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Basic Homemade Biscuit Mix
4 cups unsifted, all purpose white flour (spoon lightly into cup and level off)
1/3 cup double-acting baking powder
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 cup butter flavor or solid white shortening
1 cup nonfat dry milk powder
4 cups whole wheat flour
Into a large bowl, sift together 4 cups white flour, the baking powder, sugar and salt. This removes lumps and helps mix ingredients. Cut in shortening with 2 knives, pastry blender, or fingers until it looks like coarse oatmeal. Stir in the dry milk. Stir in the 4 cups of whole wheat flour; mix well.
Store in covered container at room temperature.
Granny's Cookbook
Basic Coffee Cake
2 cups MIX
1 egg
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
Combine MIX and sugar. Mix egg and water and stir into dry ingredients until just blended. Spread in 8-inch square pan and sprinkle with topping. Bake at 375° F for about 20 minutes.
Cinnamon Topping
1/3 cup brown sugar (or white)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons margarine or butter
2 tablespoons MIX
Combine dry ingredients and cut in margarine. Spread over batter before baking.
Apple Cake:
Top Basic Coffee Cake with apple slices arranged in a pretty design. Sprinkle with a mixture of 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
Banana Bread
2 eggs
1 1/4 cups mashed banana (about 3)
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon banana or vanilla flavoring
1/4 cup water
2 1/2 cups MIX
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Beat eggs and sugar together in a bowl until well blended. Mix in flavoring, soda, mashed banana, and water. Stir in MIX just until all dry ingredients are coated. Pour into a greased 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Bake in a 350° F oven for 45 to 55 minutes or until brown.
Breadsticks
1 cup MIX
1/4 cup water (about)
1/4 cup cornmeal or flour
sesame or caraway seeds (optional)
1/4 teaspoon salt
Mix dry ingredients. Add water to form dough. Knead 12 times. Shape into pencil-like strands 1/2 inch thick. Cut into 3-inch lengths. Roll in sesame or caraway seeds if desired. Bake at 400° F for about 20 minutes or until brown and crisp.
For extra crispness, when sticks are brown, turn off oven and leave sticks in oven for 10 minutes or so.
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Brownies
2 eggs
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons soft margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
1 1/3 cups MIX
1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Beat eggs, water and margarine together until fluffy. Stir in vanilla, sugar and cocoa. Add MIX and blend well. Fold in nuts. Spread in a greased 8x8x2 inch pan. Bake in 350° F oven for about 30 minutes. Makes 16.
Biscuits
2 cups MIX
1/3 to 1/2 cup water
Measure MIX into bowl; add 1/3 cup water and stir. Add a little more water if needed to form a soft dough.
Knead gently about 12 times in a bowl or on a surface sprinkled with MIX.
Roll or pat into 1/2 inch thickness. Cut into circles using a floured biscuit cutter, or cut into squares or triangles with a knife.
Brush tops of biscuits with milk. Bake at 425° F for 10 to 15 minutes. Makes 8 to 12 biscuits.
Drop Biscuits:
Increase water to 2/3 cup. Stir water into 2 cups of MIX until all flour is moistened. Drop onto a greased cookie sheet by heaping tablespoons. Bake as above.
Cornbread
1 cup MIX
1 egg, beaten
1 cup cornmeal
2/3 cup milk
2 tablespoons sugar
Blend dry ingredients thoroughly. Combine beaten egg and milk; stir into dry ingredients. Pour into greased 8-inch square pan. Bake at 425° F for 25 to 30 minutes. Makes 9 pieces.
Muffins
3 cups MIX
1 egg, beaten
3 to 4 tablespoons sugar
1 cup water
1 teaspoon flavoring such as vanilla or lemon
Combine MIX and sugar in a bowl. Blend egg and water; add to MIX and sugar. Stir gently, just until dry ingredients are moistened. Fill well greased 2 1/2" muffin pans 2/3 full. Bake in a 400° F oven for 20-25 minutes. Makes about one dozen muffins. To make six muffins, half ingredients, but use one whole egg.
Variations:
Apple: Add 3/4 cup chopped, peeled apples and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon to muffin batter.
Bran: Reduce MIX to 2 1/2 cups and add 1/2 cup unprocessed bran flakes to dry ingredients.
Blueberry: Add 1/2 cup drained canned, fresh or frozen defrosted blueberries to batter.
Pancakes
2 cups MIX
1 egg, beaten
1 1/4 cups water or milk
Combine all ingredients; stirring just enough to moisten dry ingredients. Drop by spoonfuls onto a hot non-stick or greased griddle or fry pan. Turn when bubbles appear on the surface of the cakes. Cook until well browned. Makes about 12 to 16 pancakes. For waffles add 1 tablespoon melted fat or oil to pancake mixture. Makes 4 small waffles.
Pizza Crust
1 1/3 cups MIX
1/3 cup water (about)
2 tablespoons cornmeal
Combine MIX and cornmeal with enough water to make soft dough. Knead in bowl 12 times. Roll or pat out thin on a greased cookie sheet into an 11-or 12-inch circle or into a rectangle. Turn up edges of dough. Bake in a 425° F oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until partially baked and starting to brown.
Filling
1 cup homemade or canned spaghetti sauce
4 ounces cubed or shredded mozzarella cheese or process cheese food
Grated parmesan or romano cheese (optional)
Spread spaghetti sauce over partially baked biscuit crust. Sprinkle with mozzarella and then with some parmesan. Bake in a 375° F oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until filling is hot and crust is brown. One-half pound of cooked seasoned ground beef, drained, and 1 cup diced, raw or cooked vegetables may be added before the cheese is sprinkled on if desired.
Indian Fry Bread
1 cup MIX
1/3 cup water (about)
1/2 cup flour
oil or shortening for frying
1/4 teaspoon salt
Combine MIX, flour and salt. Stir in enough water to make soft dough. Knead 12 times in bowl or on floured surface. Form into two balls. Pat or roll each ball out to 1/4 inch thickness; cut into 6 wedges. Fry in hot fat (375° F) until brown on one side. Turn to brown second side. Drain on absorbent paper. Makes 1 dozen.
Turnovers
1 recipe biscuit dough Mix (tasty made with vegetable cooking liquid instead of water for meat fillings)
Choice of filling
Cut dough into 6 equal parts. Form each part into a ball. Roll or pat out into a circle 5" or 6" in diameter. Put on ungreased cookie sheet. Place two or three tablespoons filling on one side of circle. Fold dough over filling. Press edges of dough together firmly. Prick top with fork. Bake at 400° F for 18 to 20 minutes or until brown. Makes 6.
Fillings:
Runza (Hamburger-Cabbage):
Brown one small minced onion in 1 tablespoon oil. Add 1/2 pound ground beef and brown. Mix in 2 cups shredded cabbage, 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper; cover and cook for about 15 minutes. Drain off liquid. This makes enough for 12 hamburger/cabbage-filled turnovers.
Chili:
Use drained canned or homemade chili.
Fruit:
Use sweetened thick applesauce; any canned fruit pie filling, drained; or fresh cut-up and sweetened fruit; or canned mincemeat. Try fruit juice instead of water in Nebraska MIX biscuit dough with fruit fillings.
These recipes are just like the boxed biscuit mix you can buy in the store, except you make it yourself for so much less! It can be kept in an old ice cream pail, or whatever else you might have around. Just look at all the different things you can make with the MIX!
The recipe at the bottom of the page is for Runzas made with the MIX. Runzas are well-known in Nebraska: a tasty hamburger & cabbage mix baked inside a crust. I like to serve mine with brown gravy, but many people just eat them plain.
7 UP Biscuits
2 cups Bisquick
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup 7-up
1/4 cup melted butter
Cut sour cream into biscuit mix, add 7-Up. Makes a very soft dough.
Sprinkle additional biscuit mix on board or table and pat dough out. Melt 1/4 cup butter in a 9 inch square pan. Place cut biscuits in pan and bake at 450 degrees until golden brown.
