For as long as I can remember my mom has always used the same recipe for her baking powder biscuits. I had always thought that it was a family recipe handed down from mother to daughter over the years, but no. It actually came from a very unexpected origin.
The other day my mom was making biscuits so thinking that it would be a cool story for my blog I asked her whose recipe it was. She stopped what she was doing, turned, looked at me and laughed. She said, “Well, its not a family recipe... I use the recipe off my Tupperware dough mat. (she then laughs) If I ever lose that mat I won’t know how to make them!” All I could do was shake my head and laugh. I then asked her where and when she got the dough mat, because she has had it for as long as I can remember. She thought about it for a minute and then decided it must have been a wedding shower present... probably from her mom, but she wasn’t sure.
So there you have it, all along I thought that it was a family recipe passed down through the generations and as it turns out, it was! Just not quite in the way I had expected!! =)
- Jennifer Figgins
Daughter of Jesse Figgins and Mary Bryan
Baking Powder Biscuits
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| From the infamous Tupperware dough mat! |
Ingredients:
2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1 Tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup milk
Wisk the dry ingredients together.
Cut in the shortening.
Slowly add the milk into mixture forming a loose dough.
Do not over work the dough.
On a lightly floured surface flatten out the dough until it is about an inch thick.
Cut out biscuit rounds and place onto a cookie sheet.
Bake in a 450 degree oven until biscuits are light golden brown on top.
Yield: 12 High Biscuits (its actually about 9 one inch high biscuits)
Note from Mom: "sometimes I add some sugar.... 1/4 cup... ehh... well maybe a couple tablespoons... or what ever you feel like! (laughs) I usually just take the sugar dispenser and pour some in! (laughs some more) Just depends on what I'm making them for."
2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1 Tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup milk
Wisk the dry ingredients together.
Cut in the shortening.
Slowly add the milk into mixture forming a loose dough.
Do not over work the dough.
On a lightly floured surface flatten out the dough until it is about an inch thick.
Cut out biscuit rounds and place onto a cookie sheet.
Bake in a 450 degree oven until biscuits are light golden brown on top.
Yield: 12 High Biscuits (its actually about 9 one inch high biscuits)
Note from Mom: "sometimes I add some sugar.... 1/4 cup... ehh... well maybe a couple tablespoons... or what ever you feel like! (laughs) I usually just take the sugar dispenser and pour some in! (laughs some more) Just depends on what I'm making them for."
I'm telling you, the laughter never
ends with this one! =)
Now if she loses the mat (or holes get melted into it like mine :-), she will be able to find the recipe. :-)
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU for posting this! My mat "died" so didn't move south with us a couple years ago ... today I really wanted these biscuits with our lunch so thought, "Hey! Why not try Googling it?" y'know...the Tupperware baking powder biscuit recipe. Well, shiver me timbers ... HERE IT IS! YOU saved my lunch plans!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the recipe! I found out recently that I wasn't supposed to eat bread made with yeast in a gout diet, so remembered somebody in the family had that recipe once upon a time and asked yesterday on Facebook. A cousin gave me your link. Has your mother made other yummies using the basic recipe? I also am interested in handed down recipes and have listed several on my genealogy blog from ancestors. Some of them I wouldn't necessarily want to eat, unless I was STARVING! :)
ReplyDeleteI make the standard recipe above but roll in out pretty thin. Add a Cup of shredded sharp Cheddar and roll it up sweet roll style. Cut roll in half then each half cut in half again. Each 1/4 then gets cut into 1/3. You now have 12 cheddar biscuits to use as a top for chicken and noodles or pot pie.
ReplyDeleteMy mat belonged to my grandparents and got lost in a move. I used to make these all the time when my oldest son was small. I cant wait to make them again! Thank you so much for posting this!
ReplyDeleteThanks a mill,,,,,,,my husband makes these I lost my roll out sheet in a move...
ReplyDeleteGot my mat at an auction in 1980. Have used it forever until my daughter bought me a new one. Yup...didn't have that biscuit recipe that I have used for 35 years to make strawberry short cake. You SAVED our summer party by posting this recipe.
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