Is Making Biscuits From A Mix Any Easier Than Making From Scratch?
Posted by Allison Hemler, November 6, 2008 at 2:00 PM With all the intense preparation needed for Thanksgiving dinners, a baking mix or sauce mix here and there isn’t going to make or break the authenticity of your meal. The key is to use mixes that actually make life easier, rather than ones that complicate your free time. While I may not be preparing a whole meal for the holidays, the least I can do is bring a side dish, or perhaps, a bag of fresh buttermilk biscuits. So when Ed Levine handed me a pack of Organic Southern Buttermilk Biscuit Mix ($10.50 at Williams-Sonoma, at stores only) to try at home, I happily obliged and got to work. The tools necessary: the mix, a stick of unsalted butter, and a cup of milk. Easy enough, right? My verdict, and the final biscuits, after the jump. Of course, the dirty work still remains: cutting cold butter into the dry mixture, stirring in the milk, and and patting down the messy and somewhat sticky dough into a rectangle. I only had cookie cutte
With all the intense preparation needed for Thanksgiving dinners, a baking mix or sauce mix here and there isn’t going to make or break the authenticity of your meal. The key is to use mixes that actually make life easier, rather than ones that complicate your free time. While I may not be preparing a whole meal for the holidays, the least I can do is bring a side dish, or perhaps, a bag of fresh buttermilk biscuits. So when Ed Levine handed me a pack of Organic Southern Buttermilk Biscuit Mix ($10.50 at Williams-Sonoma, at stores only) to try at home, I happily obliged and got to work. The tools necessary: the mix, a stick of unsalted butter, and a cup of milk. Easy enough, right? My verdict, and the final biscuits, after the jump. Of course, the dirty work still remains: cutting cold butter into the dry mixture, stirring in the milk, and and patting down the messy and somewhat sticky dough into a rectangle. I only had cookie cutters in the shapes of a heart or a horse, so I used the
