Biscuit Class – Classic 3 Ingredient Biscuits
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Link to this recipe is below the video
Good Morning! Last weekend I got together with a few of my friends who claimed they couldn’t make good biscuits and taught them how to make three different kinds! Everyone’s biscuits turned out beautifully and the great news is that my husband recorded the whole thing so I can bring my Biscuit Classes here to you, as well.
This is the first time we’ve done something like this so there are kinks to work out, of course, but I think this first effort turned out pretty good. We hope to purchase another camera before recording the next series of classes, so you can see my friends off camera more throughout the class. All in all, I think the video makes you feel like you are there, which, for me, is the next best thing to actually having you there :).
Thank you so much for watching and please comment below if you found this video helpful. I have been pleasantly surprised by all of the positive feedback on my “Answering Questions” series of videos and your comments and encouragement have been directly responsible for me doing more!
The links to recipes mentioned in this video can be found below. There is an ad that plays before the video (sometimes) in order to help fund a second camera :). Thanks for your understanding and support!
Recipes Mentioned In This Video:
More photos from this filming can be found on my Instagram (click here).
Stay tuned for more videos from my Biscuit class! Before we’re done I’ll teach you how to make every biscuit shown on this table (yup, they’re all biscuits!). Next time, we’re going to bring a real camera with us, too 🙂
Classic 3 Ingredient Biscuits as taught in the video on this post.
Love the video. I sent the link to my son, he is too kneady. LOL He has been trying to make biscuits for his family for years with no success.
I want the Southern Plate t shirt!!!!
LOL, I hope he finds some helpful tips to not be so kneady in the future!!
First effort, eh? Very well done! Keep the camera you have and save your money– that camera does a great job (it’s the videographer that makes it great. You’re covered!).
Great video! Thanks!
(And don’t get me started on the biscuits…!! Where’s the syrup??)
Love it! Thank you so much for making this video! I have tried only once to make homemade biscuits in my 50 something years, and they were a total fail, so I’ve never tried again. My mom did not enjoy cooking, so I’ve had to teach myself over the years. I will definitely try biscuits again, it helps to watch someone actually do it!
I really love your site, you are a true blessing!
I enjoy your recipes but you r hard to understand for all the chatter. U don’t focus on what u r doing & talk way to much.
Hey Kay! Thanks for being here and I’m glad you enjoy the recipes. As for the chatter and lack of focus (because I enjoy visiting with y’all), I’m afraid you’ll just have to adapt or find a place that is more businesslike. This is a family here and I have no intention of taking the personal element out of it. Wish you the best either way you go!
Gratefully,
Christy
Thank you so much for the video. This is the exact recipe my mother used. She cut her biscuits with a “snuff glass” put a quarter of a pat of butter on each biscuit before baking. They were delicious, and I still use this same recipe. They were nearly as good as my grandmother’s.
My grandmother made hers entirely by hand. She’d made a well in the flour and add lard and buttermilk. She’s work the dough by hand, incorporating the flour as she went. There was always leftover flour around the sides. How much depended on the time of year and the humidity. She’d pinch off a piece of dough, give it a few pats and put it in the pan. Every biscuit would be perfectly uniform in size and flawlessly smooth. She’d cook them until they were nearly done and finish browning the tops under the broiler. Her biscuits were great with butter or gravy, but absolutely perfect all on their own. And they were just as good cold as hot. I think maybe that was the result of the lard. I’ve tried over the years to duplicate her method, but I’ve only ended up with sticky dough up to my elbows and inferior biscuits with not enough crumb. It’s all in the technique. She’d just give them a couple of pats and never seemed to have any dough stuck to her hands. I handle mine too much.
I was also looking at your hoecake recipe. My family made the flour version, too. Our version has the same ingredients as the three ingredient biscuits, but with more liquid, half buttermilk, half water so the batter is pourable, like cake batter. I cook mine on the top of the stove, though. I heat the greased skillet on medium high, then turn it down to medium. I pour in the batter and cover. It’s ready to turn when it’s right on the verge of smoking, the same way you judge when pancakes are ready to flip. I turn the hoecake using a couple of spatulas and put the lid back on. The top will be dry at this point. You have to use a skillet big enough that the hoecake won’t be too thick or else it won’t get done in the middle. The finished product will be about half the height of the biscuits featured in the video. My family would have hoecakes on nights it was too hot to light the oven or when time was a factor. I loved them as a kid and still do.
I know exactly what you are talking about and we call it a Hoecake, too! I filmed two more classes the day I did this and Hoecake was one of them. We just have to have time to get it produced so I can publish it. Here is our recipe: https://www.southernplate.com/2008/07/my-mothers-southern-hoe-cake-recipe.html Very much like your own!!! You just made my heart smile so big!!
God Bless you Christy, I love this video, You made me laugh. I have been making biscuits this way for as long as I can remember. Thank you for sharing. One Alabaman to another, keep it up, you make us proud.
‘The best cooks are Southern born. They cook from the heart, to bless your Soul’.
Gods Grace and Blessing fill Your life.
Randall.
“Rocket City the place to be, Shooting far the Stars.”
Blessings to you as well Randall!!! So glad you enjoyed the video!!! Thank you for bearing with me and watching it all!!
Can you mix the biscuit dough up in the morning and bake them in the evening?
You can try it but the ingredients in the self rising flour that cause them to rise are activated when you mix them with the liquids so they may go through their cycle and lose their oomph by the time you bake them. I’ve never heard of anyone making this dough up ahead of time but if you try it (and especially if it works!) please report back!