1 post tagged “baking”

Growing up in suburbia in a family that cooked instead of eating out, I have acquired a weakness for certain processed foods.  Because I was exposed to them so early, I still love Velveeta, Cool Whip, and anything made with Bis-quick.  I feel a bit guilty about this, even more so because I like to cook and bake, and I feel like I'm cheating.

Finally, I made biscuits that are as good as the store bought ones. 

You know how the ones you make out of a pre-made Pillsbury roll always come out super flaky and buttery (well, at least butter-flavory)?  I have been trying to make biscuits from scratch that do that.

Here they are.

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I am tempted to post the entire recipe here, but I want you to go and check out the Blog where I found it.  Bacon Press is kind of like food porn.  As a bonus, he is right here in San Francisco.

The fine gentleman at Bacon Press is right when he says that you have to do it exactly as he says.  I am finding more and more as I learn how to cook and bake that ihow you put the ingredients together is just as important as the ingredients themselves.

I did cheat a bit and use skim milk instead of whole milk, but it seems to have worked.  Also, instead of a biscuit cutter, I used a drinking glass.  You have to be careful with that, though.  Glass Shard biscuits don't sound that tasty.

A trick I discovered, if you don't have a food processor or a pastry blender, is instead of cutting the butter into the flour with two knives, shred it with a cheese shredder.  Of course, it has to be frozen for this to work, but that's how it is supposed to be.

Now I just gotta figure out how to make macaroni and cheese from scratch that is better than Mac n' Cheese with Velveeta.  Maybe they would know here.

As an aside, I found this kind of interesting.