I have been thinking about making savory biscuits by mixing meat, cheese, onions, etc. into the biscuit dough. I have noticed that it is much easier to incorporate such ingredients in low gluten biscuit dough than in high gluten bread dough. This version is Buttermilk Biscuits for Two plus 5 oz. of Taylor pork roll, Read More …
This is a vegetarian version of biscuit bombs, combining Buttermilk Biscuits and Potato and Cheese Filling. ¼ cup of filling per Biscuit Bomb. A full batch of the filling will fill 16 biscuits. I like to add a little SriRacha or other hot sauce to the biscuit bombs.
We recently bought a large quantity of peaches at a roadside stand in eastern North Carolina, and decided to turn many of them into jam. This version is an adaptation of a recipe in Southern Living’s Little Jars, Big Flavors, and it turned out very well. It made a little more than 9 half-pint jars. Read More …
Biscuit bombs with home-made buttermilk biscuits are quite easy to make as explained in my posting on Biscuit Bombs. They can be made even more easily with large store-bought biscuit dough. Each of the doughs should be flattened out to about a 6 inch circle and then a covered by a layer of shredded cheddar Read More …
Instructions to follow Pain au Chocolat is another way to use the dough for Croissants, and I used half of the dough for this purpose. All that is needed is the dough, some chocolate chips, and a beaten egg for an egg wash. Roll out the croissant dough until a single recipe is a 17 Read More …
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Carol recently bought a pan for baking 6 donuts, so I kept my eyes open for baked donut recipes. I spotted the Easy Baked Donut Cookbook on line at a good price, bought it, and made its coffee cake donuts. I don’t think they looked very donut-like, but they were tasty and cooked quickly. I Read More …
The staff of Food52.com raved about a monkey bread recipe in the cookbook Hot Bread Kitchen. That was the starting point for this dish. Instead of basing it on their challah dough recipe, I based it on Pain Brioche Commune because it was a recipe that I could start on Saturday afternoon, have rest overnight Read More …
Biscuit bombs are North Carolina’s answer to the Texan sausage and cheese kolache ( Kolaches ). I heard about them when Nick and Anna got a kit to make them from “Farmer and the Dail”, a restaurant in Snow Hill, NC (an unlikely name for a town in eastern NC where it very seldom snows!) Read More …
This is a traditional English bun for Easter. This version is an adaptation from Bernard Clayton’s Complete Book of Small Breads. On Good Friday, I made the dough, gave it a first rise, and then split it in half. Half I formed into 6 rolls for Holy Saturday, and half I left in bulk, to Read More …