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Biscuits

A small, typically round cake of bread leavened with baking powder, baking soda, or sometimes yeast. The general color is light brown. The earliest biscuits were around 7th Century. In some countries, cookies are referred to as biscuits. You can see the cookie category here.

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How do you fix dry biscuit dough?

You take the rolls of dough and lather egg yolk on the top of the uncooked biscuits with a BBQ brush. You can also add things to the tops of the biscuits by putting what you want on them ontop of the egg yolk. The egg yolk will act as a bonding agent helping the nut,berries,etc, to stick on top.

Can you use cake flour to make biscuits?

There is no reason you could not make biscuits from bread flour, but they would probably not be quite like old-fashioned Southern biscuits. Southern biscuits get their distinct texture from the fact that they are usually made with "soft" flour, i.e. flour ground from soft wheat (soft wheat is the only type of wheat that grew will in the South's climate so until modern times, soft flour was the only flour readily available in the South). Bread flour is "hard" flour. The biggest difference is protein content. Hard flour has more protein than soft flour.

The reason bread flour is so good for bread is because it makes a lot more gluten than all-purpose flour (a mixture of soft and hard flours). Gluten strands form a mesh through the dough, trap the gas released by yeast, and the dough rises. Soft flour has even less gluten than AP flour. Biscuits made with bread flour will probably taste similar, but have a little puffier texture than those made with soft flour. To minimize gluten formation work the dough as little as possible, pat or press the dough out (do not roll), and get them into the oven as soon as possible after shaping the biscuits.

I have been told that a mixture of 3 parts AP flour and 1 part cake flour can approximate a soft flour for biscuit baking.

Where can Mary B's biscuits be purchased?

In our area, (central NC), they can be purchased at Food Lion stores. I saw online earlier that they can be found at some Walmart stores as well.

Can a kitten have biscuits?

It can be bad for them. They can either choke on it or be allergic to it. (Yes, cats CAN have allergies). Also, feeding them human food can develop into a bad habit. They may start to jump up on counters and tables eating human food. It's a waist of food and bad for their health.

When did the first chocolate biscuit appear?

the first biscuit was found in 7th century Persia A.K.A. Iran

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.

What biscuits are gluten free?

For a list of vegan biscuits, click on the related link below -

Are jaffa cakes cakes or biscuits?

I no that a jaffa cake is a biscuit because there on the biscuit isle in asda

What is the average biscuit weight?

They don't all weigh the same. You may need to check the package and calculate for one biscuit.

Potato Biscuits?

Ingredients

  • 1 cup mashed potatoes
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar

Stir butter into potatoes. Dissolve soda in buttermilk, add honey. Mix baking powder, sugar, flour, adding in milk as you go. Press into 3/4 pad, cut biscuits. Bake at 400 until done.

Why does biscuits crack on top when baking?

Pastry is supposed to be crumbly! Just kind of squish it...

But, if it's cooked, crumbly, and just not working, you would have to moisten it...

Try (just a really small smidgen at a time) water!

Can you carry homemade biscuits on an airplane as cabin luggage?

Yes you can take food onto airplanes its just depending on where u are going u might not be allowed to take it in to the country

Can you eat biscuits when you have fever?

You can, but you may not feel like eating, depending on whether your fever is a sign of having the flu. Many people, when they are ill with the flu, lose their appetite; or they have problems with nausea. Biscuits are often very heavy, and when your stomach is upset, something lighter, like toast and jam, might be easier for you to digest. But if your only symptom is fever and you have no problem with nausea, there is no reason why you can't eat a biscuit or two.

Can rabbits eat plain biscuits?

You should avoid feeding rabbits anything other than a diet that they could receive naturally in the wild. i.e a diet of lots of hay and fruit/veg. So although feeding rabbits digestive biscuits/weetabix may not kill the rabbit, it's also not very good for them (they need hard food that take lots of chewing to maintain healthy teeth). Plus rabbits can gain weight quite easily when overfed.

What goes good with chocolate on biscuits?

Milk is a very good one to have with biscuits but so is tea and coffee.

Can guinea pigs eat biscuits?

A gerbil's diet mainly consists of vegetables and nuts (the kind of stuff you see in gerbil mix). While they do not eat meat per-say, gerbil are omnivores and when in the wild gerbils do eat small insects and grubs. Many gerbil mixes you buy at pet stores artificially add protein to supplement this part of their diet. In short, don't try feeding them beef.

i tried giving my gerbils meat and they wont eat it and also onions , challots and baked beans can destroy red blood cells

How many digestive biscuits do you need in a cheesecake?

to make a cheesecake you will need to use about 8 digestive biscuits (you can use more than 8 if you want)

Why do Germans hang biscuits on their Christmas trees?

Okay. Germany and France hang biscuits on their Christmas Trees and i dunno why they do so.

Why do you use oats for ANZAC biscuits?

Anzac biscuits are a crisp (or sometimes chewy) biscuit and therefore use the sugar and butter to provide this texture. Biscuits that have eggs in their ingredients are softer and fluffier, like brownies, because of the resilience that the egg protein adds.

What makes biscuits fluffy?

read the article on biscuits that was published by Cooks Illustrated magazine, November 2007. They tried dozens of recipes and made hundreds of batches in order to find the best recipe. The recipe they came up with uses both baking powder AND baking soda:

== - makes 12 biscuits - Ingredients 2 cups (10 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon sugar

3/4 teaspoon table salt

1 cup cold buttermilk

8 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly (about 5 minutes), plus 2 tablespoons melted butter for brushing biscuits Procedure 1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 475°F. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt in large bowl. Combine buttermilk and 8 tablespoons melted butter in medium bowl, stirring until butter forms small clumps. 2. Add buttermilk mixture to dry ingredients and stir with rubber spatula until just incorporated and batter pulls away from sides of bowl. Using greased 1/4-cup dry measure, scoop level amount of batter and drop onto parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet (biscuits should measure about 2 1/4 inches in diameter and 1 1/4 inches high). Repeat with remaining batter, spacing biscuits about 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake until tops are golden brown and crisp, 12 to 14 minutes. 3. Brush biscuit tops with remaining 2 tablespoons melted butter. Transfer to wire rack and let cool 5 minutes before serving.

Recipe from Cook's Illustrated Magazine, November 2007