From: nancy-doo...@uiowa.edu (Nancy Dooley) Subject: Re: Snazzier than average biscuits Date: 1995/07/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 106387249 distribution: world references: <3ugadi$s4u@pipe3.nyc.pipeline.com> organization: University of Iowa newsgroups: rec.food.cooking In article <3ugadi$...@pipe3.nyc.pipeline.com> s...@nyc.pipeline.com (Sue M. Ford) writes: >From: s...@nyc.pipeline.com (Sue M. Ford) >Subject: Re: Snazzier than average biscuits >Date: 18 Jul 1995 08:45:38 -0400 >On Mon, 17 Jul 1995 in article , >'edr...@halcyon.com (Ed Rich)' wrote: > >>Anyway, get tube of biscuits (the kind that explode when you open them and > >>give you heart palpitations). > > >I just bought a couple of tubes of those things last weekend and had my >first experience with the "biscuit bazooka" aka "ballistic biscuits"! >Wow... it's a good thing they're only dough . > > Sue, have you ever heard Brett Butler's story about her sister-in-law (or some such relative): driving home from the grocery store with a bag of groceries in the seat behind her; it was unbelievably hot weather; she stopped at a convenience store to get a soda or something and started toward home again. All of a sudden she heard this really loud explosion and felt something hit her in the back of the head. She put her hand up (but not too close) and felt something mushy. She was convinced she had been shot and her brains were falling out! When she finally pulled into her driveway and started screaming/honking for someone to come out and help her, they discovered a can of biscuits in the grocery bag had exploded and hit her in the head. Ha ha ha. Perfect Baking Powder Biscuits Mix together: 2 C. sifted flour 3 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt Cut in with pastry cutter: 1/3 C. shortening Add and mix just until moist (still lumpy): about 3/4 to 1 C. milk or buttermilk (If using buttermilk, reduce b. powder to 2 tsp. and add 1/4 tsp. soda.) Roll and cut with biscuit cutter. Melt 2-3 T. of butter on a cookie sheet; dip tops of cut-out biscuits into melted butter once, then place on sheet with buttered top up. Bake at 450 deg. F. for 12 to 15 minutes. Nancy Dooley -- There is no love sincerer than the love of food. (George Bernard Shaw)