A couple weeks back I stumbled upon a recipe for biscuits that are reminiscent of the ones you can find at a certain seafood restaurant here in the States. If you’re anything like me, you might go to this restaurant just because of these biscuits.
Well! If you’re interested in the recipes, you can find them on Allrecipes.com or you can just keep reading.
First you make the basic biscuit mix:
Easy Biscuit Mix:
Yield: 12 Cups
10 C all-purpose flour
1/2 C baking powder
1/4 C white sugar (I subbed honey)
2 tsp salt
2 C shortening (subbed olive oil)
1. Mix dry ingredients. Cut with shortening until coarse crumbs.
2. Done. Whatever is left over you can put in a container and stick it in the fridge the next time you get a wild hair to make biscuits.
Cheddar Bay Biscuits (or Cheesy Garlic Biscuits of Delicious Doom)
Yield: 20 small biscuits (or about 10 fist sized biscuits)
Oven: 375F
Bake time: 10-15 minutes
4 C Easy Biscuit Mix
3 oz. cheddar, shredded
1 & 1/3 C water
1/2 C butter, melted
1 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp onion powder
1/8 tsp dried parsley
1. Preheat oven to 375F.
2. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
3. Combine biscuit mix, cheese, and water. Mix until firm.
4. Either: make small rolls and put them on the parchment paper; or (if your dough turned out like mine, all sticky and fluffy) grab a small handful and drop it into a blob on the parchment paper/foil (I used foil since I didn’t have parchment paper. It worked fine.)
5. Bake until golden brown. That’ll be about 10-15 minutes. (Maybe twenty if you get distracted watching Arsenic and Old Lace and forget about them. Priscilla Lane is a cutie.)
6. While they’re baking combine the butter, garlic powder, salt, onion powder (I didn’t have any. It was fine.), and dried parsley. When you pull your little steaming mounds of deliciousness out of the oven, brush this buttery mixture of tastiness all over your biscuits. Wait about five minutes (or two) to remove them from the paper/foil and pop one in your mouth.
7. Bask in the glory of your biscuits.
I was not disappointed with them. The only things I might do differently:
1. I really like garlic. I’d chop some up and put it in the actual biscuits. I chopped some and put it in the butter mixture along with the powdered garlic/parsley, but still. More garlic. Keep those vamps at bay.
2. I didn’t measure my cheese. I should have put more in. I know that now. You can never have too much cheese.
3. Sift. I would like to have had a sifter for the biscuit mix. I ended up with small clumps of biscuit mix that didn’t get combined as well as I would have liked. Tragic. Not terribly noticeable though. But I see it!!
4. 1/2 C butter?? Really? No way. I used maaybe 3 Tbsp. No need to waste that butter. Paula Deen would be mad. I ended up with just enough butter to lightly dust these puppies with greasy, garlic-y goodness.
End result: Two Thumbs Up.
