Drop Biscuits Recipe So Easy
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This Drop Biscuits recipe that is always considered a treat at my house, met with the same zeal as a dessert even though it is just a bread.
Similar to Hoe Cake
A variation on my Mama’s hoe cake, she often mixed up the same batter and made drop biscuits instead. When I first served hoe cake to my in laws, hot from the oven with generous helpings of homemade apple butter, they declared it a hit. They loved the crispy outer layer and soft as clouds biscuit inside. But the next day when I made them drop biscuits with buttermilk and they assured me that the drop biscuits with apple butter were their new favorite.
Recipe Ingredients:
- Self rising flour
- Vegetable shortening (I like to use Coconut oil these days but use what you want)
- Buttermilk (you can use regular milk if you like)
- Some vegetable oil for the pan
Isn’t it amazing how all of the best Southern recipes have the fewest and most simple of ingredients?
Now take your ugliest baking sheet, one with a bit of a lip around the edges, and pour some vegetable oil on it.
You just need enough to coat the bottom.
Use Your Ugliest Baking Pan 🙂
You know that really ugly baking sheet you have that you make sure you don’t use when company comes? That is the one we want for this. Mine is so old and ugly I covered it in foil so you wouldn’t see! Bless it’s little heart, its a workhorse of a pan though! I normally do not cover my pan in foil so don’t feel that you have to.
Place that baking pan in your oven while it preheats to get the oil good and hot.
Measure your flour into a bowl.
Add your shortening.
Cut your shortening into the flour by repeatedly pressing down with a fork and stirring it up a bit as you do so.
Long Tined Fork Does Just Fine
I’ve mentioned before that you can buy a fancy pastry cutter for this but I find a long tined fork works just as well and I don’t have one more thing to keep up with. Simple is better here at Bountiful.
It’ll look like this when you are done.
Now pour in your buttermilk.
I used the very last bit of milk I had for these drop biscuits! Been so busy lately I haven’t had time to get groceries.
Stir it up until you have a batter that is just a little softer than regular biscuit batter.
It will be lumpy but that is perfectly fine so don’t go frettin’ over it.
Drop globs by large spoonful onto heated baking sheet.
The oil should be hot enough to sizzle a little bit when you add the batter.
How Do I Get The Tops Crunchy?
Tilt your pan a bit until some of the heated oil pools in the corner and spoon a bit of that oil over each biscuit.
This will get us nice and crunchy tops!
Here are our drop biscuits all ready to go.
These are pretty good sized ones and this recipe ended up making about eight of them.
If you make them a little smaller you could get a dozen.
Bake at 425 until golden brown, 10-15 minutes.
Ingredients
- 2 cups self rising flour
- 1 cup buttermilk any milk will do
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening I used coconut oil but use what you like
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425. Pour a thin layer of oil to cover the bottom of a large baking pan and place in oven to heat.
- Cut shortening into flour well. Pour buttermilk in and stir until wet – add a little more milk if needed.
- Drop by large spoonfuls onto well heated pan and spoon a bit of hot oil over each one.
- Bake for ten to fifteen minutes or until browned.
Nutrition
You may also enjoy these biscuit recipes:
Sausage Biscuit with Cheese Southern Style
Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe Light and Buttery
Garlic Cream Biscuits with Bacon Gravy
Happiness is like potato salad,
when shared with others – it becomes a picnic!
Submitted by Southern Plate reader, Kathi.
These sound like something I just might could make come out ok…I haven’t had the “touch” to make biscuits. Of course, my mom only made Hungry Jack flaky biscuits…nothing from scratch (and she called herself a southren girl!)
My favorite meal Mom would make for us was “Meat with Sour Cream Gravy, Red Cabbage, and Homemade Noodles”. Mom passed 13 years ago, and I just recently figured out that the Meat with sour cream gravy was Beef Stroganoff…Still haven’t figured out how she made the red cabbage, though! Need to work on that soon. I would love for my kids to try it so they know what I mean when I say how yummo it was!
P.S. Besides our Mama’s cooking another thing I’ve noticed is different from family to family is how we spell “Mama”. My husband’s family spell it “Momma” but we’ve always spelled it “Mama”. Just a little observation. Nothing to do with biscuits or cooking.
My Mama made biscuits just about every day of her life from the time she was 8 years old! Incredible but true. When I was in school she always made brown gravy for me to eat with my biscuits. My biscuits and gravy come close but will never be exactly like Mama”s.
I have come to prefer making drop biscuits to making regular biscuits, because I don’t have to roll them out so it’s faster and easier. But I’ve never done them in hot oil like that – I usually just grease the baking pan. Now I can’t wait to try it this way – I love the crispy coating on hoe cake and think it looks totally awesome on drop biscuits!
My mom was always a big-batch-of-something-easy kind of cook. We did spaghetti, rice lasagna (rice is cheaper than noodles!), casseroles, anything that could be prepared with a minimum of effort and a maximum of food! With eight kids, that was the only way to cook that made any sense. I loved it! Good home cooking to me will always be more about the great big pans full of cheesy casserole than about roasts and potatoes or fancy dishes. Every time I cook one of the dishes I grew up with it always tastes better than anything else, because of the memories that come with it!
People always ask “Where’s your favorite place to eat out?” My answer was always “At Mama’s!” Anything she touched was wonderful! She made good biscuits too, but she used buttermilk instead of sweet milk. Sadly I didn’t inherit her ability to make good homemade biscuits. I just can’t get them right. So I usually depend on whop or frozen biscuits. My mama is gone now and I really miss her.
Thanks for your posts. You bring back good memories!
I’m gonna try these. I have never been able to make a good buscuit. Mine were always heavy and hard, you could drop mine and it would probably make a hole in the floor 🙂
sounds like you maybe kneading too much…
People use to ask me
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