My daughter came home from school yesterday and gleefully exclaimed “Mom – we have to make biscuits!”
She is studying the story Biscuits of Glory by Bruce Coville in school. It’s a story about a boy who meets a ghost making biscuits in his kitchen and he learns the strange story of why she haunts his kitchen…and what someone must do in order to break the curse that holds her to the mortal world.
She read part of the story to me and after listening to it I agreed, I too was now craving biscuits.
I enjoy cooking but my true love is baking so making biscuits is always fun because making these involves all of the skills of baking. The best bakers chop shortening, flour and baking powder with a pastry cutter. It needs to be chopped up just right, a little grainy but not too lumpy. It’s a skill that I now enjoy passing on to my daughter as we make pie crusts and other baked goods.
Here’s the secret to good biscuits: The Baking Powder. You need high quality baking powder so the biscuits rise just perfectly.
Eating biscuits with jelly and butter for dinner was a fun change and absolutely delicious! I’d do it again.
Here is the recipe if you want to give it a try.
