September is ‘National Biscuit Month and today is the last day of September so we have to take last minute advantage and promote Biscuits.  Biscuits are just one of those foods that provide comfort and joy – they are good for Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner or even Snack Time.  Most Biscuits are made from a Baking Powder or Baking Soda Recipe but there are some that are leavened with Yeast.  There is one of each in the Baking Recipe Section of this Blog.  Try them and then let me know how you like them or don’t.

Baking Powder Biscuits are more commonly made and served than Yeast Biscuits.  Baking Powder Biscuits are made from a shortened Dough, which means that a Shortening Product either animal or vegetable is cut into the flour to shorten the wheat fibers which in turn helps to tenderize the product.  A Flour and Water product would pretty much taste like hardtack whereas a product that has a fat in it will be tender and flaky, if made properly.  The recipe referred to within this blog is a standard Baking Powder Biscuit and can be enhanced by adding other products to the mixture such as herbs or cheese.  Try them in various ways and see what you can come up with.  In addition to using them as a bread product for dinner or lunch, they can also be used as dessert.  Strawberry Short Cake is called ‘Short Cake’ because a traditional Strawberry Shortcake is made from a shortened Dough which means that some type of fat has been cut into the flour to tenderize it.  For Strawberry Shortcake you can make one large biscuit in a 9″ round pan and then cut it in half to make two layers.  Fill the middle with Whipped Cream and sliced Strawberries and do the same to the top layer after you put it on the filled bottom layer.  You can also make individual portions by making 4 or 5″ round Biscuits.

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Pictured below are the ingredients needed to make  Baking Powder Biscuits:

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Ingredients Needed – Flour, Baking Powder, Salt,  Butter & Buttermilk

Pumpkin Yeast Biscuits are unusual in that they contain Pumpkin, a product which is not usually found in Biscuits and they contain Yeast.  Most Biscuit products are leavened with Baking Powder which is a chemical leavening agent.

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