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On Sep 21, 2:45 pm, Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig >
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> On Sep 19, 11:31 pm, sf > wrote:
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> > On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:38:38 -0500, Sky >
> > wrote:

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> > >..... learn to make biscuits!!! I mean - how hard is it to make
> > >biscuits??? It's just flour, fat (butter and/or veg shortening) and
> > >milk/buttermilk, yes????? How hard are those to combine???? but dang!
> > >Twist or no-twist to the cutters? What else?!

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> > >Besides, what about 'toppings' <G>

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> > >Sky, a biscuit novice!

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> > Hey, I can make biscuits but I don't want to. I tried to find that
> > brand Jill talked about you can buy frozen but all they had was the
> > same brand you can get in a can. Didn't buy it.

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> > --
> > I love cooking with wine.
> > Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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> When I was working with food bank stuff, we used to get great big (48
> count?) trays of frozen biscuits from (believe it or not) McDonald's!
> They were pre-baked and only needed browning. Pretty loosely packed
> on paper trays covered with cellophane (purposely NOT air tight!) We
> put 'em on cookie sheets in a 400 degree oven for about 8 to 10
> minutes. Wonderful! Their freezer life was a couple of months, but
> we used them up pretty fast - for everything from Chicken 'n'
> Biscuits to Tuna Melts to Shortcake! I have never seen them in the
> freezer case at the grocer. Too bad! I can't make 'em from scratch
> as good as that . . . OR as good as my mom's.
> Lynn in Fargo


That sounds like a lovely way to get "home-made" biscuits...I like
Hardee's better than McD's, and there isn't (so far) a good copy-cat
recipe out there.

N.