Many, many thanks to all who offered suggestions for making a good southern biscuit!

I will be trying all suggestions and will post the results sometime in the future. Hopefully, my next batch will be scrumptiously flavored and look something like these…

But, lest you think that I am the ONLY person who has had difficulty with biscuits….a reader of From the Front Porch sent me this link. PLEASE, PLEASE click on it!!! It is funny and wow – I needed a laugh today like nobody’s business – got one here!! And also more recipes, hints and — gee whiz, if I can’t produce a decent biscuit after all of this help, well – take away my Emeril Apron!

*image courtesy of Google images and Martha White Flour.

I am a good cook. I can bake. I can follow a recipe. I cannot make a decent biscuit…a “from scratch” biscuit. I think I have in the past but for some reason, since being in the south, my biscuits are lousy.

The first batch which was a “Sour cream cornmeal biscuit” – I liked those!…but the cornmeal was gritty and a decided “Not again!” from Bill.

So – to the internet and a “southern buttermilk biscuit recipe” – Hockey Pucks!!

Back to the internet and a discussion on flour. I learned that “self-rising” flour includes baking powder and salt as opposed to all-purpose flour which does not. I never paid that much attention to which kind of flour I bought. Additionally, a big deal was made of “soft southern wheat flours” for biscuits…specifically a brand called “White Lily”.

Ha!

Armed with this knowledge and a bag of White Lily’s self-rising “soft southern wheat” AND the recipe from the back of the flour package – another batch to the oven.

How could these fail???

Flat…and not “light”… And one batch, I turned off the oven, but thought the biscuits needed just a bit more time – forgot them – they were burned hockey pucks!

Martha White Flour – another self-rising, soft southern wheat flour…another recipe off the back of the flour bag

Another batch of flat biscuits… HELP!!!