Sandy's Mississippi Delta Cathead Biscuits

Submitted by Teresa Johnson

"Source: Posted by Sandy H at www.delphi.com's Cook's Corner board"

 

• Ready In: 42mins
• Ingredients: 3
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 1⁄8 cups self-rising flour
• 2⁄3 cup milk or 2/3 cup buttermilk
• 1⁄8 cup oil or 1/8 cup bacon drippings

directions

1. Blend above ingredients in a mixing bowl.
2. Dump a hand full of flour on a pastry cloth or whatever.
3. A brown paper sack also works.
4. Newspaper also works just fine.
5. Dump the blended dough onto the flour.
6. Pour a dash of oil into your skillet and smear it around with your fingers.
7. Coat the inside of the skillet and the palms of your hands with oil.
8. Knead the dough for about 30 seconds, rolling it in the flour and thickening it.
9. Halve the dough.
10. Halve it again, making 4 pieces of dough.
11. Roll each piece of dough between your hands, making it into a ball, then put it in the skillet.
12. Use a spoon or a pastry brush and put a little oil or bacon drippings on the top of each unbaked biscuit.
13. Preheat oven to 350°.
14. Bake 25 minutes.
15. Broil/toast for 1 or 2 minutes.

Reviews

[Monajean]

Perfect!! Light and fluffy with great flavor!

 

[Mona1397]

This recipe is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!I made it this morning to go with sausage gravy,and we all ended up eating just the biscuits.The only thing I did different was to triple the recipe.And they turned out huge and fluffy with great flavor.Definately a recipe that will be used by my family over and over.