Post by admin on Aug 2, 2006 21:54:23 GMT -5
There may be a time when you have to use your frying pan on top of the stove to bake....Sure...here's how:
Essential Batter Mix
The initial Essential Batter Mix ingredients will vary little from pancakes to quick breads to pie crust. What will vary is the consistency of the batter and the additional ingredients (the ingredients that make it special). For example, pancake batter needs to be lumpless and pour easily; muffins and cakes need to be thicker but still pour if encouraged; and biscuit dough needs to be just that, dough (sticky, but you can form it into a ball and it stays there). These recipes will include some ideas about amounts of fluid needed, but the best plan is to add water slowly until the batter is the desired consistency.
B2's Essential Batter Mix
2 cups flour
1/3 to 1/2 Cup dry milk
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 Cup margarine or shortening
1/2 tsp. salt (optional)
Water
How Much Water?
For Pancake Batter:
About 2 cups. Batter should run off spoon easily.
For Cake Batter About 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups. Batter should walk off spoon quickly.
For Muffin/Quick Bread Batter:
About 1 1/4 to 1-1/2 cups. Batter should drop off spoon into pan, but not in a huge rush. This batter is about twice as thick as pancakes.
For Biscuit Batter:
About 1 cup. This batter is quite stiff but still sticky You have to push it off the spoon or press it into a pan. It will not go anywhere by itself.
Essential Pan Biscuits
2 cups Essential Batter Mix
3/4 cup water.
Helpful Hints: Mix wet with dry ingredients. Form into a ball. Knead lightly (about 30 seconds). Pinch off balls of dough and form into patties (1/2" thick) and fry in buttered frying pan a few minutes per side.
Style Points: Serve smothered in syrup or gravy.
Thanks to Ardath Drown Gray and Elsie Emmons Cummings who had the courage to teach a small girl how to make biscuits and let her practice."Cut the shortening with your hands. It's the only way they come out right."
Variations On The Theme
Buttermilk Biscuits: Make the Essential Batter with buttermilk powder and proceed as in Pan Biscuits.
Bacon Biscuits: Add 1/3 cup bacon bits to Essential Pan Biscuits and proceed as above.
Cheese And Garlic Biscuits: Add 1/2 cup grated cheese and 1/2 tsp. garlic powder to Essential Pan Biscuits.
Herb Biscuits: Add 1/2 tsp. dry mustard, 1/2 tsp. sage and 1 1/4 tsp. caraway seeds to Essential Pan Biscuits. Other herbs work well too.
Essential Batter Mix
The initial Essential Batter Mix ingredients will vary little from pancakes to quick breads to pie crust. What will vary is the consistency of the batter and the additional ingredients (the ingredients that make it special). For example, pancake batter needs to be lumpless and pour easily; muffins and cakes need to be thicker but still pour if encouraged; and biscuit dough needs to be just that, dough (sticky, but you can form it into a ball and it stays there). These recipes will include some ideas about amounts of fluid needed, but the best plan is to add water slowly until the batter is the desired consistency.
B2's Essential Batter Mix
2 cups flour
1/3 to 1/2 Cup dry milk
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 Cup margarine or shortening
1/2 tsp. salt (optional)
Water
How Much Water?
For Pancake Batter:
About 2 cups. Batter should run off spoon easily.
For Cake Batter About 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups. Batter should walk off spoon quickly.
For Muffin/Quick Bread Batter:
About 1 1/4 to 1-1/2 cups. Batter should drop off spoon into pan, but not in a huge rush. This batter is about twice as thick as pancakes.
For Biscuit Batter:
About 1 cup. This batter is quite stiff but still sticky You have to push it off the spoon or press it into a pan. It will not go anywhere by itself.
Essential Pan Biscuits
2 cups Essential Batter Mix
3/4 cup water.
Helpful Hints: Mix wet with dry ingredients. Form into a ball. Knead lightly (about 30 seconds). Pinch off balls of dough and form into patties (1/2" thick) and fry in buttered frying pan a few minutes per side.
Style Points: Serve smothered in syrup or gravy.
Thanks to Ardath Drown Gray and Elsie Emmons Cummings who had the courage to teach a small girl how to make biscuits and let her practice."Cut the shortening with your hands. It's the only way they come out right."
Variations On The Theme
Buttermilk Biscuits: Make the Essential Batter with buttermilk powder and proceed as in Pan Biscuits.
Bacon Biscuits: Add 1/3 cup bacon bits to Essential Pan Biscuits and proceed as above.
Cheese And Garlic Biscuits: Add 1/2 cup grated cheese and 1/2 tsp. garlic powder to Essential Pan Biscuits.
Herb Biscuits: Add 1/2 tsp. dry mustard, 1/2 tsp. sage and 1 1/4 tsp. caraway seeds to Essential Pan Biscuits. Other herbs work well too.