Generational Nostalgia Biscuits

[specialk]

My Ma made biscuits with flour from hopper mounted in a cabinet, had a sifter on the bottom. The cabinet came from the company store. That big blue biscuit bowl seemed to always have flour in it. Lard other makings were added in the bowl. She worked the biscuits by hand. Those biscuits remind me of those days long ago.

i got an old hoosier cabinet like the one in this pic that i had refinished, belonged to my late wifes family.....has the fully functioning sifter.....

 

[NCHillbilly]

My Ma made biscuits with flour from hopper mounted in a cabinet, had a sifter on the bottom. The cabinet came from the company store. That big blue biscuit bowl seemed to always have flour in it. Lard other makings were added in the bowl. She worked the biscuits by hand. Those biscuits remind me of those days long ago.

Grandma had the same kind of hopper that Grandpa built for her. It had a pull-out dough board over the bin.

 

[NCHillbilly]

i got an old hoosier cabinet like the one in this pic that i had refinished, belonged to my late wifes family.....has the fully functioning sifter.....



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That is cool.

 

[Hoss]

I do love a sausage biscuit. That one looks like it would be just the ticket.

 

[slow motion]

The treasures you find make the task at hand bearable. Will continue to pray for you brother in your time of grief.

 

[specialk]

Finally snapped some of mine....also got a old hand cranked churn...dont see many of these anymore either....

 

[specialk]

Pic

 

[NCHillbilly]

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Cool stuff!

 

[Spotlite]

I can relate. Went to my grandparents old home place recently. I could almost smell sausage and biscuits cooking.

Sometimes when I’m cooking it here I’ll go outside just to walk back up the steps to smell it like I did when I was a kid.

 

[DynamicDennis]

I could smoke about a 1/2 dozen of those. Or at least I would try..

 

[mrs. hornet22]

i got an old hoosier cabinet like the one in this pic that i had refinished, belonged to my late wifes family.....has the fully functioning sifter.....



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Mama had one exactly like that. Hers was red where the blue on yours is. It lives in my sister's house now.

 

[specialk]

Mama had one exactly like that. Hers was red where the blue on yours is. It lives in my sister's house now.

That was a stock photo....look at post 26 and 27....better pics....those pics are of mine....plus an old hand crank churn my father in law had as well...

 

[huntfish]

If you're going to post a picture of lip smacking biscuits, you need to post the recipe too.

 

[mrs. hornet22]

That was a stock photo....look at post 26 and 27....better pics....those pics are of mine....plus an old hand crank churn my father in law had as well...

Gotcha. So your is red too. Mama also had one of those hand crank churns. Hers was much smaller.

 

[gobbleinwoods]

Don't know how I missed this thread up until now.

Glad I just ate lunch or I'd be mixing up biscuits and frying some sausage and trying to hurt myself eating.

 

[NCHillbilly]

If you're going to post a picture of lip smacking biscuits, you need to post the recipe too.

Pour some self rising flour in a bowl. Dump a big glob of shortening in there and mix it up with your fingers until it's all crumbled up together. Dump some buttermilk in there, and stir it up. Dump it on a cutting board, mash it out flat about 1/2"-3/4" thick, cut the biscuits, put them on a greased pan, and bake them at about 425* until they're done. When you take them out of the oven, rub the tops with a stick of butter.

 

[gobbleinwoods]

Pour some self rising flour in a bowl. Dump a big glob of shortening in there and mix it up with your fingers until it's all crumbled up together. Dump some buttermilk in there, and stir it up. Dump it on a cutting board, mash it out flat about 1/2"-3/4" thick, cut the biscuits, put them on a greased pan, and bake them at about 425* until they're done. When you take them out of the oven, rub the tops with a stick of butter.

You stole my recipe.

 

[mrs. hornet22]

^^^ What he said.

 

[huntfish]

Pour some self rising flour in a bowl. Dump a big glob of shortening in there and mix it up with your fingers until it's all crumbled up together. Dump some buttermilk in there, and stir it up. Dump it on a cutting board, mash it out flat about 1/2"-3/4" thick, cut the biscuits, put them on a greased pan, and bake them at about 425* until they're done. When you take them out of the oven, rub the tops with a stick of butter.

Thank you!

 

[blood on the ground]

Very cool man!

I have my grandmother’s Dutch oven. It was her wedding gift when her and granddad married. My mom said she used it every day. I don’t remember either of them as they both passed away before I was a year old.