 2% |
| Total Sugars1g | |
| Protein3g | |
| Calcium74mg | 6% |
| Iron1mg | 6% |
| Potassium53mg | 1% |
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
**Nutrient information is not available for all ingredients. Amount is based on available nutrient data.
(-) Information is not currently available for this nutrient.If you are following a medically restrictive diet, please consult your doctor or registered dietitian before preparing this recipe for personal consumption.
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These are easy. My Girl Scout troop used these on a camping trip, but baked them “on a stick.” They taste great and are super easy!
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Yes, they were very quick and easy to make(my three year old helped me make them). BUT, my husband hated the taste! I’ll try it again and instead I’ll make a bread instead of individual biscuits.
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They are delicious…just like grandma used to make !
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I think this is a great recipe. It doesnt have a huge taste, it has a simple light, taste. very good. good to add jelly or butter. worth a try, easy ingrediants that everyone has.
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Very good recipe, easy and quick. Tastes great! Easy to make a lot or just a little.
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The best bisquits I’ve made in a long long time!!
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The taste is not all that great, I had a little too much baking powder in it and that ruined everything…But it is certainly easy and fast.
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Good flavor but kinda dry. Had a nice appearance and smelled good, the kids did not care for them because they were so dry.
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SO-SO, good in a pinch because they’re easy.
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My husband is the biggest kid/picky eater out there. The first time I made these, they were a bit dry. I always used half a recipie, cuz it’s just the two of us until our daughter gets older. Well, I added 1 tsp of vanilla extract. It was just the kick it needed!
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I used butter-flavor crisco and buttermilk instead of milk. These were surprisingly tender but a little bland. I won’t make them again.
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i dont know what went wrong but mine taste like pretzels! i have yet to make edible biscuits from any recipe that i’ve tried so dont let this discourage anyone from giving it a try. they are simple and quick.
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Recipe is great, however I did add some cinnimon and a little bit of sugar just to give it some added taste, as I used this for a breakfast biscuit one day. Very quick and easy
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This was by far, the absolute best biscuit that I have ever had. It was light and airy. It has a wonderful delicate flavor and my half loved them as well. This is a keeper. Oh, and did I mention it was super easy?
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These biscuits were very simple and easy to make and tasted great. I liked the “drop” shape although we did form some of them so they did not look too wild. Flaky and good with butter.
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Great biscuits that are easy to make. I’m glad to find a good biscuit recipe that does not call for buttermilk–which I never have. Also, my son can’t tolerate milk so I used soy milk and they turned out great. Thanks for this recipe!
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MMMMmmm. Biscuits just like I had as a kid. I followed the recipe exactly (except I used slightly less than 1 tablespoon of baking powder). I was very happy with how they turned out. For people who like moist biscuits, you might need to add slightly more shortening and milk because this recipe makes traditional-style baking powder biscuits which are, by nature, fairly airy and dry. I have also added 1 tablespoon of italian herbs (anything will do, basil, oregano, thyme) and mixed it in with the flour before adding the shortening. It gave these biscuits a lovely herbed taste! Will make these simple and delicious biscuits again and again. (My husband raved about them.)
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The recipe as written requires too much baking powder. You can taste the baking powder in the final product, it is repulsive. Also these biscuits are really dry. They might be useful to sop up something like stew, but definitely are not the biscuits you want to cook for breakfast. I give this recipe a two because it provides a basic framework for biscuits with few ingredients, and which you can adjust by preferences.
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These were good. I liked these because they were so easy to make. I will make these again! My husband really liked him and asked me why I have never made these for him before! I halved this recipe and it still was good. I added a bit of sugar and put less baking powder because I was worried about having the biscuits taste like baking powder! Overall a great recipe! Thank you!
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They were light and flaky, and good with gravy, but did not have much taste on their own.
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Really simple and Really good. Best if served right out of the oven with butter.
Just don’t make them with baking soda, like I did once when I was rushed
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These biscuits were very good, had a nice texture. They went well with potato soup. Very easy to make.
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I really liked this recipe, and my hard to please husband just raved about these. All these years, I’ve been making Bisquik biscuits. These are much better. I added about 1/8 tsp. garlic powder, and a handful of mozzerella cheese. They came out moist and delicious. I am making them again today!
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I was eager to try this recipe as I’ve just moved to New Zealand from Georgia and was missing the taste of country biscuits! The recipe was simple and inexpensive, and I liked that as well. My only complaint is that the biscuits were slightly greasy, but only slightly. My guests didn’t know the difference, though, and gobbled them up immediately! I served them with fried chicken and garlic mashed potatoes. They tasted wonderful, just like back home. I’ll definitely make them again.
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pleased to find this recipe very similiar to what my dad used to bake when I was a kid- found it easy and quick and good
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Interesting texture, more like a bread than a traditional biscuit. I only gave it a 3 because they were pretty bland. I like my biscuits to be a bit saltier than what they turned out. If I make them again I will definetly increase the salt or add some garlic salt to liven them up.
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I have been using this recipe for every type of dough imaginable, and it’s wonderful!
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These came out great! Nice and flaky. I halved the recipe {6 servings), as only a few of us were home. I used a little less baking powder than called for and added a little garlic powder ( a little less than a half teaspoon), but I think they would also be good without. Quick and easy!
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This was fast, easy, and excellent! I added some cheese and garlic powder, and I have lots of other things I’m going to try in them too. Next time I would use the spoon to gently give them a more biscuity shape, but no biggie.
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Excellent! That is all I can say. I dcided to try these out one day a few months ago, over my Christmas break from school. I made them,quick and easy, added a little bit of cheese, everyone enjoyed them. When I went back to school my mom said she wished I was home to make her some more. For mother’s day she didn’t want a gift, all she wanted was for me to make her some of these wonderful biscuits. Thanks Anne!
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These were the easiest, best biscuits I have ever made. I needed a quick bread to go with my dinner, so I added a little garlic powder and cheese like a previous reviewer suggested and my husband LOVED them. Sprayed a little butter on top and they resembled the biscuits you get at Red Lobster!!! Yummmyyy…. thanks Anne
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Super easy to make, but my family didn’t care for them. Hubby thought they tasted too floury. I didn’t like the shortening taste.
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very good and easy to make
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I like the way this recipe turned out. My son told me it almost taste like “Pop Eyes” biscuits which is his favorite.
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Good tast, easy to make… airy and dry is the word with these, I found them moist in the middle thoug…. Unlike some reviewers, I did not find the amount of baking powder too intense… I used butter flavored shortening, and simply broke pices off tyhe dough ball, rathjer than spooning them, but the shape was good… lovely color
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Thank you Anne for your easy Biscuit recipe. I had been looking for something that was fast easy to make and the taste was great! My family enjoyed the biscuit very much that I had to double the recipe. I added garlic and cheese to your recipe and the taste was great. Thank you again
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I made with about 1 cup of cheddar cheese and a couple of teaspoons of the minced garlic that you buy in a jar. They were fabulous!! I can’t wait to make them again tonight! My husband said that they were better than the restaurant ones!!
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I couldn’t think of a faster, easier way to make light and fluffy biscuits. I even substitited margarine for shortening and they were still perfect!
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I used margerine instead of shortening. They turned out quite good.
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These biscuits were really good. Actually, I didn’t make them as biscuits. I made a recipe I learned from my Home Ec. class called Bubblecake and it called for refridgerator biscuits. But I decided to use homemade. Anyways, the Bubblecake came out really bad. But the biscuit part was delicious and I will definitely use this recipe to make actual biscuits. I am going to try adding an 1/8 tsp. of garlic powder and a handful of cheddar cheese- it will be so good! Anyways, I would definitely recommend these- they have Popeye’s biscuit texture. Very delicious with butter.
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This recipe is so easy and so good! I used butter flavor shortening and just broke off pieces instead of spooning. They were light and fluffy and really moist in the middle. Very good.
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I have to give these biscuits a three, b/c they really can’t stand alone without eating something with it. They are perfect for a meal where you want to soak up gravy or stew and would be good with soup. By themselves they are too dry and bland. However, they are easy and were perfect for my gravy-laden meal! Thanks.
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Super easy and tastes great! I made these last week when I needed a quick biscuit recipe to go with scrambled eggs, sausage and gravy. These were perfect! I made them again this morning and we topped them with jam. My husband says he’s going to have chili over them for lunch today. This recipe is a keeper for us. Thank you!
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These were great and easy to make!
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Excellent biscuits. I have been making them with a vegetarian gravy sauce that I made up (yes I know I need to send it to All Recipes).
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I made 9 large biscuits instead of 12… Excellent texture, tender and not dry at all. Exactly what I was looking for 🙂
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This recipe was very easy to follow and best of all it produced the most delicious biscuits. They were so tasty!!!
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i really try this again and like it. very easy. but butter and jam on it love it.thanks so easy.
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very easy to make, and my husband loved them
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These are very easy to make and taste great too. My husband and I loved them.
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These were bland. Won’t be making them again.
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I had to add a little more flour. Add a little bit of shredded cheddar cheese and a sprinkling of thyme to make it tastier.
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These are good basic biscuits. Add some garlic salt and chedder and they are very flavorful, leave them the way they are, slather with butter and jam and you have a great breakfast. Plus, everything is on hand so you don’t need to plan ahead for these. Love it!
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I used margarine instead of shortening and I used buttermilk instead of milk–they turned out GREAT! So light and flaky and soft–great flavor. And they are so, so easy.
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They were very easy to make but lacked flavor and taste. In addition, they were not too good when re-heated.
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I just made these and I was wondering about the comments about them being so bland; aren’t biscuits normally a little bland? No, these are REALLY bland. I love the idea that this recipe doesn’t have a ton of ingredients and is quick to make but it really needs something else to give it flavor. Even using butter instead of shortening didn’t help.
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Not perfect – I’ll try another recipe next time (could’ve been the oven though!)
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These make a great quick biscuit base – but will be bland if left alone. I followed the advice of others and added cheddar and some thyme. Next time I’ll add a spoon of sugar, too.
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I made these with cheddar cheese and a little garlic and thyme. They did not get golden brown but they were very good.
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Great recipe for home made biscuits. Especially good if you have some gravy to put on top. Otherwise, find a way to kick these up a notch. I put in cheddar cheese, garlic powder and italian seasoning and the biscuits tasted like the ones at Red Lobster. (So good)
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I finally made the perfect biscuits with this recipe!I have tried so many variations of recipes and this is the only one that turned out. The only thing I would change is I recommend rolling out the dough and cutting it instead of using the spoonfuls.
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Very good & quick! 25 minutes start to finish! Great with soup.
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I make these at least 1x a month. They are great for breakfast, lunch or dinner. I no longer buy frozen biscuits. What makes these taste even better is adding softened butter to the mixture before baking.
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Easy to make, but not much in taste. I added shredded cheese, and topped them with garlic and butter, and still they were dry and bland. Horrible reheated!
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really good, taste almost like grandma’s
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These are good basic biscuits. Add some garlic salt and chedder and they are very flavorful, leave them the way they are, slather with butter and jam and you have a great breakfast. Plus, everything is on hand so you don’t need to plan ahead for these.
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These are quick & easy, just like how my mom makes them. We top them with butter & mashed, sweetened strawberries.
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Excellent and EASY! Very easy to spice up with garlic and cheese.
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This is the same recipe I use for making gravy and biscuits. The only thing I do differently is use the butter flavored crisco. Very yummy!
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I opted out of using shortening and instead went with the suggestion of using butter that was frozen and grated. The middle of the biscuits were tender. And the flavor was nice and light. These biscuits were not overly salty or strange tasting as the canned biscuits can be.
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Fantastic! I used salted butter to add extra flavour, grated the butter right into the flour, replaced part of the milk with plain 2% yogurt (adding liquid until the dough was quite wet), and scooped them onto the cookie sheet with a medium ice cream scoop. This yielded 16 fluffy and tasty biscuits with a perfect crunchy exteriour. My southern husband said they were perfect!
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Definately 5 stars for ease of preparation! Mine came out rather flat but I may need fresh baking powder. Overall, tasty and fast…will use again.
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These were extremely easy to make but they were also extremely dry and bland. I dipped them in syrup and that made them a lot better.
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These were delicious! I added cheese for more flavour! They were 5 stars without the cheese though!
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These are great Biscuits- especially when slathered with jelly or honey. I made a double batch so we could have biscuits for breakfast and my kids ate all the extras as a bedtime snack. Great easy recipe. Oh, i did roll them out to ensure they would be a bit more stable for little hands to hold.
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We call these “pay day” biscuits at our house because as it gets closer to pay day (read: grocery shopping) we run out of other breads, but we alwayd have these ingredients on hand. I add grated cheddar cheese to min before adding the milk for a little more flavor.
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I thought they were only ok. i used half butter (salted), half shortening. The flavor was ok. It was a very wet dough as far as biscuit dough goes. As a result it did not produce a flaky biscuit and the appearance was not very attractive, even for a drop biscuit. Ok though for so few ingredients.
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Great biscuits and very easy to make.
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I have searched high and low for a Baking Powder Biscuit recipe for two years. I remember my mom making them when I was a kid. This one is great!! This is so much easier than the rolled biscuits. A really cool variation is to add 1 tsp of orange flavoring with milk and egg then to “dry” ingredients to this and enjoy with coffee or tea and some friends.
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Very easy and very tasty. My husband asks for these every week! I put them in a square baking dish and they rise beautifully.
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Good dough, plain in flavor. I was looking for a lighter fluffy biscuit type dumpling and used this recipe. Dropped the dough into my leftover chicken soup and boiled for about twenty minutes covered (I like BIG dumplings) and about another ten uncovered. Worked great!
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This is a great recipe, but i admit it do some changes to get more flavour!
by changing the shortening to butter, you get a much richer taste.
Also, I find it only takes about 10min prep time, not 30 as mentioned in the recipe.
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Why have I been making Bisquick biscuits all this time when these are just as easy and taste so much better?? I use butter rather than shortening, and sometimes add 1T of sugar to sweeten them up a bit. Since I live alone, I usually make 1/4 recipe to yield two biscuits; I like them best fresh from the oven so I’d rather make them this way than reheat leftovers later.
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my mom use to make this recipe on sunday mornings. i did not change a thing.
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I loved this easy recipe, but I only made it for 6 biscuits since it’s just hubby and I. I also used cold butter instead of shortening, since I can’t get shotening here in Holland. I patted the dough out and made cut biscuits instead of drop style. I found them flaky and tasty.
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Good recipe, I added a little sugar, but the biscuits came out excellent!
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This is an amazing recipe! They are super easy to make and turn out delicious. I substitute margarine for half the shortening and add a bit of sugar, no more than 1/4 cup. Hubby loves them especially when I pair them with something like peachy chicken to sop up the juice. We love them plain too.
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These were great. I changed the recipe by adding buttermilk instead of regular milk. I also used self rising flour instead of baking powder. I think the salt wasn’t necessary after adding the buttermilk so next time it won’t be there! Very good recipe! Now I don’t have to buy the packaged stuff anymore for buttermilk biscuits. One suggestion to other cooks… don’t over work the dough. I think I did because they weren’t as light and fluffy as I was expecting. I think I over mixed. My husband didn’t seem to mind, he ate all but the two I had!
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These were easy to make. Actually, I misread the recipe and added 1/2 C shortening instead of 1/4. They came out soft and just what I was expecting for a drop biscuit. I also added some garlic powder, as I wanted a more savory biscuit. I added 1 tsp, but I think I should’ve stuck to 1/2 tsp! It was still good, though, and I would make these again.
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These are so quick and tasty! They are perfect as a side for chili or any family classic! We even eat them for snacks with butter or jam.
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Excellent base recioe. I substituted buttermilk for the milk. I also had the convenience of having self rising flour and used it instead of all the little extras added to the flour.
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i added 1 tbs of sugar and 1 of salt. I also used whole milk and magarine. I ‘ve made it twice in 2 weeks !!
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I hate shortening. I always use butter when a recipe calls for shortening because it bakes almost identically, and the flavour is so much richer. I have used this recipe dozens of times. It is very versatile. Simply add some cheddar for a cheese drop biscuit. You can actually roll this dough out if you roll it between 2 sheets of wax paper sprayed with cooking spray. Spread melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon on the rolled out dough, roll it cup, cut and bake for quick, flaky cinnamon buns. Place thinly rolled dough on a cornmeal dusted baking sheet and top with pizza sauce, mozza and your favourite pizza topping for a quick, and easy pizza. It’s definitely less co-operative than working with a yeast risen dough, but if you’re in a pinch and creative with your modifications it’s a whole lot faster and very tasty. UPDATE: New variation – Roll flat, spread with pesto sauce and top with about 1/4 cup of mozzarella and a sprinke of parmesan. Bake, slice into fingers and serve with marinara as a dip. Lovely!
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I used a little less milk- less than 3/4 c to make roll and cut biscuits. I used these to make mini pot pies. I diced up some leftover chicken, added some gravy, peas and carrots, put it in a ramekin and topped it with an uncooked biscuit. 450 degrees for 10 minutes. These biscuits were just what I was looking for, thanks!
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Excellent Recipe- My new go to recipe for quick baking powder biscuits. I only changed one thing- i used butter since i stay away from shortening. I turned down the oven temp by 25 degrees and i made 6 large biscuits instead of 12 little ones. Thanks for the great recipe.
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This is my go-to biscuit recipe. I always have the simple ingredients on hand and I jazz it up however I need to. I’ve done a garlic-cheddar modification that is dangerously good. And I use this recipe, with about a tablespoon of dried sage added, to top chicken pot pie (just drop the heaping spoonfuls on top of the filling and bake as the pot pie recipe directs).
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Add some finely shredded cheese and garlic powder and you have biscuit very close to Red Lobster’s.
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Wonderful! I used Margarine instead of shortening. I also threw in a handful of shredded cheese. Sooo good. I pushed them into a muffin pan and it made 11 cute little biscuits. It was nice and easy. My beau will be waking up to the scent of them!
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Good biscuit recipe. One Sunday a month, I have the opportunity to bake for our Church family. For those who are cannot have sugar in their diet, I make these biscuits and add a cup of shredded cheddar cheese (in addition, sometimes I add 6 pieces of crispy, crumpled-up turkey bacon) to the dough. People seem to enjoy them.
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this is a great base for cheddar cheese biscuits.
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