Mind Your Own Biscuits

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All Musgraves aside, one of my very favorite breakfast foods is the humble biscuit. The point here is for those with excellent biscuit experience to share the good stuff.

I’m pretty sure (beautifully confident?) this has been done before, several times, but I made a batch this morning, so what the hey. Plus, perhaps the younger mooks here haven’t considered this trail and our colleagues elsewhere in the world could present their equivalents and we might could even learn something.

Behold, the mighty, mighty biscuit!

Flour, baking powder, salt, butter, milk. I know there are better versions, this is the way I muster.

But since today is something of a chore day, I didn’t stop there. I have a big bad jones for the sausage biscuit; pork sausage, please, browned just right. Oh yes, I did.

But wait, there’s more! Coffee in the pour-over style, in a mug featuring photos of my 2 grandsons, given to me by my ever so thoughtful daughter-in-law.

While I was eating, our Australian cattle dog watched earnestly, pointing with her eyes at the sausage she would appreciate endlessly (or at least the nano-second it would take to devour any morsel received). Thin icicles of drool were hanging from both sides of her mouth.

This was good. Yes, I understand the health risks of sausage and butter, blah, blah, blah. I’m an almost 70-yr-old man and if I don’t die from a pole-axed heart enrobed with hardened arteries, what kind of happiness did I have in life?

Cheers, mates! How about your biscuits?

 

[Vibroluxer]

I like them with sausage gravy.

 

[backporchmusic]

What is a 'Musgraves'?

Great looking biscuits.

 

[Killing Floor]

Amen! I love biscuits.

It’s fun to see they are becoming a high frill food in a lot of cities.

 

[brookdalebill]

What is a 'Musgraves'?

Great looking biscuits.

Kacey Musgraves is a brilliant young singer/songwriter, IMO.
She wrote a song called Mind Your Own Bisquits (And Life Will Be Gravy).
Check her out.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

I don't think I've ever had a biscuit for breakfast.

Now pancakes -- the main reason I made pancakes for breakfast, oh, once a week, is that Harley is a Pancake Boy. I make a few small ones just for him! Mrs BDLH scolds me and says he's getting too fat, but he knows how to look at me with those big eyes...
And it's partly my own fault for giving him the nickname "Pancake Boy".

 

[drf64]

I think this is the point where @notmyusualuserid shows up and tells us we are all wrong about biscuits.

 

[Hamstein]

I like to do them if I'm making gumbo, with a big splodge of seasalty butter in.
For the uninitiated in the uk, they are nearly, definately in the area of, but not quite the same as a scone! Buttermilk biscuits my favorite but as buttermilk is not a common thing here, I can sort of fake it by souring the milk up a bit with lemon juice or yogourt!

 

[backporchmusic]

Kacey Musgraves is a brilliant young singer/songwriter, IMO.
She wrote a song called Mind Your Own Bisquits (And Life Will Be Gravy).
Check her out.

I do know who she is, but was wondering about this usage:

"All Musgraves aside, one of my very favorite breakfast foods is the humble biscuit."

 

[notmyusualuserid]

I think this is the point where @notmyusualuserid shows up and tells us we are all wrong about biscuits.

I would if you were talking about biscuits. All I see are scones

 

[teletimetx]

What is a 'Musgraves'?

Great looking biscuits.

It's a reference to a line in a Kacey Musgrave's song: "Biscuits", which was on her album "Pageant Material". (i.e., the Thread title, Mind Your Own Biscuits...)

...ah, and now I see my forum amigo @brookdalebill has already filled you in! Thanks, Bill!

 

[985plowboy]

I love biscuits.
Yesterday morning I spooned my biscuit dough into muffin pans.
Never tried or heard of that before. I was looking for the sheet pan and found the muffin and thought why not.
It actually worked really well.
No rolling no cutting no big mess on the counter top.
Muffin pans take longer to clean though so there is a downside.
And.
Anyone who thinks making biscuits is girly has never been to a proper hunting camp. The biscuit chef is held in the most high esteem.

 

[teletimetx]

@notmyusualuserid : I would if you were talking about biscuits. All I see are scones

Aye, there is some visual similarity, jimmy! But scones, in my pitiful experience are somewhat closer akin to a hockey puck in texture than a properly formulated biscuit. And while some reprobates add sugar to a biscuit recipe, ach, that's no the way! Scones, OTOH may freely use sugar and such.

It occurs to me that I've probably not had proper Scottish scones, only the pale imitation to be found in England, with (shudder) clotted cream! Civilization or barbarity?

 

[SparkleFart]

Not only do the biscuits themselves look delicious, but you've got skills with the photos man. Well done!

 

[oregomike]

All Musgraves aside, one of my very favorite breakfast foods is the humble biscuit. The point here is for those with excellent biscuit experience to share the good stuff.

I’m pretty sure (beautifully confident?) this has been done before, several times, but I made a batch this morning, so what the hey. Plus, perhaps the younger mooks here haven’t considered this trail and our colleagues elsewhere in the world could present their equivalents and we might could even learn something.

Behold, the mighty, mighty biscuit!
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Flour, baking powder, salt, butter, milk. I know there are better versions, this is the way I muster.

But since today is something of a chore day, I didn’t stop there. I have a big bad jones for the sausage biscuit; pork sausage, please, browned just right. Oh yes, I did.

But wait, there’s more! Coffee in the pour-over style, in a mug featuring photos of my 2 grandsons, given to me by my ever so thoughtful daughter-in-law.

While I was eating, our Australian cattle dog watched earnestly, pointing with her eyes at the sausage she would appreciate endlessly (or at least the nano-second it would take to devour any morsel received). Thin icicles of drool were hanging from both sides of her mouth.

This was good. Yes, I understand the health risks of sausage and butter, blah, blah, blah. I’m an almost 70-yr-old man and if I don’t die from a pole-axed heart enrobed with hardened arteries, what kind of happiness did I have in life?

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Cheers, mates! How about your biscuits?

My first attempt at biscuits AND gravy some years ago.
They were good, but since then, I've gotten some great tips and improved the texture and height. And yes, I love black pepper.

 

[notmyusualuserid]

@notmyusualuserid : I would if you were talking about biscuits. All I see are scones

Aye, there is some visual similarity, jimmy! But scones, in my pitiful experience are somewhat closer akin to a hockey puck in texture than a properly formulated biscuit. And while some reprobates add sugar to a biscuit recipe, ach, that's no the way! Scones, OTOH may freely use sugar and such.

It occurs to me that I've probably not had proper Scottish scones, only the pale imitation to be found in England, with (shudder) clotted cream! Civilization or barbarity?

Bran scone.

 

[JL_LI]

Biscuits, yum. I shouldn’t eat them, refined carbs dispersed in fats, but yum. I haven’t flown in a while, but my favorite biscuits were the breakfast biscuits served in first class on American Airlines. On morning flights, they’d bring them until you told them to stop. Evening flights they poured wine that way assuming you’d be met by a driver.

 

[archetype]

My first attempt at biscuits AND gravy some years ago.
They were good, but since then, I've gotten some great tips and improved the texture and height. And yes, I love black pepper.

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You might like Cacio E Pepe. It's an Italian dish of long pasta of any type in a sauce of Pecorino and pasta water with black and sometimes other pepper in it. Done right it's got a balanced peppery taste.

Just think of spaghettii, spaghettini, bucatini and other such pasta as small diameter, linear biscuits.

 

[getbent]

we had biscuit and gravy for breakfast yesterday. There are leftovers, I'm having them for supper tonight with some fresh gravy.

I love biscuit. (my grandma always used the word in the singular, I don't know why, but I dug it, so I do it too.)

those are some beauties OP.

 

[oregomike]

You might like Cacio E Pepe. It's an Italian dish of long pasta of any type in a cream sauce with black and sometimes other pepper in it. Done right it's got a balanced peppery taste.

Just think of spagettii, spagettini, bucatini and other such pasta as small diameter, linear biscuits.

Thanks, for the reminder. I remember seeing something like this cross one of myn instagram feeds, and thought "omg, this is right up my alley. Need to remember to make this soon. I love Bucatini. It's replaced spaghetti for me, mostly.