As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The following in my recipe, out of necessity in not throwing things out, and it probably relates how long egg nog in a container will last in only being slightly soured as this is September in writing this and I have been using this instead of sour cream.
Sour cream in cooking was utilized like all things, to not throwing food away that could be made into food. That is why it is in all the old recipes, as it required great labor to milk a cow, to cut hay to feed a cow, to dig a well to water a cow, to build a barn to protect a cow, so you just did not throw away sour cream to the hogs, and found a way to use it in cooking.
Not having sour cream or now wasting cream to sour as it is expensive, I happened upon some egg nog which TL had in the fridge. This is my recipe for Lame Cherry biscuits, in knowing that they put nutmeg into donuts and other things, so this is not a stretch of the cooking script.
1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp's baking powder (can get by with one in being frugal)
1/2 cup egg nog
3 Tablespoons sugar
2/3rds stick of butter as I had used the first 1/3rd to quarter for toast and I hate it that recipes always use so many expensive sticks of butter.
I work this with rubber gloves to about 1 inch thick, and end up with about 8 biscuits, cut out with a 2 1/2 inch juice glass.......you have to wiggle it to get the air out and make it burp.....or if you have a tin can you can cut off the rim, poke a few holes in the top with your can opener to let the air out and use it that way.
Tuna cans make big biscuits and soup cans too small, so leave the 303's to recycling...just find one that suits you and use it, as I will not pay huge sums for a biscuit cutter.
Oh and like those fruit cocktail cans, or even a 303, you cut the rim off of them with holes in the top, they make great boiled potatoe choppers in the pan, so you do not have to cut them up which is tedious.
Is all that old German innovation stuff, in you had boiled potatoes, never threw out the leftovers, and turned them into fried potatoes the next day.
So this makes about 8 biscuit in TL's like 3 dollar Toastmaster oven TL picked up at an estate sale over my will.........TL was right, the thing works great as a bake oven, and on hot days is cooler than the oven, so the air does not run.
I have been making chicken in it with a sauce of red wine vinegar, brown sugar, soy sauce and onion, in a recipe TL found, and it works wonders.
If you dip the fluid out which is the gelatin protein from the bones, you can save it for stock, soup or gravy in another meal from the chicken meat and bones.
Meanwhile at about 15 to 20 minutes you got biscuits that TL likes, as TL never had biscuit food previously.
These biscuit are a bit crunchy on the outside, always tender, sweet enough, and a very good bread product to enter into a meal. I really dislike sour bread flavors, so the sugar is included. Meat as in chicken, pork and beef is sour enough, and bread should not be......besides my biscuits and breads are a delight if you have to eat them alone, in a higher energy food.
One day I will move TL to try biscuits and gravy....hopefully beef or maybe turkey. Turkey gravy's secret is onion salt to make it taste a great deal better.
Any way these are Lame Cherry proprietary biscuits using egg nog.....have used egg nog in banana bread too and that is passable as a flavor too. With biscuits it just gives them a bit more crisp, sweetness and moisture which has one wondering with regular biscuits or corn bread, why the hell you are stuck eating that dry sour stuff the second go round.
These biscuits make you feel better and when you have meat, they make you feel pleased to have survived to the next meal.
See if I did not have rotten egg nog, I never would have discovered in poverty that it makes a better biscuit.
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