{"id":229,"date":"2008-03-25T16:08:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T22:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:18:18","slug":"southern-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/03\/southern-biscuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

So – to the internet and a “southern buttermilk biscuit recipe” – Hockey Pucks!!<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

Ha!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"White<\/p>\n

How could these fail???<\/p>\n

\"White<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

\"Martha<\/p>\n

Martha White Flour – another self-rising, soft southern wheat flour…another recipe off the back of the flour bag<\/p>\n

\"Martha<\/p>\n

Another batch of flat biscuits… HELP!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22486,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}