Walla Walla Onion Biscuits

Submitted by Outta Here

"This is from an old booklet put out by the Walla Walla Gardeners Association. Walla Walla is in SW Washington state, where the sweetest onions outside of Vidalia, GA are grown! (how's that for diplomacy!) Any "sweet" onion will do if you can't get Walla Wallas or Vidalias."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 18 biscuits

ingredients

• 473.18 ml flour
• 4.92 ml sugar
• 17.25 ml baking powder
• 4.92 ml salt
• 22.18 ml shortening
• 73.94 ml butter
• 3 medium walla walla onions, peeled and chopped
• 118.29 ml evaporated milk

directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Grease a cookie sheet with shortening or non-stick spray.
3. Mix dry ingredients together; cut in shortening.
4. Saute onions in butter until translucent. Add to flour mixture with milk. Mix until blended. Form dough into ball.
5. Roll out on floured surface about 1/2 inch thick. Cut with biscuit cutter or knife and place on cookie sheet.
6. Bake 15 minutes.

Reviews

[twissis]

Made for your Football Pool win, these biscuits are great & the recipe clearly 1 of the most forgiving & twissis-proof recipes on this site. I thot I was making them as written, but saw too late that I hadn't sauteed the onion. I had added them raw to the dough, but they were very finely chopped & still cooked tender in the finished biscuits. Using my pastry brush, I applied a very light coat of butter to the tops & was good-to-go. My yield was 22 2-in biscuits & the crumb was soft & tender - not at all dry or chewy like a lot of baking powder biscuits often are. Thx for sharing this recipe w/us & Congrats on you FP win.

 

[Sydney Mike]

Almost ignored this 'cause at first I just saw the onion biscuits part, but then Walla Walla hit me & of course I had to make them (with the Vidalias, but then. . .)! VERY EASY TO MAKE & GREAT TASTING, TOO: What more could you want! Definitely a keeper, & thanks for posting it! [Tagged, made & reviewed in Went to the Market]

 

[diner524]

Wow!! Talk about flavorful biscuits!!! I cut the recipe to make 4.5 biscuits for the 2 of us. The batter is mainly onions, so you get onions in every bite. It won't be a family favorite, as I am the onion lover here!!! Thanks for sharing Mikekey!!! Made for Gimme 5 Tag.

 

[Nif_H]

OK, I'm following a theme here! I couldn't find Walla Walla OR Vidaliz onions, so I instead used a Jumbo Sweet onion. It was huge so I took some out of the pan for the other thing I was cooking. Nice, easy and my kids even liked them (I covered my one son's with the ground beef concoction I came up with so he wouldn't see the onions) ;) ! Tagged for PRMR. Thanks!

 

[*OzMan*]

Mikekey, like others I was unable to get Walla Walla onions, so Vidalia it was and they could not have been better! I did cut back a tad on the sugar, but I really enjoyed these bisquits!! I will make these again soon, and ya done good! :) Thanks!