Awards from my pals...and Mama's Angel Biscuits

You know, these awards are so heart warming to me. It means maybe I'm doing something right and that others find some humor or upliftment in what I have to say and I thank San at Life with A View (and what a view it is http://alifewithaview.blogspot.com/) for this Gratitude with Attitude award...I will admit that I definitely have an attitude. I got it from my Mama. And for Vee to think me worth the E for Excellence award...well...thank you my dear Vee. She is a most excellent blogger and you can find her at http://ahavenforvee.blogspot/. Please visit my friends, you certainly won't regret it! Later in the week I will passing these awards right on out, but first I want to share the recipe for Angel Biscuits then as we have a storm moving in, will sign out for awhile. Well, after visiting the rest of my friends.



Mama collected recipes the way some people collect stamps or coins. She had so many different types of recipes that should I live to be 99, well I won't have gotten through a quarter of them. She was the kind of cook that should unexpected company arrive she could take a pound of shoe leather and you'd think you just had fillet Mignon. The Angel Biscuit recipe came from an old Southern Living Magazine years ago and was a blue ribbon prize winner at the Columbia State Fair in South Carolina in (according to notes) October, 1954. They are light tender biscuits, easy to make and the best things to eat them with are...well, anything. Mac loves them with honey on them. He has decided to eat at least 2 tablespoons of honey daily since he discovered that he can't take any of the cholesterol lowering meds. This is the recipe, and whether you think you can make a biscuit or not, please try it! I'm going to skip down a line or two so you can copy and paste and print this recipe.



Angel Biscuits
Ingredients:

2 cups buttermilk

1 cup vegetable shortening

1 package dry yeast

1/4 cup warm water

4 tablespoons sugar

5 cups regular flour (not self rising!)

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon baking powder

melted butter (optional)



Procedure: Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Warm the buttermilk with the shortening stirring to melt. Let it cool to lukewarm. Add the yeast which you have softened in the 1/4 cup warm water. Add the sugar.



Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder. Add this to the buttermilk mixture. Stir to mix and place it in a covered bowl and let it sit overnight, if you like. If you want biscuits immediately, put 1/2 cup of flour on a butcher block or cutting board, spread it about, then break off about 1/4 of the dough and put it in the flour. (The leftover biscuit dough will keep in the fridge for up to five days. In all this recipe makes makes about 3 dozen biscuits if you have a crowd coming!) Sprinkle a little flour on top of the dough, knead just a few times and roll it out to about 1 inch in depth, take a biscuit cutter (or a can that has both ends cut out). Place each biscuit on a baking sheet (Or preferably in cast iron skillet...I use my spider) and bake at 400 degrees for about fifteen minutes, or until nicely browned on top. Brush with melted butter if desired.



Now these are wonderful, you're going to love them...please let me know how they turned out for you. So much better than those "fresh" frozen biscuits...they are to die for!