This was one recipe that I could not wait to try. At the time, Easter was quickly approaching and I wanted to use these in the cook off that we were having for Easter. One of my cousins, who has been in the Food Industry for years, challenged me to a cook off. Since I love to cook, I was very happy and couldn't wait. I had so many recipes in my head that I wanted to try, namely these biscuits. So I went grocery shopping, made sure that I had all the ingredients and on Easter Sunday, I went to work!!!
It was simple enough, right?
- 2 Cups of Bisquick
- 1/2 Cup of Sour Cream
- 1/2 Cup of 7UP
- 1/4 Cup of Melted Butter
Pour the melted butter in the bottom of the pan and mix the other 3 ingredients.
- You will definitely need more than 2 cups of Bisquick to add in 1/4 cup increments until the dough is not too sticky to handle.
- If you want fluffy, thick biscuits, DO NOT roll your dough to thin. Roll it to the thickness that would allow you to cut out 9 biscuits only. If you can cut out more than 9, then your dough is too thin. If you cannot cut out 9, then your dough is too thick.
- You will need extra Bisquick to shake onto your rolling pin and to put on the counter so that the dough doesn't stick to the counter.
I'm sure you're curious to know how my biscuits turned out...right? Well they were very delicious and definitely a show stopper, BUT... they were a little flat. I made two batches of the above recipe and rolled the dough thin enough to get 12 biscuits per batch. Despite this faux pas of having flat biscuits....EVERYONE loved them. In regards to the cook off...I lost (only winning the meat category). I had some other issues not related to screwed up recipes. I'll save that for another post. This is how they should look!!!!
Tracy, I love your passion for cooking and how you are able to improvise with the recipes. My father is from the south and he doesn't go by any recipes.
ReplyDeleteEverything is a little of this, and a little of that...so that's the way I learned to cook. You add what is needed, taste for what's missing and what needs to be added. My only problem is being I have six other siblings, learning to cook from my father means, I only know how to cook in volumes. Which was a problem, but now with bigger kids, in middle school, high school and one a new truck driver, my large volumes don't make it to left overs very much. I'm interested in reading more of your recipes.
Yum! This looks so good! I may try this recipe, and your corrections will be really helpful. I love pinterest too and i'm in the process of making a recipe I found on that site ... i'm expecting to tweak a couple things along the way as well.
ReplyDelete@terri - what's interesting is that when it comes to cooking I am the same way. I usually just season based on what I think/see. Because, I could not write recipes for my favorite things to good, I decided that this blog needed to take a different angle. You're so right about trying to downsize when you normally cook in volume. I used to feed my neighbor to avoid throwing stuff away.
ReplyDelete@cklomasney - you will not be disappointed with this recipe. Pinterest is my new best friend.