- I don't know about you
but nothing says been in the South like biscuits.
And today I'm gonna show you how to make
a really easy drop biscuit with three ingredients.
And all these ingredients are coming
right outta North Carolina.
We're gonna start with
Southern biscuit self-rising flour,
which is made at Renwood Mills in Newton, North Carolina
which is just one county over in Catawba County.
'Cause we're in outdoor county.
We're gonna use some buttermilk
and butter and that's it.
Three ingredients.
So your first step is to put
two cups of self-rising flour in a bowl.
And then I like to freeze my stick of butter.
So, you're using one stick of butter
and half a cup of butter.
But I like to freeze it about 15 minutes
before I get ready to make my biscuits.
And, so I could shred it
and I love to shred the butter
so I can get buttery flakes in all parts of that biscuit.
So you can see all that good shredded butter in there.
I'm just gonna fold that flour over
and coat that butter.
And then we're gonna take our cup of buttermilk.
Now, you can use regular milk
but I like buttermilk for my biscuits.
So I'm just gonna pour it in
and I'm gonna mix those three ingredients together.
And really, you just,
the less you stir,
the softer these biscuits will be.
So, you just wanna incorporate
all three of those ingredients together
until it all looks wet.
If that one cup of buttermilk doesn't make it wet enough
you can pour a little bit more.
Maybe like a teaspoon at a time.
So I've got those about as wet
as I want them to be,
incorporated all that self-rising flour.
And then we're just gonna take two teaspoons
and drop 'em onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Now, whatever size you start dropping them at,
keep it pretty consistent.
So if you start with, you know,
maybe a teaspoon full,
you're gonna just put it on there
and keep 'em all about that same size
so they'll all bake at the same rate.
Now we're gonna put these in an oven
that's been preheated to 450 degrees
and I'm timing it 10 minutes.
Now everybody's oven is different
and everybody's biscuit preference is different.
Some like 'em light,
and some like 'em dark.
So check 'em at about 10 minutes
and then you could add more time
but 10 minutes is a safe bet
on how long to cook these at 450 degrees.
While my biscuits are baking
I'm going to turn my biscuit into a sweet treat.
So apples.
Another one of my favorite fruits
and we've got an apple orchard
just the next county over in Alexander County.
But how you can do this without any added sugar
is cut and co your apple,
leave the skin on for some extra fiber
and then put it in a glass bowl
or a microwave safe bowl
and heat it for about a minute.
But those apples mixed with that biscuit
is almost like eating a piece of apple pie.
And you can't get more American than that, right?
And, you can leave the apples just like that
or you can take a small bit of butter
and a little bit of cinnamon
to spice it up just a little bit.
We're gonna put these in the microwave.
So I ended up doing these apples
for about a minute and 30 seconds.
But the natural sugar that's in those apples,
kind of bakes out a little bit
when you put 'em in the microwave and it just,
you really don't need any of that added sugar.
So, you can kind of see
how good and tender those look.
So our biscuits are almost ready.
And these were baked for 10 minutes.
You see those nice brown edges that I love.
Especially on these drop biscuits.
You get all those little peaks on there.
And my favorite part is the bottom.
Look at that nice crispy brown bottom.
So again, 10 minutes for these.
And so there's your three ingredient drop biscuits.
And now, like I said, I did my apples.
I'm gonna take my one biscuit there,
and I'm going to break it up
and it's gonna be hot, obviously,
'cause I just took it out of the oven,
but I'm gonna break that up a little bit,
and then maybe just put a few apples off to the side.
You can make an apple biscuit
but I just like to kind of tear my biscuit up
and take a bite of my apple
and eat it just like that.
So, to talk about eating local,
we use local flour,
a local apple,
local buttermilk, and butter.
And we've got your homemade three ingredient biscuit
and that apple to make it a sweet treat.
So now, don't say you don't know how to make biscuits.
And this is one of the easiest recipes
that you probably will try.