On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 8:50:47 AM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
> "Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
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> On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 3:56:03 AM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
> > "dsi1" wrote in message
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> > On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 8:41:52 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> > > "dsi1" wrote in message
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> > > On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 9:41:51 PM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> > > > "dsi1" wrote in message
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> > > > My oven goes to 499F which would be about right. It would go higher
> > > > but
> > > > the
> > > > number 5 on the keypad no longer works. Curse you Samsung!
> > > >
> > > > ===========
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> > > > Make sure the dough is very well risen!
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> > > > http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk
> > >
> > > I will sure try. Thanks!
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> > >
> > > Do report back? Incidentally if you stop cursing Samsung the bread gods
> > > might smile down on you ...
> > >
> > >
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> > > http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk
> >
> > It's not good to dis the God of Major Appliances.
> >
> > I made some butter biscuits.
> >
> > 1/2 C. butter
> > 2 1/2 C. flour
> > Sugar - depending on if you want it sweet or not.
> > Salt to taste
> > 1 1/2 t. baking powder
> > 1/2 t. baking soda
> > 1 3/4 C. buttermilk
> >
> > Melt butter and pour into square baking pan. Mix the other ingredients
> > together. Don't over mix! Mixture will be lumpy and bumpy. Pour batter
> > over
> > butter in pan. Flatten. Bake in a 400 degree oven for around 24 minutes
> > until done.
> >
> > Hoo boy, it's good. The bottom comes out crispy and fried.
> >
> > https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/sh...hare_link_copy
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> >
> > Yummm that looks really good) I always tend to get confused when folk
> > talk about biscuits. Ours are flat and crisp <g>
>
> All this time, and you're still confused ?
>
> Don't you have any soft or chewy biscuits? I'm not a big fan of
> crisp cookies. I deliberately under-bake mine so they won't be
> crisp.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
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>
> Only momentarily <g> When you say 'biscuits, I know' what you mean ... it
> was the picture that threw me) That lovely flaky item looked so far from
> biscuits ...

They are lovely. I make them very rarely. My great-aunt was a master
at making them, but I never got to study what she did. By the time
I was old enough, she had moved 1000 miles away.

> I rarely eat biscuits so I don't really know about soft ones. I have never
> been a biscuit fan and they are not something I make

When I was a child, I'd eat practically anything biscuit-like. Packaged
Oreos, home-made (even then I knew they were the best), even some really
lousy ones like these:

<https://www.amazon.com/Keebler-Sugar-Wafers-2-75-oz-pkgs/dp/B000P6TK0K>

Their name is apt. They tasted of sugar and nothing else.

Now I'm much more discriminating, and eat cookies but seldom. We used
to make one batch of chocolate-chip cookies at Christmas, but the last
couple of years we haven't even done that.

Cindy Hamilton