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Overview
In Southern Biscuits, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart cover every biscuit imaginable, from simple, hassle-free biscuits to embellished biscuits laced with silky goat butter, crunchy pecans, or tangy pimento cheese. The traditional biscuits in this book encompass a number of types, from beaten biscuits of the Old South and England, to Angel Biscuits—a yeast biscuit sturdy enough to split and fill but light enough to melt in your mouth.
Other recipes explore dishes that incorporate biscuits, such as Overnight Biscuit Cheese Casserole, or are closely related foods, such as Buttermilk Coffee Cake, or Chicken and Vegetables with Dumplings. Filled with beautiful photography, including dozens of how-to photos showing how to mix, stir, fold, roll, and knead, Southern Biscuits is the definitive biscuit baking book.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781423621775 |
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Publisher: | Smith, Gibbs Publisher |
Publication date: | 05/01/2011 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 216 |
Sales rank: | 199,328 |
File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Cynthia Stevens Graubart is an author and former television producer who began her culinary television production career with New Southern Cooking with Nathalie Dupree in 1985. She is the author of The One-Armed Cook, called the culinary version of What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Cynthia and her husband, Cliff, live in Atlanta, Georgia.
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WHAT I S A BISCUIT?
A biscuit was originally made out of flour and water, the basis of hardtack carried by early travelers. Ultimately, a little lard was added, the dough was beaten hours before shaping and baking, the final product holding a little slivered country ham, becoming a gourmet’s delight called a Beaten Biscuit. (We now make it with a food processor in five minutes.)
Once baking powder was developed in the 1800sreplacing the potash that had been used as a leaveningit was added to the same flour and water and, mixed together and shaped into a round, it became a biscuit. (These are still eaten today as Dorm Biscuits.) Any other addition is an extension of the cook’s imagination, whether whole milk, buttermilk, sour cream, yogurt, whipping cream, shortening, lard, or butter are used. Each adds a different capacity for leavening or flavoring.
The lightest biscuits are made out of delicate white winter-wheat flour, also called “soft wheat” due to its low gluten content. With the addition of a fat and a liquid, usually milk or buttermilk, they are a close cousin to scones, containing sugar and possibly an egg, which the English fill with clotted cream and raspberries and serve for tea, not for breakfast or another meal. The English biscuit, which is a cookie, bears no relation to a scone.
The French have a cake-type called “biscuit,” which neither cookie, bread, nor scone. There was no agreement over the years about how to spell, define, or pronounce the name of our bread. It just was.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 8
Foreword by Terry Kay 10
Introduction 12
Biscuit Basics 16
Easy Biscuits
Julia Regner’s Sturdy Dorm Biscuits 32
Allison’s Easy Sour Cream Biscuits 34
Julia’s Double Ginger Biscuits 36
Jennet Alterman’s Mother’s Shot Glass Biscuits 38
Rachel’s Very Beginner’s Cream Biscuits 40
Busty Yogurt Biscuits 42
Yogurt and Heavy Cream Biscuits 44
Cynthia’s Real Life Pantry Biscuits 46
Homemade Refrigerator Biscuit Mix 48
Traditional Biscuits
Baking Powder Biscuits 52
Basic Southern Biscuit 54
Novice Tea Towel Kneaded Smooth-topped
Sweet-Milk Biscuits 56
Hand-Rolled Extra-Light Biscuits 58
Kate’s Unforgettable Wooden Bowl Biscuits 60
Mishap Skillet Biscuits 62
Shirley Corriher’s Country Buttermilk Biscuits 63
Biscuits Supreme 64
“Bomber” Biscuits 66
Bumpy-Topped Mock Clabber Biscuits 68
James Villas’ Maw-Maw’s Biscuits 70
Double Fluffy Buttermilk Biscuits 72
Food Processor Biscuits 74
Fast Food Biscuits 76
Big Nasty Biscuits 78
The Flying Biscuit 80
Beaten Biscuits 82
Make Ahead Shenandoah Valley Biscuits 84
Mrs. Dull’s “Diet” Soda Biscuits 86
Gullah Biscuits 88
Olive Oil Biscuit 90
Buttermilk-Margarine Biscuits 92
Angel Biscuits 94
Stir ’n Roll Biscuits 96
Leftover Biscuits 97
Embellished Biscuits
Black Pepper Biscuits 100
Goat Butter Biscuits 102
Pimento Cheese Biscuits 104
Benne Seed Biscuits 106
Cracklin’ Cat’s Head Biscuits 108
Parsley Biscuits with Ham and Honey Mustard 110
Buttermilk Raisin Cinnamon Pecan Biscuits 112
Buttery Blueberry Ginger Biscuits 114
Cranberry-Orange Biscuits 116
Sweet Potato or Pumpkin Biscuits 118
On-the-Go A.M. Breakfast Sandwich 121
Coca-Cola Biscuits 122
Party Biscuits
Half Dollar Ham Biscuits 126
Petite Carriage House Biscuits 128
Senator Hollings’ Flaky Appetizer Cream Cheese Biscuits 130
Flaky Pecan Party Biscuits 132
Biscuit Relatives
Butter Dips 136
Cheese Straws or Wafers 137
Chocolate Soldiers 138
Blue Cornmeal Biscuits 140
Cheddar-Chipotle Cornmeal Biscuits 142
Paul Prudhomme’s Southern Biscuit Muffins 144
Buttermilk Rusks 145
Mrs. Dull’s 5 O’Clock Tea Porter Puffs 146
Cheese Sausage Pinwheels 147
Peach Coffee Cake 149
Pancakes 150
Waffles 151
Chicken or Turkey Biscuit Pot Pie 152
Fluffy Food Processor Buttermilk Biscuits for Potpie 155
Rainy-day Thyme Dumplings and Beef Stew 156
Chicken and Dumplings 159
Chicken and Vegetables with Dumplings 160
Tomorrow’s Biscuits
Breaded Tomatoes 164
Tomato Biscuit Soup 165
Biscuit Panzanella Salad 166
Sausage, Fennel, and Apple or Pear Dressing or Stuffing 168
Overnight Biscuit Cheese Casserole 169 Overnight Biscuit Sausage and Apple
Casserole 170
Gilding the Lily
Citrus Butter 174
Onion-Parmesan Butter 174
Norman’s Compound Butter with Lime and Cilantro 175
Nut Butter 175
Orange-Honey Butter 176
Honey Mustard Sauce 176
Orange Glaze 177
Fig Jam Filling 177
Easy Refrigerator Strawberry Jam 178
Lemon Curd (Lemon Cheese) 179
Hot Pepper Jelly 180
Sausage-Bacon Gravy 182
Dumpling Gravy 183
Chocolate Gravy 184
Butterscotch Sauce 184
Caramel Sauce 185
Desserts
White Lily Sweet Cake Biscuits 188
Hayley Daen’s Cranberry Buttermilk Scones 191
Hayley Daen’s Brown Sugar Shortcakes 194
Caramel Bread Sticks 196
Peach Pinwheels 198
Fig Roll Loaf 200
Biscuit Fried Pies 202
Lazy Girl Peach Cobbler 204
Peach Puzzle 205
Overnight Bananas Foster Biscuit Casserole 206
Biscuit Trifle 207
Berry-Biscuit Summer Pudding 208
Biscuit Brown Betty 210
Ginger Banana Biscuit Bread Pudding 211
Cinnamon-Raisin Biscuit Bread Pudding 212
Index 214