Hey Grandpa, What's for Supper? Part 2

[BReeder!]

Have you ever watched Brenda Gantt make biscuits? I did, and I leaned to do it too. I was a couple of days shy of my 70th birthday when I saw her video and tried her way for the first time. I’m embarrassed to admit that until that day, I’d never made a biscuit in my life. Didn’t grow up eating them because Dad hated biscuits so Ma never made them. Later on the only kind of biscuits I ever made were what Miss Brenda calls “whomp” biscuits….the kind in a can that you whomp against the counter to open. These take about the same amount of time than dinking around with the stupid cans, and taste a thousand times better!!

I taught Katie to make Miss Brenda’s biscuits. Katie is still big into learning to cook, and she’s reached the age where she often makes the whole meal at home. For her 15th birthday all she wanted was a biscuit bowl and her own cast iron biscuit skillet so she didn’t have to use her dad’s regular cast iron skillets. So I got her both, plus a flour sifter, an apron, a set of biscuit cutters, a can of Crisco and a bag of self-rising flour. We also threw in a butter churn because she and I often make our own butter. The first few times Katie tried to make the biscuits at home on her own, they tasted good but didn’t rise much. But typical of Katie, she kept at it. Then one day I got this text from her:

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I have not seen that but will look it up. I like a really flaky layered biscuit. I am fortunate sometimes to get them right and other times not so much. My consistancy in structure lacks, but they always taste good.

 

[Blooie]

Brenda Gantt is a sweet southern lady, a retired science teacher. who loves to cook. She had just lost her husband and remembered praying hard for guidance about what she could do without her beloved George by her side. Some kids from her local church wanted to know if she‘d teach them to cook, but then the pandemic hit and they couldn’t get together. So she was talked into making a video for them and putting it on Facebook. She figured out how to do it, even though she rarely used FB and only had about a dozen people as friends on her page. The next day her phone was ringing off the hook with people asking her if she‘d seen her cooking video….. it had gone viral with close to a million hits.

She’s become a sensation, starting with her first biscuit video (which I think is still her most charming one to date because she’s so nervous and scared in front of the phone camera) and now she‘s got thousands. She still uses her phone to video and sets it up in her kitchen on an oatmeal box, moving it around the kitchen as she moves. She laughs at her mistakes, is firm in “making do with whatcha got” and is an absolute delight. She’s appeared on Huckabee twice and was finally talked into doing a cookbook, which was tough for her because she never measures or times things. I’m hooked, and got my cookbook! She’s still just Brenda.

 

[BReeder!]

Brenda Gantt is a sweet southern lady, a retired science teacher. who loves to cook. She had just lost her husband and remembered praying hard for guidance about what she could do without her beloved George by her side. Some kids from her local church wanted to know if she‘d teach them to cook, but then the pandemic hit and they couldn’t get together. So she was talked into making a video for them and putting it on Facebook. She figured out how to do it, even though she rarely used FB and only had about a dozen people as friends on her page. The next day her phone was ringing off the hook with people asking her if she‘d seen her cooking video….. it had gone viral with close to a million hits.

She’s become a sensation, starting with her first biscuit video (which I think is still her most charming one to date because she’s so nervous and scared in front of the phone camera) and now she‘s got thousands. She still uses her phone to video and sets it up in her kitchen on an oatmeal box, moving it around the kitchen as she moves. She laughs at her mistakes, is firm in “making do with whatcha got” and is an absolute delight. She’s appeared on Huckabee twice and was finally talked into doing a cookbook, which was tough for her because she never measures or times things. I’m hooked, and got my cookbook! She’s still just Brenda.

I just watched her make biscuits. It's sort of like making pasta with the volcano of flour, just different ingredients and she did it in a bowl. I love the simplicity.

 

[Blooie]

And the flour in the bowl stays dry!! That’s what amazed me! I just slip the cover over the remaining flour and put it away until next time.

 

[BReeder!]

And the flour in the bowl stays dry!! That’s what amazed me! I just slip the cover over the remaining flour and put it away until next time.

Yep! With pasta I use extra flour for dusting the board I cut and shape dough on and between sheets of dough I stack after running them through the pasta roller. I use 2 eggs (or 1/2 cup water if for egg free dough), 1 tbsp olive and 1 tsp salt whisked together and dumped into the hole or "nest" in a volcano shaped mound of flour. I usually use semolina, but just did it with all purpose for and it work out well. I wasn't to try "00" flour, which I learned about from another BYC member.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I made baking powder biscuits tonight learned from Grandma .. Easy
2 c flour
1/3 c shortening(Crisco)
2 1/2 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp salt
Mix the flour and salt cut the shortening and butter in like for a pie crust once you have worked the butter and Crisco
add milk work that in .. These can be cut cooked in a tin or dropped we like them dropped.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We had tri tip steak pan fried, tator tots and green beans

 

[sourland]

We had a turkey dinner.

 

[BReeder!]

We had baked country ribs, roasted potatoes and broccoli

 

[pennyJo1960]

Making burger steak tonight with fries with peas as the veggie.