![]() ![]() Use as a topping - use these drop biscuits as a topping for pot pies or for sweet fruit cobblers.After baking, brush with melted butter mixed with a little more garlic powder and parsley mixed in. Cheddar Bay Biscuits - add shredded cheddar cheese and ½ teaspoon of garlic powder to the dry ingredients.Spicy - add a diced jalapeño, fresh or pickled for a spicy kick.Like any base recipe, what you do with them from there is limited only to your imagination. Variationsĭrop Biscuits are just the beginning. The pieces aren't big enough to give you distinct flaky layers, but they will give you nice tall, fluffy biscuits that everyone will love. By adding cooled melted butter to super cold buttermilk, the butter coagulates into smaller, semi-solid pieces that will still evaporate into steam in the hot oven. This drop biscuit recipe skips the butter cutting step that can be difficult for some. Whether those issues are due to injury, disability, age, or any other reason, nothing should stop you from making and devouring delicious biscuits. Sometimes hand mobility issues can make cutting butter into dry ingredients, rolling out dough, even cutting out biscuits, difficult. When your biscuits encounter the heat of the oven, those pieces of butter release their water portion as steam and that steam causes the biscuits to separate into layers. Most biscuits, even my sweet biscuits, require that you cut cold butter into the dry ingredients either with your hands, some sort of pastry cutter, or a food processor, until the butter is in pieces about the size of peas. ![]() Olga Mae was even known to use lard or bacon fat in her biscuits from time to time and they were darn good! Melted Butter - These drop biscuits will work just as well with melted margarine or shortening.I just happen to think that a liquid with a bit of acidity, like buttermilk or yogurt, adds a distinctive flavor to biscuits that I otherwise miss. Nowadays, some people prefer to use milk alternatives. Buttermilk (one last thing) - Sometimes my Grandma Olga Mae just used milk. ![]() The amount of kefir remains the same at 1 cup. To do this, replace 1 cup of buttermilk with ¾ cup of yogurt and ¼ cup of milk or water. Because of the thickness of yogurt, you'll need to thin it to properly hydrate the flour. ![]()
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