Recipes

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If you like biscuits to rise up, place them close together in the pan. If you place them far apart they will spread out and not rise so much.

Home Made Biscuits

By James Carroll

Ingredients

1.       2 cups All purpose flour + a little to flour the work surface

2.       1 teaspoon sea salt

3.       ¼ teaspoon baking soda

4.       1 tablespoon baking powder

5.       1 tablespoon olive oil (running over)

6.       Crisco

Preparation

·         Grease a 10 inch cast iron skillet with Crisco shortening.

·         Set oven temperature to 475 degrees.

·         Install your dough hook on the stand mixer.

·         Place the ingredients 1 through 5 into the mixing bowl.

·         Mix on medium high until the dough balls up

Empty your dough out onto your floured surface and kneed for about seven or eight times. Shape into a log 8 inches long. Pinch off 1 inch of the dough and roll it with your hands into a ball and place into the skillet, then repeat seven more times. Pat the dough down so that all the edges are touching. Place the skillet into the oven for about 12 minutes or until the biscuits are golden brown.

While the biscuits are cooking is a good time to clean up the mess, because when the biscuits get done you will want to dig in while they are hot.

Buttermilk

If you want to make your own buttermilk as I do, you will need to purchase your first Cultured Buttermilk to get started. After your first batch, save back one cup of the buttermilk you made to start your next batch.

Mix 1 cup Cultured Buttermilk with a half gallon sweet milk, shake well and store in a warn place for 24 hours. I use the top of my electric water heater but I would not use a gas water heater as that would be too hot. That stuff is good to drink too! It is good for your stomach.

Pan Pizza

By James Carroll

Recipe... I make the crust in a Hamilton Beach Bread Machine. Set cycle to # 8, then add ingreedients.One cup of water

one teaspoon salt

one tablespoon butter or cooking oil

three cups of all purpose flour

two teaspoons yeast. I use rapid rise. Press the start button and when the machine stops for the first time the dough is ready to move to a floured surface. Turn off the bread machine. Work the dough into a ball and cut it in half for two pizzas. Let the two doughs rest on the floured surface for about ten minutes. Use that time to preheat your oven to 475 degrees and chop your ingreedients.

You can get 8x8x1and5/8 no stick pans at Walmarts. Now...Roll out your dough into a square about 10 x 10 inches...Place it into the pan and you will have an overhang, roll the extra dough up and stuff it into the pan all around the edges. Now...spread your sauce onto the dough, I use Ragu. Then add one layer of shreaded cheese, a layer of chopped onion, I prefer Vidalia. Add a layer of Bell pepper and a layer of chopped mushrooms, drained and a layer on sliced olives, drained. Then add a layer of  Pepperoni. Now add a layer of Pepper Jack Cheese. When you have both pizzas ready, pop them into the oven and bake for about 12 to 14 minutes or until they are done.

You now have a pizza that is comparable to The Chicago Pan Pizza. Delicious!

Cornbread

Crisco shortening enough to grease the bottom of 10 inch iron skillet.

mix 2 cups of self rising corn meal with 1/2 cup self rising flour and 1/2 cup Buttermilk, add enough water to make a thick paste.

Pour into skillet and bake for about 25 minutes at 475 degrees, or until golden brown.

 Hot Dogs

By James Carroll

I went to Mechanicsville Jr High School, not far from Anniston, Alabama and just across the street from the school there was a small neighborhood store. The ladies who operated the store lived next to the store so it was convenient for them to make hot dogs at home and bring them to the store to sell. At lunch time we would occasionally go to the store for hot dogs. They had the hot dogs piled high right next to the cash register for 10 cents each. For 25 cents we could get two hot dogs and a 12 ounce RC Cola. More than sixty years have gone by but I still remember how good the hot dogs were. My wife and I have started to make our hot dogs as soon as we buy the buns to keep the bread from drying out. This is a good way to save money as you don't have to throw away part of the bread for getting stale. We make them all at once and stack them in the vegetable crisper, then we microwave them as needed. We make our hot dogs kind of up side down. You put the ingredients into the bun first then put the hot dog on top; that way you can eat them with your suit on if you want and still you won't spill it on your clothes.