JOYCE PORTER'S PERFECT BUTTERMILK BISCUITS
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups sifted plain flour 1 tablespoon baking
powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
5 tablespoons lard
1 cup buttermilk
Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and soda; cut in lard till mixture
resembles coarse crumbs. Add buttermilk, all at once, and stir till dough
follows fork around bowl. Turn out and knead 1/2 minute. Roll
3/8 inch thick; brush with melted fat or salad oil; fold over
and cut double biscuits. Bake on un-greased cookie sheet in very hot
oven 450 degrees 15 to 20 minutes.
YIELD: 2 dozen - depending on the biscuit cutter used.
NOTE: This is the biscuit recipe that Joyce Porter aka
"Tweet" modified by using real hog lard. My bride later
informed me after web publishing that this recipe was from one of her early
cookbooks but can't remember which one. These biscuits will bake
up golden brown and will absolutely melt in your mouth. My Mama calls
them "pulley biscuits" because you can pull them apart without
them crumbling all over the place. This is the biscuit that will allow
you to "sop" up gravies of all types like: sawmill, red eye
and Po Boy gravy, better known as Hoover gravy; not to mention black
molasses mixed with real churned and printed butter and eat milk and sweeten
coffee soaked dunking biscuits and simply bore a hole into the biscuit with
your finger and add your favorite jelly, jam or molasses......this
technique might have predated the jelly and cream filled pastry!
Grin if you must!Bill aka Mickey Porter February 15,
1999 and web published on 08-21-08
Above pix taken January 2002 of my brides homemade buttermilk biscuits
using real lard instead of Crisco or other types of shortening. They
tasted just as good as they look. PS: She did use a
biscuit cutter to get them that round and uniform in size. Most of the
"ole timers" simply got a piece of dough from the main dough
ball and choked a piece off the size they wanted and rolled it
in the palm of the hand, placed the dough ball onto the baking pan and
flattened the biscuit out with the back of the hand/knuckles. My
grandma Coley, my Mother and my bride's Mom used that technique and their
biscuits were great tasting and looking too! Pix below of
Joyce aka my
"bride" in 1978. She is still the love of my life!
Another batch of my brides biscuits she baked on 07-12-12. They went
very well with some Southern Fried Chicken and mashed potatoes.
Web posted by Bill aka Mickey Porter 07-12-12.
LATEST BATCH OF BUTTERMILK LARD BISCUITS
Above biscuits baked on 03-07-2023 and
were "off the chain good."
SEQUENCE PIXS TAKEN
For many decades, my bride used Red Band brand all-purpose flour
which was discontinued in 2003. White Lily and Southern Mills are
a good brand of all-purpose flour to use in my humble opinion.
Cutting the lard into the seasoned flour.
Mixing the buttermilk with the flour mixture
Biscuit dough ready to be kneaded
Kneading the dough
I left out pix using the rolling pin to flatten the dough out, my
bad! Using biscuit cutter.
Panning the biscuits. These biscuits are much larger than the
ones she made years ago. Could not find the smaller biscuit
cutter.
Biscuits in the oven.
I brushed melted butter onto the biscuits when out of the oven!
The buttermilk lard biscuits were "off
the chain good!"
According to my bride, the dough trough is much
larger than needed and will probably end up as a decor piece, but I
wanted her to use it at least one time using her buttermilk lard biscuit
recipe.
Web page updated by Bill aka Mickey Porter on
03-07-2023.
LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please take
this moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation
will be attained.
Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8 For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.”
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.”
Open this
link about faith in the King James
Bible.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
link of Bible Verses About Salvation,
King James Version Bible (KJV).
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;”
Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?”
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."
