Mama Mangia
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COWBOY BISCUITS
2 Cups Flour
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
1 Tablespoon Sugar
2 Tablespoons Crisco, Lard or Butter
2/3 Cup Milk
Preheat oven to 450, even though real chuckwagon cooks used a Dutch oven and
glowing coals for baking biscuits. Mix dry ingredients and cut in shortening until mixture has a texture sort of like corn meal. Add milk and use a fork, spoon or your hand to combine. Put the dough onto a floured surface and roll around until all sides are coated and no longer sticky. Place ball of dough into a well-greased cake pan or iron skillet and pat it down to an even thickness. Grease the top surface with butter or margarine.
Using a soup can, baking powder can or even a small glass; cut one round biscuit right in the middle of the pan. It should then look like a bull's-eye or the insignia on the wing of a Spitfire. For the western history buff, that center biscuit is known as the "Cook's Biscuit".
The tip of an egg turner works just great for the next step but it can be done with a table knife. Cut through the dough between the center biscuit and the rim of the pan in 8 equally-spaced places, making a total of nine biscuits.
See how much simpler that was than trying to cut individual round biscuits which are no longer round once they are shoved together in the pan.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until nice and brown on top.
Nine biscuits should serve four people, unless you happen to have some honey or a jar of Mexican strawberry jam to go with them, and then they will probably only serve two
2 Cups Flour
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
1 Tablespoon Sugar
2 Tablespoons Crisco, Lard or Butter
2/3 Cup Milk
Preheat oven to 450, even though real chuckwagon cooks used a Dutch oven and
glowing coals for baking biscuits. Mix dry ingredients and cut in shortening until mixture has a texture sort of like corn meal. Add milk and use a fork, spoon or your hand to combine. Put the dough onto a floured surface and roll around until all sides are coated and no longer sticky. Place ball of dough into a well-greased cake pan or iron skillet and pat it down to an even thickness. Grease the top surface with butter or margarine.
Using a soup can, baking powder can or even a small glass; cut one round biscuit right in the middle of the pan. It should then look like a bull's-eye or the insignia on the wing of a Spitfire. For the western history buff, that center biscuit is known as the "Cook's Biscuit".
The tip of an egg turner works just great for the next step but it can be done with a table knife. Cut through the dough between the center biscuit and the rim of the pan in 8 equally-spaced places, making a total of nine biscuits.
See how much simpler that was than trying to cut individual round biscuits which are no longer round once they are shoved together in the pan.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until nice and brown on top.
Nine biscuits should serve four people, unless you happen to have some honey or a jar of Mexican strawberry jam to go with them, and then they will probably only serve two
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