[at-l] Ice bound in Atlanta

[ellen at clinic.net (Bob C)]

Biscuits -- in the north anyway -- don't require yeast. But they do need some kind of leavening agent, i.e. baking powder. However, buttermilk and baking soda produces a leavening of sorts. If you want to experiement, and have baking soda, mix a quarter teaspoon with a cup of flour. Add a half teaspoon of salt, a teaspoon of sugar, and whatever buttermilk powder the package says will make a half cup of liquid.

Stir the mixture well with a wire whip, then using the wire whip or your fingers, chop in a rounded tablespoon of butter. If you do it right, the mixture will look a little like corn meal.

Stir in a half cup of water. It should be well mixed but not soggy wet. If the latter, sprinkle on some extra flour. It needs to be dry enough to be kneaded (squeezed between your hands) 15 or 20 times. Pat the concoction out until it's a half inch thick. Cut into biscuits with a biscuit cutter, glass or tin can, and bake at 450 degrees 10-12 minutes. I guarantee nothing. The same mixture makes trail biscuits, cooked in front of a fire, though I use baking powder, not buttermilk powder and baking soda, most of the time. 

Weary

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: W F Thorneloe <thornel@attglobal.net>
> To: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Date: Sat, Jan-29-2005 10:49 AM
> Subject: [at-l] Ice bound in Atlanta
> 
> While the folks in PARUCK are having fun (at least I trust they got 
> there), 
> I am huddled here, all alone in ATL with my boxer and my computer, 
> smelling 
> a beef stew slowly simmering. The great ice storm of 2005 has been a 
> bust 
> so far, with an icy coating on the ground and grass, but little problem 
> for 
> the power lines. No one in their right minds are out driving, and only 
> Southern kids consider this a sledding opportunity. Yes, there are kids 
> on 
> sleds riding on the ice sheet of our street.
> 
> While I'm thus occupied, I realized I forgot to go out and purchase 
> ready 
> made biscuits for my stew. Since the excellent cooks of the SORUCK are 
> here 
> today, would someone be willing to go off topic and share a biscuit 
> recipe. 
> I have buttermilk powder, flour, milk, butter, but don't think I have 
> any 
> baking soda. Do I even need yeast? Someone rescue me from stew with a 
> slice 
> of bread!
> 
> OrangeBug
> 
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