Homemade Biscuits Easy with Pioneer

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Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

Today, I am excited – doubly excited. Triply excited, even.  For one, I get to show you all how to make homemade biscuits a whole lot quicker (this is how I make them on school mornings when we all seem to be running behind). For another, I get to tell you about a great company and the icing on the cake is, I get to bring you a giveaway!!

Since starting Southern Plate, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with people from several prominent companies. There is nothing I love more than finding out that the people behind a product I love are just downright nice folks. I tend to like products better when I know they are made by “people oriented” companies who haven’t lost touch with their consumer. If you’ll look at my sponsors: Hamilton Beach, Wilton, Southern Beauty, and Pioneer Brand, every one of these companies is just plain made up of nice people. I have personal contacts with each one of them and they are all just tickled with the amazing people who read Southern Plate!

Pioneer Brand is a company I have been wanting to work with for a while because I have a few recipes involving their products that I just dearly love for their taste, ease, and time saving help. I also love how very in tune they are with their consumer – as is clearly shown by the convenience of the packaging in their baking mix! Once I discovered Pioneer Brand Baking mix several  years ago, I would never want to use other brands.

Today I am going to bring you Homemade Biscuits with Pioneer. They are super easy, require only two ingredients, and allow you to turn out homemade biscuits with no fuss and little muss. I have a recipe on here for truly, made from scratch, buttermilk biscuits but I have to be honest with y’all – I am no different from you in that I just don’t have time for those very often! These are my “go to” biscuits on busy mornings or when I just need a good biscuit and don’t want to put all of the effort (or time) into it.

Instructions on how to enter are at the bottom of this post!

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer ingredients

To make Perfect Pioneer Biscuits, you need Milk and Pioneer Brand Baking Mix.

That’s it.

No really, I’m serious.

Pioneer packaging

The first thing that attracted me to this product was the packaging. Instead of that silly, messy, nonsensical box we have a nice canister style packaging here. Take our plastic lid off and you have this seal.

Pioneer packaging

Now just cut the end piece of the seal and we have a pourable canister :). There is also a piece of hard plastic that goes across inside the canister right beneath that dotted line to help reinforce this.

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

Place three cups of baking mix into a bowl and add one cup of milk.

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

Stir that up a bit until it is all moistened.

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

I like to lay out a sheet of waxed paper to work with my biscuit dough on so I can just wad it up and toss it when I am done. Sprinkle a bit of pioneer or flour onto the paper.

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

And spread it around well so your dough won’t stick when you pour it out. I am not actually spreading mine well enough so my dough is going to stick a little in the next few pics but I just did that on purpose so y’all wouldn’t feel bad if you did the same thing. ~grins and tries to sound convincing~

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

Dump out your biscuit dough and sprinkle a little baking mix or powder onto the top.

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

Now we have to knead it three or four times. In biscuits, as in life, it is important not to be overly “Kneady”. If you knead your biscuits too much, they will come out flat and hard.

I just pat my dough down and apply light pressure to spread it out a bit.

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

Then I fold it over and pat it out again. At this point, I need to add some more baking mix or flour to that paper because that is why there is dough stuck to it so I’ll do that before I pat it out again.

My point is, pat it out, then fold it over and pat it out again and repeat that two more times and you have some nicely kneaded biscuit dough. 🙂

As far as not flouring my waxed paper enough, I’m gonna invoke the golden rule of parenting here : Do as I say, don’t do as I do. I don’t remember the last time I was able to do a tutorial without kids distracting me. They were fighting over who got to use the laundry basket as their personal boat as I did these.

Mental note: Buy two more laundry baskets so I can actually use one for laundry.

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

Then I just kinda pat mine out like this. You can use a rolling pin but patting it out works fine.

I’m about to show you two ways to cut these. One is more traditional and the other is more streamlined, less wasteful, and easier – but it just feels odd to Southerners.

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

This is a pizza cutter. I roll it a bit in some flour and then…

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

Voila!

But let me tell ya something, as neat as this is and as quick and easy, to a Southerner, there’s just something unnatural about a square biscuit :).

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

Oh yeah, that’s more like it!!!

Homemade biscuits with Pioneer

Place these on a greased baking pan and I like to top mine off with just a light spraying of cooking spray to get them all prettified on the top when they are done. You can use melted butter for this or even a bit of cooking oil brushed on if you like. You can also omit this step entirely.

They bake at 450 for ten to twelve minutes.

Want to make these for yourself? Many Wal Marts carry Pioneer Brand baking mix and tons of grocery stores have it as well. My Wal Mart stopped carrying it ~sighs and shakes her head at Wal Mart~ so I get mine at the Piggly Wiggly!

If you’d like to have a case of Pioneer Brand Baking mix free, delivered straight to your door, leave a comment on this post and I’ll choose 3 winners next Monday!

 

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Wanna really bowl ’em over?

Serve these with Crock Pot Apple Butter, Super Easy Peach Preserves, or Chocolate Gravy! (you can make Chocolate Gravy with Splenda, too!)

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613 Comments

  1. I’m looking forward to receiving Pioneer Brand Baking Mix. I’ve never used it…a bit old-fashioned in making biscuits from scratch, but these appear so much easier and look so good with no having to add the leavenings, salt, and shortening, butter, or oil. I seldom go the trouble of making biscuits anymore since my family is now only two, but these look so great and temptingly good…perfect to go with my homemade blackberry jam. Tired of just toast.

  2. I have never seen Pioneer brand at our stores so would absolutely love to try it as it sounds so yummie. We actually like Bisquick biscuits so if these are better we’d be in “heaven”.

  3. Dear Christy,
    Have you ever heard of a Pioneer biscuit made from soda water…I would love to have it..A friend shared this with me a very long time ago and I have missed placed it. Today Im going to try the buttermilk biscuit you have posted, I have 5 children…And they love biscuits and gravy….Have a great day and thank you for sharing these yummy ideas with everyone….I run out of ideas and this is great for me!!!!!

  4. I was excited a couple years ago to have lunch at the Pioneer Mills restaurant. The food was so good and so much of it. Loved rambling through the gift shop and buying some of the goodies. I recommend this to anyone visiting San Antonio. Would love to win this Pioneer Tin.

  5. I truly like Pioneer products. I especially like their white gravy even though I do not prepare it by the package directions. I tried their way and found that I could tailor it to my own tastes. It is so much better.

  6. Would love to win a case of Pioneer Baking Mix. I use the Pioneer Gravy mixes all the time and my family loves them. Would love to have the opportunity to try the baking mix.

  7. Living here in California I have not found Pioneer products. It would be wonderful to wake up and make some great bisquits for a change instead of the canned ones!(I hear ya all groaning!) Christy I love this site and have been around since almost the start. It is great to watch you grow and great for all the wonderful recipes you share with us.

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