I was looking for a better recipe that would make my baking powder biscuits lighter and higher. I came across a recipe from a woman who tried and succeeded in replicating the biscuits her husband ate at his Grandma's table in rural Tennessee. Her secret: kitchen time.
A lot of the posts I read seem to be looking for that one secret that will help them, especially the newcomer to the art of bullet casting, unlock the secret to making the perfect bullet. Like making biscuits, I think one of the primary secrets is the caster's version of kitchen time. Let's call it casting time.
I've been casting for several years and still have a lot to learn. And I have learned a lot from my fellow casters on this site. I have found that there is no substitute for casting time. Time spent at my bench with my moulds, my alloy, my pot, in my shop. Picking up the cues from the mould, the alloy, the bullets that drop from the mould - all tell what I need to do on that given occasion to make the bullet I want.
Kitchen time - casting time. What do you think?
She wrote:
"My husband has a memory of his Southern grandmother who madebiscuits every day of her life. He remembers well the visits to the farmhousein East Tennessee, sleeping in a feather bed under six or eight quilts, wakingup to fluffy biscuits made on a wood burning stove, served with homemade pearhoney and apple butter. There is this myth that our Southern grandmother’s came out ofthe womb making biscuits and pie dough from scratch without a recipe and theyalways came out perfect. The truth is that they started very young, had instruction andlearned a little more every day. Baking fluffy biscuits or flaky pie doughbecame second nature just as walking and talking. During their childhood, theyweren’t stressed in the kitchen trying to reinvent the wheel. They were pickingup cues about flour, shortening and milk and how to balance them out, only theydidn’t know it at the time. It was simplykitchen timewith good smells and the excitement ofa hot biscuit with jam or honey only fifteen minutes away. So I did somekitchen timeto uncrack the mystery of the Southern Fluffy Biscuit. It’s not the recipe as much as it is the technique… " If you want the recipe, go to http://spinachtiger.com/my-best-homemade-fluffy-southern-biscuit-recipe-for-my-southern-husband/ I plan on making some tonight!
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