An Old Man Learns to Make Biscuits

It always seemed totally mysterious to me.

An Old Man Learns to Make Biscuits

 

By Elton Camp

 

I’ve eaten homemade biscuits all my life

First made by my mother & then my wife

 

It always seemed way to complex to me

I decided that an easier way there must be

 

Most recipes call for salt and saturated fat

But I didn’t want to make biscuits like that

 

The ones that are made with whole wheat

To my way of thinking are very hard to beat

 

When I was a kid, Mom made ‘em with lard

But, for health, that should be entirely barred

 

So I decided to see how hard it would be

To mix up some that are fat & sodium free

 

The first few batches turned out pretty bad

With adjustments, now as good as I’ve had

 

Down below for any who may want to see

Is my version of an easy biscuit recipe

 

 

Easy Whole Wheat Biscuits

 

Preheat oven to 475 degrees.

 

The dry ingredients:

 

2 cups whole wheat flour

1 teaspoon Rumford baking powder (level, not heaping)

Mrs. Dash Table Blend, seed, minor other ingredients (optional)

1 tablespoon of sugar  (okay to leave out)

 

 

 

The liquid ingredients:

 

1/3 C extra-virgin olive oil
2/3 C buttermilk (have to add more milk at end when mixing, but if so use sweet milk, not more buttermilk.)

 

Mix all of the dry ingredients in a large bowl.

 

Put the oil in a small bowl, add the milk, but do NOT mix together.

 

Gradually move liquid into dry ingredients and stir until well blended.  The dough will get quite thick so this is where you may need some sweetmilk.

 

Take big spoonfuls of dough and form into biscuits with hands. 

 

Put on baking pan lightly sprayed with Pam.

 

Bake for 18 minutes, or until very lightly browned.

 

Comments:  Easy to make, wholesome ingredients, no salt, no saturated fat.

None of that kneading, rolling out, and other stuff that I don’t know how to do.  It will also work with white flour, but you sacrifice health benefits.  Regular milk can be used instead of buttermilk.  Rumford baking powder is the only such product that I know which doesn’t contain aluminum.  Why would anyone deliberately eat aluminum!  It is available is many supermarkets and at health food stores.  Leftover biscuits warm nicely in the microwave.  If you try it and don’t like them, just crumble them up and feed them to the birds or you can send them to me and I’ll eat them. 

 

Reviews

[Marie]

This sounds really good. I used to make biscuits from scratch myself. Now I just buy a package of Jiffy Mix...