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    Biscuits And Chocolate Gravy


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    1/4 cup flour
    3/4 cup sugar
    2 T. cocoa
    2 cups milk
    splash of vanilla
    Bring to a boil for 2 minutes while stirring constantly. May need to add additional milk to get to the desired gravy thickness. Serve over hot biscuits.

    Grandma's (Handmade) Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits

    Ingredients:

    3 cups all purpose flour
    3 teaspoons baking powder
    3/4 cups buttermilk
    1 teaspoon salt
    3/4 teaspoon baking soda
    3/4 cup Crisco shortening

    Sift the flour to make sure there are no lumps. Add in
    the baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Add the
    Crisco slowly, working it into the dry ingredients.
    You can use a large spatula or spoon, but I preferred
    using my hands.

    Next add the buttermilk, working it into the mixture
    too. After everything is thoroughly mixed, plop it
    down on a floured counter top or cutting board.

    Turn you oven to 450° F. to allow it to preheat. While
    it's heating up knead your dough until it is about
    the consistency of clay that kids play with in
    grade school. You can make it a little dryer
    if need be by sprinkling more flour on your
    counter or cutting board. As you knead your dough
    it will pick up more of the flour.

    After you have it the right consistency you can
    shape your biscuits by hand or using a cookie
    cutter. I preferred pinching off a chunk, rolling
    it into a ball, and then patting it a little flat.
    It takes a little practice to get your biscuits all
    about the same size. If you want them more perfect,
    you can roll out your dough using a rolling pin and
    then cut them with a round cookie cutter. That
    would look neater when you have company over.

    Anyway, place your biscuits on a cookie sheet that
    is either lightly greased or lightly sprinkled with
    flour. If you use the flour option, be sure not to
    put too much.

    Bake these biscuits for rougly 18 minutes on the
    middle rack in your oven (depends upon how hot
    your oven is and how far this rack is from the
    top). If the rack is too low you can move the
    biscuits to the top rack the last minute of so
    to get them browned just the way you want. Leave
    them on the middle rack and they should turn out
    lightly browned.

    Pop them out of the oven and eat them while still
    piping hot. That's the only way to get the butter
    to melt just right.


 

 

 


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