homemade rolled biscuits

Rolled biscuits -- a division of labor

There are some marriages where the spouses are interchangeable, but mine isn't one of them. He is laundry. I am scrubbing. He is anything with a hammer. I am most things with a grocery cart.

In the kitchen, I cook. He bakes. Period.

Baking makes no sense to me. All those rules and rolling things around. And it is dusty. And mostly, I'm no good at it.

These days, there is little time for things like homemade biscuits, but there they were the other morning as I wandered out of the bedroom, hair askew and eyes still blurry. And sitting on the kitchen table was the trifecta of domestic bliss: a newspaper, a cup of coffee and biscuits. Golden, fluffy, flake-apart biscuits.

The funny part is that for reasons involving blood sugar and waistlines, I didn't eat any of the biscuits. But I enjoyed them all the same. There was someone in my life who made biscuits. And a warm kitchen and the smell of coffee and fresh baking.

I felt plenty full.

posted November 8, 2007 | link | comments (11)

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Those look great. Are they homemade? I can't find a really good biscuit recipe.

- by zenzele on Nov 9, 2007 at 8:31 AM | link

These are the rolled biscuits from The Joy of Cooking, page 632 in our edition.

- by celinabean on Nov 9, 2007 at 8:54 AM | link

Wish I could feel full just from the smell of biscuits. Alas.

- by julia thorne on Nov 11, 2007 at 10:56 AM | link

I'm gonna have to try those - I have the Joy of Cooking!

- by zenzele on Nov 11, 2007 at 4:53 PM | link

I'll ask my husband to post any special tricks he has. He's been making the recipe for years.

- by celinabean on Nov 11, 2007 at 5:52 PM | link

Biscuit tips:

I have no idea what is necessary, and what is just for fun, but here is how I make biscuits:

It's probably just my inner engineer, but I do sift the dry ingredients together, and I have a pastry cutter. I cut in the maximum amount of butter allowed (and maybe a bit more) to the dry ingredients. Then I add the milk, and mix with a spoon just enough to grab the blob by hand. Then, I pound it flat, then fold it over and repeat until I've lost interest. If it gets too wet, it sticks to everything. When that happens, I stick my hand in flour so it doesn't stick to my hands, and after I do that a few times, it stops sticking to the bowl too. Finally, I slice it up and put it on the sheet to cook.

- by bill on Nov 11, 2007 at 6:46 PM | link

Those biscuits look awesome!

- by Amelia on Nov 17, 2007 at 1:56 PM | link

Yeah. Where's the recipe, doofus?

- by George M. on Nov 25, 2007 at 9:27 AM | link

When my children speak to me that way, I often ask them if they can think of a better way to ask the question.

But I've actually had a few good laughs about the word doofus this morning, so here is the link to the recipe.

http://www.thejoykitchen.com/recipe.lasso?recipe=1127&menu=one

- by celinabean on Nov 25, 2007 at 1:39 PM | link

Those look so good! You are one lucky woman, Celina Bean!

- by gabrielle on Nov 30, 2007 at 4:45 PM | link

Don't I know it.

- by on Dec 2, 2007 at 9:13 PM | link

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