Simple Southern Biscuits | Scratch Cooking Recipes
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- Опубліковано 2 лис 2023
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This feels like a secret club right now, like "Fight Club" where the number one rule is we don't talk about Fight Club! So stinkin excited for you Jess!!!!
Yes!!! Was just thinking this!!
Yes 😂
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Yesss! 😂
Yes!!! Lol😅
I think it is funny that I am 70 years old and have been making southern biscuits for 35 years and I am sitting here watching you make biscuits. Lol
I'm 77 from Kentucky and I'm watching...lol... Good job Jess
I’ve been making biscuits for over 55 years here in East Tennessee’s I use 2 cups white lily flour a fourth cup of lard and buttermilk mix with my hands and roll them out cut them and put them in my iron skillet on 450 degrees for 12-14 minutes. They are light and fluffy with a little crunchy on the bottom. I love biscuits and gravy 😊
There is no one living in my family to teach me this skill. I tried Jess's way and the biscuits were so tender and rose so high - but tasted too flour-y. I thought maybe I under baked but on the second try I over-browned them with the same result. What am I doing wrong? (Still wonderful slathered in butter and something sweet)
A space dedicated to being in the kitchen with Jess?! I AM SO HAPPY!!! The ripple effect you have had with inviting us into your space is.... unfathomable. Thank you.
Love this ! Tip for anyone with out food processor ... Freeze the stick of butter and then grate it with a cheese grater ... Perfect pieces 💙
Ohhhhhhh!
That's what my granny did
Works great even out of the refrigerator; I do it all the time.
Works great when making scones too!
I do that too but hate cleaning the grater afterwards. A good HOT soak helps but still...
I love that the first video is a biscuit recipe. Speaks right to this southern gals heart.
"We measure salt with our heart in this house".... I love that!! And I was so glad to see the printable PDF, thank you for that! That goes along with one of your videos on the other channel, encouraging us to print out our favorites and not always rely on the internet. Looking forward to more "cooking with Jess"!
People need this new channel Jess… be encouraged, it will grow just as your garden channel has! Well done 😊
There was a different channel that had changed over the years. I had to stop watching. It was hard because I really enjoyed the recipes and chat... homestead chats. I am thankful you have come forward, Jess. Your words always preach coming together out of the rain and finding community and communion. I am excited for your new channel. I look forward to hearing your take on old recipes. I like that you help the viewer not fret when there's an ingredient missing. This separates the pros from the amateurs! Take care, Jess! God Bless!
What? A cooking channel from Jess? I hit the subscribe button so fast my fingers were a blur! I've been making biscuits for too many years to admit to, but I still learned a little thing or two, so thank you for that. I normally freeze my stick of butter and then grate it before I mix it into the flour to try to prevent warming it up too much when I mix the dough, which seems to work well for me. I love the folding you demonstrated, and will be trying that the next time I make biscuits!
Same!!😊
Same, didn't even think twice..
I am so excited to see Jess doing a cooking channel. You go girl!!!
Me too😊😅
That’s a great tip thanks!
I have cooked biscuits for over 20 years and no one ever explained the benefit of using a pan with sides on it. That makes so much sense!! Lol I am switching from my flat baking sheet 👍😃
I've always used Pie plates or cake pan.
It makes me feel so much better knowing even Jess Sowards doesn’t always keep buttermilk on hand and uses the buttermilk “cheat” substitute that I use. Makes me want to go make some biscuits. Yours look amazing.
I bet she gets less buttermilk than butter when she makes butter. That's what happens to me and it seems like a good thing and maybe it is, but there's never enough buttermilk! 😅 we use a half gallon of cream and get 2lbs of butter but only a scant pint of buttermilk.
I use this cheat all the time! It’s nice to see her doing it too;)
Yes. And when you do come across buttermilk, you can always freeze the leftovers in whatever portion size you'll likely use it. It freezes really well.
This is going to be soooo much fun!! I love kitchen/cooking/baking channels … and with sweet peeps like Jess - yes please! 💚
Exactly how I make mine! So good! For years my husband kept asking me if I could make flaky biscuits and I finally watched a video that showed the folding technique. THAT IS THE KEY! After 35 years of marriage, my husband got home made flaky biscuits since I refused to buy the canned ones. Thanks Jess!
It took me 30 years to learn how to make good biscuits but i have finally mastered it! One of my most proud moments! Shred your butter with a cheese shredder! Game changer!
So excited about this channel. You quickly became a mentor and “bestie” for this newbie homesteader. Thank you
Hooray! I'm so excited for Real Food to be more accessible to every human being of this planet. Once you know you know!! Go Jess!
I keep butter in the freezer and just grate it into my dough. Just a tip from a Southerner 😉
Nice! Thanks!
My husband is going to love that I'm watching this channel. My waiting room has taken over the kitchen. -Fluffy Bloomers
Gotta love a dedicated kitchen channel with Jess! Yay! 🎉🎉
Thank you for letting us spend time with you in your kitchen! This is so special, congratulations Jess ❤
I bet a lot of people didn’t even notice this video , I found it while searching ur others. Such a great idea Jess I’m so excited to learn this stuff from you. I was immediately addicted to your garden videos years ago. I’ve always been amazed how much I learn from you in the garden even though I’ve gardened a few years longer than you. I’m positive I’ll learn even more in the kitchen! Thank u thank u thank u!
I wish I had a journal or something that I could write down all of my favorite recipes you’re going to share 😂 😉
😂😂👏👏🔥🔥
Dollar Tree notebook would hold them until you find something you like more permanent...🌻💕
@@marking-time-gardens thanks! I actually designed one and sell it on Amazon, I had Jess write a couple of recipes in it so when I sell 100 I’m going to do a giveaway for that journal. I was being silly
@@WillowBrookHomestead I don't think that is being silly! Great thinking ahead! I pray that you do well with the journals. Blessings on your day Kiddo!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 💕
@WillowBrookHomestead
Have a link for that journal?
Love the opening of the new channel. Thanks so much for making this recipe hands on traditional, down to earth, real. Not all of us have or want to have "all the things" that seem to be so expected in today's recipes.
I love biscuits! It’s one of my favorite things my Mama used to make. I know a lot of people use butter but she always used Crisco. Sometimes she likes to open the biscuit and add butter and a teaspoon of brown sugar and let it melt. Her biscuits and gravy were to die for. Thanks for unlocking a core memory! ❤️ Congratulations on the new channel Jess!
Totally going to have to try the brown sugar with butter, that sounds heavenly
I dont know HOW this came up in my feed but im grateful it did. Kitchen time with Jess? Yes please!
Cooking is an art and not everyone is gifted with it but everyone has the potential to learn it. I like your style and big thumb 👍751
Here’s the Appalachian biscuit recipe! Start by preheating oven and cast iron skillet with fat to 425. Use Hudson Creme Self Rising flour, 2 cups, 3/4 cup of cold milk-not buttermilk. 1/3 cup of fat-lard, oil, shortening or melted butter that’s not hot. Mix together and then turn onto floured surface. Fold over no more than 5 times, then pat out to desired thickness, cut out biscuits. Remove hot pan from oven then coat the top of your biscuit with the hot oil in the pan, should hear a slight sizzle, then squeeze then in close for a good rise. Bake for 15 minutes, check for browning. If more browning on top is needed, bake a couple of more minutes. Remove from oven and turn out onto a plate and serve.
Thank you!
That folding technique was exactly what I have been missing! Thank you!
I lived with a family for several months in Virginia. The mom made some wonderful biscuits for breakfast at least 3 days a week. I just made some with white whole wheat flour, but am ready to get the unbleached all-purpose flour :) I'm going to try your recipe as well. They are delicious and there's nothing like them anywhere except the south :)
Love that you’re making a dedicated scratch cooking channel! I’ve tried biscuits a few times but never had much luck.
So pleased to see this new channel Jess, thank you for all your inspiring content! Please share some of your favourite gluten-free recipes when you're able to :)
I was just going thru the comments to see if anyone else was asking about gluten free! I'd Loooove a good gluten free biscuit ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I miss them so bad
@@abigailkerr3354 I totally agree! Would love a GF biscuit recipe!!
I consider being able to make a biscuit a necessary life skill and I'm not even from the south! I love that this was your first recipe on this channel. So simple and such a staple. I cut mine into squares - no waste and I can tailor the size easily. Sometimes mini biscuits are fun! 🎉
I use the my bench scraper to cut the biscuits into squares (no waste also) they can still tuck into my cast iron skillet
I cannot wait to make my own biscuits! It feels foolproof. I can’t believe I’ve been buying the ones from the store this whole time. Thank you for sharing! 💚
Is anybody else like wicked impressed with Jess’s one-arm-lift-and-pour of that glass gallon jar of milk?!? 🤣🤣 dang girl!
I am SO excited for this channel! Love from Wisconsin! ❤️❤️❤️
YES I was! Homestead Flex 😂
So is there a cookbook out there with farm/homestead recipes? If not I feel like that NEEDS to be jess's next book. I want all the basics. Gravies. Biscuits. Bread. Simple. Pantry ingredients. Alternative/substitute ingredients. I don't make gravy a whole lot. I don't ever remember how. A one stop book to look at for those simple recipes that utilize what we grow and have would be amazing.
YESSSSSSSSS!
How did I miss this? Cooking lessons from Jess? Yes, please!
Yes, yes, yes! Thank you Jess! We all love your dearly and cannot wait for more cooking videos ❤
Oh my goodness! I love cooking from scratch! This is so fun!!!! 😄
This is exciting!! So proud of all your new ventures Jess and very much looking forward to cooking with you through the winter 😊💗😊🍳
WOW - a cooking channel with Jess. When I first got married and we visited my grandparents in TN, they made buttermilk biscuits everyday. My ex ask my grandmother to teach me how. I love making biscuits. My mom could not make them from scratch. A favorite is biscuits and coffee - was my dad's favorite. I don't make buttermilk ones because I cannot use it up. I have to remember this trick.
Do you put coffee in the biscuits?
@@sjwestmo no we pour coffee over the biscuit.
I’m so excited that this would be the first farmers recipe! I have been making sourdough bread, canning like crazy, making tomato sauce, you name it… But I cannot make a decent biscuit to save my life for some reason. I can’t wait to try it.❤
Good to see you in the Kitchen Jess. Homemade biscuits and gravy are my absolute favorite. Southern food, you gotta love it. Thanks for sharing Jess.❤✝️
Thank you for showing how simple this can be! Anyone can do this!! 💜
Wow, yesterday I was thinking I should learn how to make my own biscuits and here we are!!! ❤️
My grandmother made the best biscuits and never measured any ingredients. She had the touch and shaped them by hand. Perfect fluffy biscuits. When I tried to imitate her, mine could have been hockey pucks!!😊
I love biscuits. I remember going to my great grandparents homestead and my mother, grandmother and great grandmother going to her garden and picking fresh tomatoes and large green onions
and coming back in to her dining room where the big kitchen cabinet with wire over the front shelves and she would open the door and pull out leftover biscuits from breakfast which we called cathead biscuits because they were so big and fantastic tasting. Then we would slice the tomatoes and onion and put it in the biscuits and talk and laugh and have such a great time. I was so lucky that my great great grandmother lived to 103 and my great grandparents lived to be 102 and my grandmother was 99 when she passed so I have memories of all of them and as I as now 70 I treasure them so.
My dad made incredible biscuits, and other baked goods. He NEVER used a recipe.
His first visit after I married and moved away, I tried to impress him with homemade biscuits, thinking I could make them from memory. They were beautiful, inedible "hockey pucks".
He was a good sport, but he passed on those. He bought me my first Fanny Farmer cookbook.
I discovered the "secret" to his level of expertise is making things again and again until the basics are second nature. Then you can tweak and improve and experiment.
The visual element of seeing the process in a video would have been very helpful 50 years ago.
Just like gardening, things may not turn out exactly the way you want every single time, but if you keep at it, you will have better and better results. People don't need 'perfection' when they are missing the basics. You are authentic, and we appreciate it.
I hadn't watched many of your cooking videos because I've been cooking for almost 60 years, (and prefer focaccia to biscuits), but I just subscribed and I imagine I can learn a few things from you. Glad you made a separate channel.
I was so excited to open Facebook and see the post about this! Instantly started watching! Love love love your gardening content so I know I’m only gonna love the cooking content even more! Your kitchen is so welcoming, inviting and comforting and now we get more time in it🥰
This has made me very happy. I’ve been wanting more kitchen time with you!
The frost tender flower in her winter environment ❤ thanks for feeding my mind and soul, also for inspiration to cook with the ingredients I've work for this past season. Food is a love language of mine and I love feeding those around me. Ty 💞🥰
Thanks, Jess for sharing this cooking channel with us. Farm to table cooking is near and dear to my heart.
“We measure salt with our heart in this house”- best quote ever! ❤
YES! I am so glad you decided to do more cooking. I like to watch someone cook who is not trying to show off and do fancy things. I eat southern and you cook like I like.
So excited 😊 I love learning how to make healthy home-cooked meals for my family and getting back to traditional ways of doing things. Thank you always Jess. God bless you in this new adventure.
Oh my gosh!!! I'm so glad I came across this in my suggested videos - I love kitchen videos with Jess 😍
I just stumbled across this page and cannot be more excited! 🎉 Love your inspiration and it will be nice to see the other side of the farm, cooking all the delightful things you all work so hard to grow
I actually appreciate the whole “meh I made them a little thinner than I should have but they still taste good” part. Shows people that even amazing cooks aren’t 100% perfect to “Food Network standards”. They do look absolutely perfect! Can’t wait to try making them!
"I'm only here for the food!" lol I so wanted to say this, one of my favorite movie quotes as I'm clicking "subscribe" on your new channel!!🎉 Honestly, though, I'm here for the Jess, too! I just love everything you do, and I could watch your videos all day long. Congrats on your new channel! What better way to start than with good old southern tradition! I love this video and am so excited for what's to come!
PS: I never can keep buttermilk for the same reason, so I use that trick, too! All the time! I'm so glad you shared!
Congratulations on your “new” channel! I’m much older than you and I’ve been a “scratch” cook
all of my life but I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to know you’re here. Many people my age can’t,
don’t or will not cook. As a result many 30 year old people (and younger) are trapped in a spiral of poor health choices.
I will certainly spread the word about this channel…we have a country to feed and to teach to stand on their own two feet.
God bless you gal…you’re “my kind of people.”
♥️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"We measure salt with our heart in this house" ❤😂
Loving this new channel Jess! ❤
In the UK we call these biscuits scones, traditionally eaten with strawberry jam (jelly?) and clotted cream! In Devon they put the cream on first and then jam, in Cornwall it's jam first and then cream! Delicious with a cup of earl grey tea 🤤❤ xx
We call them scones in New Zealand also :)🌸
I usually do baking soda biscuits but these look amazing. Going to try them this weekend. Excited for this channel for inspiration for all kinds of things. Thanks Jess!
Thank you my friend for your offerings. God can use something as simple as a biscuit making video to bless people!
This video comforted my heart and reminded me that I don’t have to be perfect and things don’t have to be ideal for me to be able to light up the darkness. God is crazy cool like that!!!
I’m so excited about this!!! I love all things gardening and homestead too but I’ve been really trying to learn to cook. Having recipes and “quality content I can trust” is AMAZING! Thank you for doing this!!!!
When my hubby makes biscuits, he always has the last one larger than the rest using the leftover bits. He calls that the "cathead biscuit" (because of its size) and traditionally for his family, that would go to the man of the house. I don't think he does this foldover method, but I will try it the next time I make biscuits. I love the idea of using a canning ring to cut them, too! Thanks, Jess, for creating this channel to bring us into the kitchen with you! Love it!
Back many years ago I cooked breakfast in a BBQ restaurant and I made every biscuit a "cathead" biscuit! So good, start with the dough at least 1/2" and never twist the cutter because that seals the edge and doesn't allow the biscuit to raise right!
Woke up to do wife things in the kitchen, opened youtube, and surprise to me: Jess and a channel specifically to her in the kitchen ❤
🌞 What a great way to start the morning
Edit: I couldn’t get the link to work but no biggie, Can write it down.
Hey Jess - I manage similar heath issues - and found it super helpful (to keep my hands from breaking out) not to handle wheat flour - it is hard b/c so much information in cooking comes from feel/touch - however keeping my hand healthy has been a game changer
Jess, I watched this video went straight to my kitchen (because it was dinner time and my family was gone for the evening at an outreach event) and o made these biscuits. O M G! I have made many a from scratch biscuit but these surpass them all by far!!
I loved them so much!! ❤🔥🔥
I winded up making some sausage patty’s and wrapped them as individual breakfast sandwich for all my boys the next morning. 😊
Congratulations to you Jess and congratulations to all of us! 🎉 I’ve watched your Roots and Refuge channel over the years and our interests are similar, so I’ve often thought because Jess is so passionate about gardening and growing food for her family I hope she does more cooking content so to my delight I’ve just subscribed to The Farmers Table! Thank you Jess,”and I bless you until next time”!❤
I've never, at age 53, made an edible biscuit. 😢. I followed your video this morning and now I'm sitting here eating yummy biscuits.
Thank you😊
Thank you for making it feel so simple. Sometimes things like making biscuits feel so dramatic, but it really isn't. I haven't made them in cast iron so I'll definitely try that.
My Daughter has been watching you for years. Jess you helped her through being paralyzed from an epidural during her second childbirth-she was so hurt! You gave her healing through your journey of pain. You are literally a life saver to my Daughter who is has just turned 28 this month. She not only is a wonderful Mom who can garden but she also uses the herbs in garden that really do work to heal . Thank You for sharing with us.👍
Love the cast iron recipes. Thank you again for sharing🙂
I love that you’re doing this channel, Jess!
I’m originally southern also - Baton Rouge and make buttermilk biscuits, cornbread, etc. My family always put baking soda as well as baking powder in any recipe calling for buttermilk. I’m wondering if that makes any difference now that I see you don’t. Guess I’ll have to make another batch of baking sodaless biscuits and see for myself 😂
I’ve not seen many buttermilk biscuit recipes without using 1/4 t soda along with the baking powder. It provides immediate rise, while the baking powder works a bit slower. Together, they make for a big fluffy biscuit, PLUS, the baking soda gives a nice light golden brown to the biscuit tops! With baking, it’s all about the chemistry, but of course, it depends on what you like, as well. 🤗
I always add the soda as well. I kept waiting for her to add it and since she didn’t, I’ll have to try it with out. (Fridays breakfast) 🤷♀️
When I was very young, before I even started school, Mother taught me to make biscuits. I loved being the official biscuit maker in the family!
Yummy looking biscuits! Thanks for sharing! Good ideas, too! Blessings to everyone 🤗💕🇨🇦
This is the perfect blend of the art and science of baking.
We eat bread or rolls with dinner every night, so I used this recipe the last few times. They are perfect! No more store bought biscuits for us! Thank you for posting this!
If you don't have a food processor, and you make a good deal of biscuits or pie crust, a pastry cutter is great (relatively) inexpensive tool for cutting butter into flour without getting the butter too warm from your hands. I feel like they've sort of fallen out of favor in most mechanized kitchens these days, but they really do their job well.
I love using a pastry cutter also, especially fir my pie crusts. I wonder if Jess has one. It’s really fast and less cleanup than a food processor!
@denisemouledous7352 Totally agree! So much easier to clean.
Have you used gluten free flour for the biscuits? Will you be making gluten free recipes, canning and freeze drying? Very excited to see your new channel and the goodies to come!
Mmm,,,now I need to make these with my Memaw's tomato gravy! I'm so excited for this new channel from one of my most favorite people!
It's so exciting to see more of Jess! I would watch just about anything of yours honey!❤
"We measure salt with our heart in this house" lol. That's the same way we measure garlic.
Well! Guess this Aussie is gunna be making southern style biscuits! They look delicious! Thank you Jess, for everything 😘🌈💕
Your comment made this southern lady smile. I just love the thought of Aussie homes filled with the beauty of southern biscuits. I felt the say way the first time I was able to successfully make homemade tortillas and authentic Mexican rice for my American family.
Aussie Aussie Aussie!! 🎉 Love from Perth ❤
Thank you SO much for doing this channel Jess!!!!❤
Homemade biscuits and sausage gravy are one of our favorite meals!
😮 I almost scrolled past this until I recognised your face! Exciting and excellent timing for me personally, I've just given myself a good talking to about eating real food. Working long days and being super busy makes cooking a low priority most days, but my body is suffering for it and I finally decided enough is enough and I need to bump it up the priority list. 3 days into eating simple real food again and my energy levels are through the roof already ❤
I LOVE your cooking style, just good old fasioned food. Simple, delicious and REAL. SO excited for this channel ❤❤❤
Hamburger gravy is my family go to! Thanks for hanging out with us! 😊😊😊
I would love a video about taking care of your butcher block counter. I want one but am intimidated by using it and caring for it. So excited for this new channel!
I appreciate how you're doing this without a rolling pin.
Thrilled to be learning some skills from our fearless homesteading leader!
🎉congratulations on the new channel, #52 subscriber here!!! So excited to be here from the beginning and learning from each of your videos, thank you for sharing all that you do 🫶🏼
Thanks for the biscuit video Jess. Y'all need to set up this channel so you link to your other Roots and Refuge channel and vice versa. Just made very similar biscuits yesterday. Came out great. Best advice I can give is always hold back some liquid during the mix. Mix the dough just enough to wet everything. The more you mix the dough the tougher the biscuits will be.
I have been trying to perfect biscuits for 30 years. I tried these this morning, and they were perfect. Even my husband, who doesn't like biscuits, loved them. Thank you so much!!
OH, JESS --- I LOVE IT... I wished and hoped you would start a channel like this. Bless your sweet soul, girl
I can finally feel confident making biscuits! Thank you, Jess!
Thank you for not leaving out the little details. This video showed me what I was doing wrong. And a huge thanks for showing how to make these biscuits by hand!
We use left over biscuits by slicing them in half, smearing butter on them and toasting them for breakfast. When my girls were little they used to beg for "round toast". Now my grandchildren are eating round toast.
Very similar to how my Mamaw taught me to make biscuits but she just shaped the biscuits in her hand instead of cutting them out. During deer season she would feed about 50-75 people a day. Biscuits, chocolate syrup, bacon, sausage and eggs. The hunters would come in from the deer blinds, the kiddos knew to walk down to her house and it's where the family started the day together. Man I miss that woman! Needless to say, biscuits have a very special place in my heart.
I immediately started my “Farmer’s Table with Jess” recipe notebook. I’m so excited.
Absolutely loving the NEW channel! The biscuits look delicious! Can't wait to see the beautiful things that will be shared here!
Thanks so much! 😊
I used to watch my grandma make homemade biscuits. She used to mix with her hands too. I wish I would have learned from her. Thank you for this