Making Biscuits Rise and Shine!

Good Morning All! Hope you had a restful sleep and are ready to embrace yet another glorious day! Today I really don’t have a recipe to share. It’s more a technique thing.

Here in America we have all sorts of conveniences – boxed cake mixes that require a few fresh ingredients added, pancake mixes that only need water and biscuits from the freezer section that only need to be baked. While I adore biscuits made from scratch, most recipes don’t allow you to make only 2 or 3 biscuits. You might be able to cut some recipes down to only six scratch biscuits, but for just one person that’s way too many biscuits and way too much work.

The problem with frozen biscuits is that they don’t rise up nearly as much as scratch biscuits do. Part of the reason is the buddy system. When you’re baking a dozen or more biscuits in a single pan, they touch one another and they touch the edge of the pan. As the biscuits cook, they rise up, lifting one another – hence the buddy system. But when you are only baking a couple of biscuits, they lack that support. They’ll still rise, but not by much.

That’s when it struck me – create a smaller baking sheet that allows the biscuits to cling to one another and to the sides of the pan. It was one of those light bulb moments. Simply take a strip of foil, fold it over several times, and create a collar for the biscuits. Problem solved.

They rise up, and are perfect for that breakfast for one table I enjoy during the week when my guys are out earning a living. And there’s not nearly the mess to clean up after breakfast, either.

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Glory in his holy name;
rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord!