Biscuits (part 2)

Okay, so after you get the dough worked up good... Like the end of the last post stated, you need to wash your hands, then sprinkle a little flour on to the dough ball and a little onto your hands. Now put your hand under the dough ball a little and give it a little flop.. rotate bowl a little, do this over and over until you have the dough coated well with flour and it has a good consistancy to it. Like the ball I got in the pic below.



Now pinch ya off a little ball of the dough and roll it up like a golf ball and then place in pan, and take your first three fingers and push it down a little.. If you look close at my pic you can see I pushed them down a little. Now take your finger and put a small well in each biscuit, and place small dollop of butter in each well.

Place in oven and bake for 10-15 minutes at about 425-450 based on how your oven bakes... take out when toothpick comes out clean. Now brush a little melted butter on top, put stove on broil and stick back in to get the tops nice and brown. Voila you just made biscuits.

Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits(part 1)

I am going to have to do two posts for this, because it won't allow me to upload all the pics needed to one post. so heres the first part.

Okay so I do not normally use a recipe for these, they are just kinda hit and miss, once you get it down to pat, you wont need a recipe, but to start it out for my friend that requested the recipe here ya go...


Okay First off get a cake pan a grease it with shortening.

I take about 5 cups of flour and put it in a big bowl... now hollow out the center of it, like your making a well in it... leave a little flour on the bottom of the bowl, but make a hole in the center of your flour.

Now take about one good size serving spoon and scoop ya up some shortening and put in the hole in the flour.









Now your going to slowly start adding in a little bit of buttermilk into the same hole as the shortening. just a little at first (also if you dont have butter milk, no big deal, use regular milk, cream, or just water ) you want to work your milk in with your shortening for a little while, then slowly start pulling in some flour from the sides and work it in with the milk/shortening mixture. Do not get it to stiff, you want it to stay sticky. Keep pulling flour in and working it, and then adding ya a little more water or milk until you get a good size ball of dough.









Okay have to go to second post for the rest of it... sorry guys

Chocolate Gravy (2) Never made this one

2 cups sugar
4 tbs cocoa
1 pinch salt
1 2/3 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbs butter

In a skillet put sugar, cocoa, flour and salt. Add to that milk, vanilla and butter. Cook and stir until boils. Let cook a little to allow to thicken more. Serve over biscuits. (also if either one dont get to the thickness you want, mix up some corn startch and water... bought 1 tbs of each, and pour in it.. make sure the gravy is boiling when ya do this though, so it will thicken... otherwise it just clumps up). Hope you enjoy this girl!!

Chocolate Gravy (for my Dear Friend Robin)

Ingredients
3 tsp cocoa
2 tsp flour
2 cups milk
2 tbs butter
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup sugar

Mix Cocoa, Sugar, Flour together, then add milk, mix until smooth. Heat and stir until thick. Take off heat, add butter and vanilla.


Note: My sis substitutes 1/2 cup sugar for 1/2 cup splenda and then does the other 1/2 cup with the sugar, so that it takes away some of the sugar content. This is the recipe we use here, but I have another one also I am going to post for you, but I have never made the other one.