Melanies Southern Biscuits Recipes

SOUTHERN HOMEMADE BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 500 degrees and lightly spray a baking sheet with cooking spray.
• Place flour into a medium bowl and cut in the shortening until well incorporated. Stir in just enough milk until the dough leaves the sides of the bowl.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Gently knead two or three times. Roll dough out to 1/2-inch thickness and cut with a biscuit cutter or small glass that has been dipped in flour. Place the biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until golden brown.

SOUTHERN BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.
• Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey, that's life.)
• Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.

OUR FAVORITE BUTTERMILK BISCUIT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475°F. Grate frozen butter using large holes of a box grater. Toss together grated butter and flour in a medium bowl. Chill 10 minutes.
• Make a well in center of mixture. Add buttermilk, and stir 15 times. Dough will be sticky.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Lightly sprinkle flour over top of dough. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll dough into a ¾-inch-thick rectangle (about 9 x 5 inches). Fold dough in half so short ends meet. Repeat rolling and folding process 4 more times.
• Roll dough to ½-inch thickness. Cut with a 2 ½-inch floured round cutter, reshaping scraps and flouring as needed.
• Place dough rounds on a parchment paper-lined jelly-roll pan. Bake at 475°F for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Brush with melted butter.

MELANIE'S SOUTHERN BISCUITS

Steps:

• Mix the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
• Blend in the 2 Tablespoons Crisco until the mixture is coarse and grainy, using a fork or pastry blender.
• With a fork, stir in the buttermilk.
• DO NOT OVERMIX.
• On a floured board pour dough out and knead 4-5 times.
• Pat the dough out to about 1/2-inch thick.
• Cut with biscuit cutter or a floured dipped glass into rounds or pizza cutter for squares.
• It is very important not to handle the dough too much as it will get tough.
• Place 1 Tablespoon Crisco in heavy black cast iron skillet; place in pre-heated 500º oven for 5-6 minutes.
• Crisco and skillet should be very hot.
• Remove skillet from oven and place the biscuits in the skillet, turning each once in the oil.
• Bake for 10 minutes or till light brown.

MELANIE'S CHILI

Steps:

• In a large saucepan over medium-high heat, cook beef and onion until meat is no longer pink. Stir in tomatoes, tomato sauce, beans, chili powder, cumin, cayenne and garlic. Cover, reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.

MELANIE'S CHICKEN BISCUITS CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish with butter.
• Mix cooked chicken, sour cream, onion, cream of chicken soup, and milk in a large bowl; pour into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until hot, about 15 minutes.
• Stir 1/2 cup Cheddar cheese into the mixture and arrange unbaked biscuits over top of casserole. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup Cheddar cheese over biscuits.
• Return to oven and bake until biscuits are done in the middle and the chicken mixture is bubbling, 25 to 30 more minutes.