Homemade Biscuits Easy with Pioneer
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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!
To make Perfect Pioneer Biscuits, you need Milk and Pioneer Brand Baking Mix.
That’s it.
No really, I’m serious.
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.
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.
Place three cups of baking mix into a bowl and add one cup of milk.
Stir that up a bit until it is all moistened.
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.
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~
Dump out your biscuit dough and sprinkle a little baking mix or powder onto the top.
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.
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.
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.
This is a pizza cutter. I roll it a bit in some flour and then…
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 :).
Oh yeah, that’s more like it!!!
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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ck out alice.com. you can order things from this site and they send straight to your house. if they don’t carry it you can ask them to and they might add it. bisquick is too salty to me. you can make anything with this mix. dumplings, cobblers, anything you need. the one who cut crisco into hers/his, i used to use the butter-flavored crisco for this purpose. years ago my son would call me at work to find out how to make these biscuits with the butter-flavored crisco.
i have used pioneer biscuit mix for decades and my mother and brother all use it. i had a little problem though, that is how i found this site. the last box my son bought me and brought home was only half full. of course i could tell as soon as i picked it up but he did not notice. i had enough to make the strawberry cobbler i needed it for though. i put bacon grease on top of my biscuits. this makes them yummy. really. try it; you’ll like it. honest. does anyone else do this?
I have always used bacon grease for the top of my biscuits. Learned this from my Mamma. She told me the grease killed the taste of the flour.
My daddy did every Sunday morning and put them in the cast iron skillet. He has been gone since 2000–age 84. He made some mean biscuits and gravy. Miss him bunches. But I stopped using the bacon/sausage grease around that time. I know use butter or nothing.
I was amazed to find your link ! I seached for Pioneer Baking MIx and your link came up. I was born and raised in Iowa and moved to Missouri where I found and fell in love with PIONEER !! I moved back to Iowa and I absolutely couldn’t find it anywhere so I tried Walmart and even online no stores in a hundred mile radius sold it so I drug out my old Pioneer Brand box that I kept – now remember I moved back to Iowa in 1998- and I looked up the manufacturer of it. I then googled them online and order 6 boxes of their product as well as their cookbook. I received my order 3 weeks ago. Thats a long time waiting for good biscuits !! They are hidden now in my pantry LOL, the box did not say I had to share .LOL.
I may not have been born in the South but I sure know a good biscuit when I taste it. I love to cook especially comfort foods like the Southern cooks are experts at, so yea I do LOVE Pioneer Brand biscuits !! I have given my mother one of my boxes because she grew up watching her mother make biscuits every morning but never learned how to make them. Mine never turned out well from scratch so it was a blessing to find Pioneer.
After making Pioneer Biscuits I have found that Bisquick is too grainey, and gritty. I have tried to get my local grocery chain to order this for their shelves and they just don’t get it – am tempted to mix up a batch and take them in with some of those nasty Bisquick biscuits so they can tell the difference themselves.
Sorry for carrying on but when a product is as GREAT as PIONEER Biscuits I can’t stay quiet about it !!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks ~ Kelly
I have never tried Pioneer Baking Mix, I’ve always made my biscuits from scratch, but this sounds so easy, I’m going to have to try it 😉
Absolutely love your blog.I have never tried that brand ,i have used other brands,Would certainlly love to try pioneer brand,If you say it’s good then It must be……….I love to cook and bake….
Betty
I love your site. I love Southern cooking, I was born and raised in the South. My mom woke me up early every morning to a full homecooked breakfast, which usually included homemade biscuits, sometimes with gravy. I have relied on my Mom or my older sisters to do the Southern cooking thing on Sundays, then I would cook whatever during the week. I am now trying to learn to cook like they do. Thanks for having this site. These pioneer biscuits look great. I cant wait to try this recipe too.
I love Pioneer Biscuit Mix – that’s all I’ve used for years. I recently tried it for my version of Angel Biscuits by dissolving a packet of Active Yeast in warm water – letting it bloom for a couple of minutes – add it to about 3 cups or 4 cups of the Pioneer Buttermilk Mix (I don’t measure much anymore) and some extra milk and roll it out on a floured surface and they come out great. You DO NOT let them do a pre-rise – knead just a little and roll them, cut them and bake them right away at 400 degrees. What’s nice about this – you can do just a small about of biscuits and then I roll the extra dough into a plastic storage bag – put it in my refrigerator and it’s good for about a week to make more biscuits when desired. I’m 71, single and live alone and I love these things. I live in Fort Worth, TX now (about 20 years) – but born and raised in New Orleans. Don’t get more southern than than. 🙂 – I love cooking southern style.