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More than four hundred years ago, explorers of the New World carried a biscuit known as hardtack on their voyages. Hardtack was made from flour, water, and sometimes salt and was sturdy and long-lasting, making it suitable for hard, treacherous journeys. The composition and texture of the hardtack biscuit changed at the hands of the Jamestown settlers, who had access to three necessary ingredients that would transform the difficult-to-bite and bland tasting hardtack into a soft, delicious biscuit: soft winter wheat, fat in the form of lard from pigs, and milk or buttermilk from cows.

Today’s version of biscuits barely resembles its predecessor. Our preference is for soft, billowy, flaky, and delicious biscuits that can be eaten alone, used as a vehicle for fillings and toppings, or incorporated as an ingredient in a recipe. While biscuits are wildly popular in our culture, they are known to intimidate home cooks. Jackie Garvin overcame her decades long biscuit-making failures by research and trial and error, and has emerged to write a cookbook that simplifies and demystifies biscuit baking and highlights the prevalence of biscuits throughout the United States.

Rich in Southern history, as well as touching family memories, Biscuits presents a collection of more than seventy recipes including raspberry biscuit pudding with vanilla ice cream sauce, ham biscuits with honey mustard butter, loaded baked potato biscuits, and spicy pimento cheese bites. Also included are recipes for multiple gravies, toppings, and biscuit “neighbors” such as peach raspberry scones, chocolate toffee monkey bread, hush puppies, and chicken ’n’ dumplings.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse; Reprint edition (February 6, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1510718753
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1510718753
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Reviewer: beadgal
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice collection of bisquit recipes.
Review: Great collection of recipes I bought the first book locally for a gift and upon looking through it I liked it so much. I bought the second copy on Amazon..

Reviewer: Vernonmpegram
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Biscuits
Review: Book is easy to read and understand. Baked 3 different biscuit recipes. Followed directions and all were delicious. Great with sausage gravy and eggs for breakfast. Butter and jam great or bacon egg sandwich. Glad I purchased.

Reviewer: JKozloski
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Back To Basics
Review: Great recipes and easy format to follow. I am a novice baker and appreciate the ease of use including the instructive photos. For those who want the basics, this is the book.

Reviewer: barbara jones
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This book is a good teacher
Review: I brought this book years ago because I like it. Thanks

Reviewer: Homeschool Mama
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful little cookbook!
Review: The biscuits are wonderful with lots of options... not just breakfast or dinner biscuits. To name two recipes: I have tried the cheese wafers-- yum, but my favorite so far, believe it or not, is the dill biscuit.The cookbook includes lots of cute stories and side bars-- I like the Sal-Mon Patties one, and of course, more recipes than just biscuits-- jams, meats, pies, gravies-- the list goes on. Also, she gives step by step directions -- with pictures (!) -- for making biscuits. I don't know why, but I never thought of making biscuits on a tea towel, and I am so glad to know that--seems like it will make clean up easier... I hope!I love to cook and this is a fun book-- a pleasure to use and read!

Reviewer: Gigmaster
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful Book Some Great Ideas
Review: You wouldn't think there would be that many different ways to make biscuits, but this book will quickly show you how wrong you are. It is full of great, and innovative recipes, most of which can be customized to your taste. Ever thought of making broccoli biscuits? Or how about chocolate chip biscuits? If you are a biscuit-lover, this book will open a whole new world for you. And all the recipes are very easy to follow. You'll be cranking out world-class biscuits like a pro in no time at all. I can't recommend this book enough....

Reviewer: Sabrina
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Oh My Goodness!!
Review: Oh my goodness at the yummy recipes in this book!! I cannot wait to get cooking! They are easy, and there is so much variety too!! I also had chocolate gravey growing up and could not replicate my mother's recipe--this one is the very closest I have found--so YUMMY!!!! Thank you so much for creating this cookbook--you won't go wrong with this one!!!!! A true Southerner's dream come true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reviewer: Blue Rose
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Confusing book.
Review: This book includes history of biscuits and photos. Several biscuit recipes are included but some recipes use canned biscuits. A lot of photos but more about using biscuits than making biscuits. Recipies do not include metric measurements.There are mentions of keeping the faith, resurrection biscuits, praying for grace sprinkled through this book.

Reviewer: Michael Radhey
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The rap against this book is that the flour recommended is not available except regionally. In fact, it can be obtained right here on Amazon.cahttps://www.amazon.ca/White-Lily-Self-Rising-Flour/dp/B006E5E8O4/ref=sr_1_1?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1534625341&sr=1-1&keywords=self+rising+flour

Reviewer: Critic
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Sorry this book isn’t for me. I wanted a recipe book for biscuits, this book contains a homely history of the writer and her voyage into biscuit making, and the recipes and biscuits are North American (USA), based so even less useful for me over here in Europe.

Reviewer: Loup
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This is good recipes for making delicious Biscuits with different idea for taste !

Reviewer: Heather Johnson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great condition, interesting cookbook

Reviewer: Anthea
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Just ok not spectacular.