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We're not English, we're Baptists.
Biscuits, not cookies. Flour, shortening, butter, buttermilk, cat-head drop biscuit in a cast iron skillet with a thin coating of butter or bacon grease to keep them from sticking when you turn them out.
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We're not English, we're Baptists.
Biscuits, not cookies. Flour, shortening, butter, buttermilk, cat-head drop biscuit in a cast iron skillet with a thin coating of butter or bacon grease to keep them from sticking when you turn them out.
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Not a biscuit fan? A good biscuit is one of life's little pleasures. Making biscuits is just everyday cooking.
Now, cookies are different. I recognize three different kinds of cookies:
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Tea cakes. Southern cookie, usually very simple, and goes great with a cup of coffee. My grandmother's were the best anybody ever had, being almost the size of a small biscuit, but with a texture somewhere between a biscuit and a cookie. Made with whatever she had, I've ate them when they had hickory nuts in them, maybe fresh coconut, pecans or most any combination. I have her hand-written recipe. I cannot duplicate them.
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Cookie jar cookies. The kind of cookie that's an everyday staple in a family's cookie jar. Chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, snickerdoodles, etc. I can make a pretty decent cookie, usually peanut butter or cracked molasses.
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Fancy cookies. Decorated christmas cookies or cookies that take a lot of ingredients and/or are harder to make. Way out of my league, it's the kind of cookie Brenda would serve to her guests, to show off her baking skills and give them a taste treat.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Not a biscuit fan? A good biscuit is one of life's little pleasures. Making biscuits is just everyday cooking.
Now, cookies are different. I recognize three different kinds of cookies:
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Tea cakes. Southern cookie, usually very simple, and goes great with a cup of coffee. My grandmother's were the best anybody ever had, being almost the size of a small biscuit, but with a texture somewhere between a biscuit and a cookie. Made with whatever she had, I've ate them when they had hickory nuts in them, maybe fresh coconut, pecans or most any combination. I have her hand-written recipe. I cannot duplicate them.
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Cookie jar cookies. The kind of cookie that's an everyday staple in a family's cookie jar. Chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, snickerdoodles, etc. I can make a pretty decent cookie, usually peanut butter or cracked molasses.
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Fancy cookies. Decorated christmas cookies or cookies that take a lot of ingredients and/or are harder to make. Way out of my league, it's the kind of cookie Brenda would serve to her guests, to show off her baking skills and give them a taste treat.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@Catseye3 said in Ok, boys & girls...:
@Jolly said in Ok, boys & girls...:
Tea cakes.
These sound like scones.
Ayup, I was about to post the same comment. Love a good scone, as does hubby. He sometimes reminds me that the scone pan is clean and ready.
I don't make fussy fancy cookies. Mine are the cookie jar variety made as big batches in the Hobart. Now that there's just the two of us, I don't make them as often. It's probably time for another batch of some.
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@Catseye3 said in Ok, boys & girls...:
@Jolly said in Ok, boys & girls...:
Tea cakes.
These sound like scones.
Probably in the neighborhood, but not quite.
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A couple of fat cat head biscuits, some real butter, and some Smuckers grape jelly with coffee...... yum..
Beats a cookie any day...
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A couple of fat cat head biscuits, some real butter, and some Smuckers grape jelly with coffee...... yum..
Beats a cookie any day...
@Larry said in Ok, boys & girls...:
A couple of fat cat head biscuits, some real butter, and some Smuckers grape jelly with coffee...... yum..
Beats a cookie any day...
Well, substitute some mayhaw (the king of jellies) for the grape and I'd agree with you.
Although fresh strawberry jam or wild muscadine jelly is awful good, too.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Not a biscuit fan? A good biscuit is one of life's little pleasures. Making biscuits is just everyday cooking.
Now, cookies are different. I recognize three different kinds of cookies:
-
Tea cakes. Southern cookie, usually very simple, and goes great with a cup of coffee. My grandmother's were the best anybody ever had, being almost the size of a small biscuit, but with a texture somewhere between a biscuit and a cookie. Made with whatever she had, I've ate them when they had hickory nuts in them, maybe fresh coconut, pecans or most any combination. I have her hand-written recipe. I cannot duplicate them.
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Cookie jar cookies. The kind of cookie that's an everyday staple in a family's cookie jar. Chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, snickerdoodles, etc. I can make a pretty decent cookie, usually peanut butter or cracked molasses.
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Fancy cookies. Decorated christmas cookies or cookies that take a lot of ingredients and/or are harder to make. Way out of my league, it's the kind of cookie Brenda would serve to her guests, to show off her baking skills and give them a taste treat.
@Jolly said in Ok, boys & girls...:
Not a biscuit fan?
Love 'em; can't cook 'em! I've never baked a successful biscuit in my life. Tried many times. Redd all about not overhandling the dough, etc, the whole nine yards. Nothing works. Hockey pucks.
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@Larry said in Ok, boys & girls...:
A couple of fat cat head biscuits, some real butter, and some Smuckers grape jelly with coffee...... yum..
Beats a cookie any day...
Well, substitute some mayhaw (the king of jellies) for the grape and I'd agree with you.
Although fresh strawberry jam or wild muscadine jelly is awful good, too.
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@Jolly said in Ok, boys & girls...:
mayhaw (the king of jellies)
Do y'all pick your own? Make the jelly?
@Catseye3 said in Ok, boys & girls...:
@Jolly said in Ok, boys & girls...:
mayhaw (the king of jellies)
Do y'all pick your own? Make the jelly?
@Catseye3 said in Ok, boys & girls...:
@Jolly said in Ok, boys & girls...:
mayhaw (the king of jellies)
Do y'all pick your own? Make the jelly?
Of course. Mayhaw is the best jelly. It's a bit like plum, but has more snap.
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I'm going to bake at least four dozen biscuits in the morning and bring them to a breakfast at church. They'll go into a warmer until we eat.
I'll be using disposable aluminum pans to carry them in, probably the half-size ones.
Anything special I need to do?
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A couple of fat cat head biscuits, some real butter, and some Smuckers grape jelly with coffee...... yum..
Beats a cookie any day...
@Larry said in Ok, boys & girls...:
A couple of fat cat head biscuits, some real butter, and some Smuckers grape jelly with coffee...... yum..
Beats a cookie any day...
Yes! That's a good breakfast or snack. Cookies are in a completely different category, IMHO.
