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Do you have to have shortening and buttermilk to make biscuits?
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∙ 16y ago
The shortening can be replaced with butter of margarine. One can replace buttermilk with regular milk or you may add a teaspoon of vinegar to the milk which will make it curdle.
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Can I use almond milk instead of buttermilk in biscuits?
No, milk is thicker than water it will dry out the biscuits. Yes, but you would have to add in some other form of fat like butter, margarine, or shortening.
What is a healthy recipe of buttermilk biscuits?
You can use any favorite recipe with shortening, you just use 1/4 more than with pure shortening.
Is buttermilk biscuits a chemical change?
No because the ingredients do not change their shape.
You want to substiute oil for shortening in biscuits?
When you make biscuits you cut in the shortening, this process is what makes your biscuits light and airy. Once that is finished you add your liquids, stir minimally and then knead the dough to bring it all together. Using oil in the same mixture is more likely to produce a watery batter that can not be kneaded. It might produce an acceptable pancake batter but not a buscuit.
You are making tea biscuits and it asks for shortening what can you use?
Any solid shortening will work. The finished product will vary a little bit in flavor, but should be acceptable. For tea biscuits, I would use butter or margarine for flavor. Crisco or other vegetable shortening will work but I would stay away from animal fats.
What are cat head biscuits?
They are large buttermilk biscuits that are roughly the size of a cat head. Fortunately, cat heads are not an ingredient in the recipe. The term originates from the US Carolinas region.
What are good buttermilk recipes?
There are many good buttermilk recipes. Among them are southern biscuits, new potato salad, instant pancake mix, hushpuppies, simple homemade pancakes, and fried chicken.
What are the buttermilk recipes?
You can use buttermilk in a wide variety of recipes such as biscuits, waffles, bread, scones, and even candy. You can find many more recipes that uses buttermilk, and other ingredients, at Cooks.com. Performing a search on "buttermilk" on the website would bring up hundreds of recipes, which includes the items I listed before.
What is a food flavouring often used in ice cream?
Biscuits [American baking powder biscuits] aren't usually flavored, but the flavor they have come from the fat and liquid. I.e.: Biscuits made with butter and buttermilk have a pleasant mouth feel and buttery flavor while biscuits made with shortening and water have very little flavor. Just remember to not over mix your biscuits or they'll be tough and non-flaky. In Britain and several other English-speaking countries, "biscuits" refers to the small sweet cakes that Americans call "cookies." These can be flavored with a wide variety of extracts, flavorings or added ingredients, including vanilla, almond, mint, chocolate, etc. American baking powder biscuits are sometimes flavored with sharp crated cheese, or with savory herbs such as sage and thyme. Biscuits with raisins are served with a vanilla flavored sugar glaze. Cinnamon sugar biscuits are sometimes served for holidays.
Do they still make Jiffy buttermilk biscuit mixes?
They still make a buttermilk baking mix.
Use lard instead of shortening?
Shortening didn't come about until the 20th century, lard was used in place of shortening because it was what was on hand. When making things like biscuits and cornbreads country cooks often used bacon drippings (grease saved from cooking bacon).
How many calories is a buttermilk biscuit?
Depends on the size of the biscuit. Biscuits from Popeye's Fried Chicken are 260 calories.
