Biscuit Week on Get Cookin' on PaulaDeen.com

  • White Lily Flour began milling in 1883 in Knoxville, TN.  Last year Smuckers bought the Mill and moved operations to their two plants in the midwest.  They have tried to duplicate the southern kind but bakers can tell the difference.When the shelves are empty in the grocery stores, you have seen the last of the real White Lily Flour.  I was fortunate to learn about this change of ownership and bought several bags to keep in the freezer, over wrapped, of course.Martha White comes very close to being a good substitute. 
  • My Mom makes the best biscuits in the hole world, she never measures her ingredients. Also, thanks for the update on White Lily I did not know that and we will stock up too.
  • I love White Lilly flour, but now days I have to buy the cheap and it shows when I make my bisuits.  After I first got married I tried to make biscuits so I called up mama, she told me how she didn't measure anything, just eyeball it.  They were awful!!!! like little round white hockey pucks.  My husband tried to eat them so he wouldn't hurt my feelings.  But now he knows he can joke about them, because after 11 years of throwing those hard little biscuits at his head, I got it right!!!!!!  Hurray for me.  Now it's every sunday morning we have scrambled eggs, gravy, choc gravy for the kids and biscuits.  And the secret behind every good biscuit is dabbing bacon grease on the top before you bake them.

  • White Lilly is the best. I love it so much I would order it on-line and pay $6.00 for 5lbs because it wasnt available in AZ. So I will be stocking up thanks for the info.

  • Oh wow!! I have never been able to make a decent biscuit and my Mom makes the most wonderful biscuits on earth!  It has never mattered what kind of flour she uses but maybe if I use the White Lilly it will make a  big difference for me! We will see..lol
  • Growing up around my Nanny in Arkansas, she made biscuits every morning - 7 days a week.  She made her dough just the old fashioned way:  Gold Medal Flour (self rising), baking powder, dash of salt,  cut in the Crisco, and butter milk.  But before she mixed up the dough with her fingers, she preheated the oven, tossed a stick of butter on a cookie sheet and let it melt until her dough was ready.  As she cut her biscuits out with a drinking glass, she would butter each side of the round by flipping it over quickly in the melted butter.  Once she got her pan full, she baked them.  Like some of you other folks, Nanny never used a measuring cup and man were they good!  My story is not unique but I have fond memories of watching her do it.
  • I don't know how goofy it is but maybe....when I bake biscuits I add 3/4 of a cup of mixed taco cheese that comes in a bag,  It gives them a little extra punch and especially good when I'm serving them with chili.

  • I have a crazy good biscuit recipes. I cant wait to submit it. Those garlic cheese biscuits looks so yummy.

    Last edited Nov 7, 2009
  • My Granny made the best biscuits ever. She lived in the Blue Ridge mountains and we would go to visit on Holidays and we always looked forward to whatever she made for us including gravy and biscuits. She used White Lily as well. She also made chocolate butter to go with them. We were always filled with anticipation because everything she cooked was with love. I miss her dearly. I cannot to this day make a descent biscuit. I guess you just can't improve on perfection. Love you Paula, you have that same wonderful southern charm that she had.
  • The next time I make "Cincinnati Chili" these biscuits will accompany it. It sounds like a perfect marriage!
  • Love a biscuit!!! Maybe it'll be chicken & biscuits for dinner one day this week!

  • My mom still has and uses the biscuit cuter that my Daddy made for her when they first got married 51 years ago, it's an old RC cola can that Daddy cut the top off of and punched some holes in the other end. It's amazing to see how big and thick cola cans were back then. I'll try to get a picture and post it for y'all to see. It is the one thing that me and my brother argue over who is going to get it after Mom and Daddy are gone.

  • oh my story about the first time i made biscuits is so funny to my family i decided to try it one day when my boys were small and they cam eout horrible when their daddy pulled in the yard from work they ran out and said daddy guess what mommy made for supper she made cookies lollol  it was so fuuny as that is what they looked like lol

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