Had The Biscuit?

For the make-bread-in-desperation folk out there, how about doing biscuits for a change? I use a boxed mix, but you can make your own mix way too easily. Get a big bowl, toss in 8 cups of flour, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup baking powder and almost 2 tablespoons of salt. Mix it all up and store in a sealed container. That's it. When you have an urge for something hot from the oven along with a pat of butter and jam, find that sealed container and take from it a couple of cups, add about a quarter cup of oil or melted butter and enough milk to form a dough. Flatten to one inch, cut into rounds or squares and bake at 400 degrees F until the tops are light golden. You can be fancy and drop into the batter, a little measure of chopped raisins or apples or cheese. If you cut the plain ones in half and serve the rounds as a tea goodie with a slather of cream cheese topped with a prawn and sea sauce, fresh fruit and ham, sliced beef and sweet onion, cucumber and salmon butter you'll be loved. Think up your own combinations. Speaking of butter, it's a natural product that even keto freakos can eat. Make a bunch of butters to entertain yourself. Let the butter soften standing out on the counter. I keep mine out always but covered so that it is ready at any moment and for recipes. I gave up hard butter years ago and do what Europeans do, leaving it on a marble slab covered with a glass dome. In the summer you have to watch that it doesn't go odd in the heat. Either put out only a small quantity or use it up soon or, if you must, keep it in the fridge. Make your butters any way your taste dictates and they're always ready to put on those biscuits that you love to snack on. Butters I like are garlic, sardine and lemon, bacon and green onion, herb, spinach and feta cheese, fruit butters of all kinds. Use the fresh fruit butters soon but using fruit jams, jellies and marmalades makes the product easier and last longer. Mixed butters need to be kept in the fridge, not on the counter as your regular pure butter brick. Biscuits make a nice change from bread. Some like biscuits with gravies but you can open a biscuit on a plate and drizzle on any sort of creamed or sauced food such as peas, stews, fish or meats. Try making ice-cream filled biscuits with choices of added banana, chocolate chips, peanut butter or marshmallow. Let the kids loose on this one and see what they can create as  a sweet treat. Or, see the biscuit as a mini sloppy burger with  savory cooked ground beef loaded with chopped peppers, onions and celery. Adding a crisp lettuce leaf or sprouts, makes it even more a super healthy lunch or dinner. Your biscuit mix is there for the kids to stir up and make their own biscuit men, dinosaurs or bunnies or whatever shape they wish to mould. An adult must be present for baking because biscuits are better done in very hot ovens. If you've had the biscuit with staying in, biscuits might help.