Biscuits

tin-bender, yes indeed, waffles and gravy. There is a church here in the Yuma, AZ.Foothills that has a breakfast buffet twice a month. Among many other things, they have biscuits and gray, and waffles. A number of years ago when about 12 of us started going, we went thru the line to the gravy. The lady that handles the gravy, biscuits and waffles, said "biscuits and gravy", a couple of us said "gravy on the waffles". She looked "really" "yes please" Well now about half of the gang gets waffles and gravy, and she always says "here comes my waffle and gravy guys". Now I will admit I do like biscuits too!

ppine wrote:
Dutch oven works, but works best with top heat, like coals from a fire on top.

Decent biscuits take plenty of fat and good flour like White Lily, only sold in the South. For camping I like the prepared ones that come in a tube.

x2 on this.

White Lily is the "go to" biscuit flour in north carolina. my 86 year old mother still uses White Lily and she is a champion biscuit maker. wife and i have both tried making biscuits with White Lily over the years but can never get them like hers. She never measures anything, uses the "feel" technique to get the dough just right.

Well as long as we are drifting away from biscuits, has anyone tried sausage gravy on waffles? That was one of our favorites on the ranch when I was a kid.
Tinbender

And dad would sometimes use toast instead of biscuits for SOS or sausage gravy.

Thanks so much. I'm going to try the suggestions and let everyone know how it turned out.

NMDriver2 wrote:
Put 1/2 inch of oil with some bacon grease in the skillet then fry the biscuit dough. You need to roll it out into thin rounds about the thickness of two tortillas. I use the canned dough because it is already in thin sections.

The dough will puff up and make great tasting biscuit hush puppies. Try those with the gravy and you will likely prefer them to regular biscuits.

Now that sounds good.

pbitschura wrote:
Not the question you asked, but to save time we substitute sourdough English muffins for baked biscuits when on the road. But a dutch oven will work well as an oven.

Now that's an idea. I hadn't thought about English muffins. Thanks

dons2346 wrote:
Do you have a toaster oven? That's the way we make biscut

We have a class B and no room on the counter for a toaster oven unfortunately.

Bird Freak wrote:

Roy&Lynne wrote:
So I have a question. Hubby loves Biscuits and Gravy but we don't have an oven. Can you fry biscuits in a cast iron skillet? I know you can buy them already made, but we really don't like them.

This may be a stupid question but I have to ask.
Do you have a convection microwave?

Unfortunately no

I have baked biscuits in an iron skillet on our gas range top a few times.
Grease or use PAM in the skillet.
Warm the skillet.
Open a can of biscuits, dust them with flour, place them in the skillet, touching each other.
Put a lid on them and bake/cook the bread...keep an eye on it and check the bottom of the biscuits using a wide spatula to just lift up enough to see the bottom.
When the bread is golden brown, use the spatula to "flip" the biscuits over....carefully :) put the lid back on and cook until the bottom is a nice color.
Take off the heat and let the bread sit a moment or two.