buttermilk biscuits

Instead of wasting too much time on my search for a good biscuit recipe, I went straight to the source. I watched the video and read the recipe and followed it to the letter - Southern Living's favorite buttermilk biscuits. 

I used a rolling pin from my great grandmother, Grandma Massey. The red gingham apron was given to my mom by one of her students many years ago. 

The biscuits were great plain, with butter, or with jelly, but I decided to make a very special breakfast last Friday morning. 

Bacon, egg, and cheese on a buttermilk biscuit. I'm pretty proud of myself for this one. 

If you're looking for a good biscuit recipe, this is it. 

sweet potato biscuits

As a southerner, I'm ashamed to admit that I don't have a go-to biscuit recipe. I think I made biscuits in foods and nutrition class in high school, and since then, I've only made drop biscuits a handful of times to top chicken pot pie. So I'm taking a break from doughnuts to search for great biscuit recipes. 

Thumbing through a few hand me down cookbooks last week, I left some pages open with biscuit recipes. When we had extra baked sweet potatoes on hand, I decided to start my biscuit making with a recipe for sweet potato biscuits. 

The recipe is fairly quick and easy, but the dough was sticky, difficult to roll out, and more difficult to cut, pick up, and place on a baking stone. If I make this recipe again, I will roll out the dough a tad thicker, as the best biscuit in the batch was the biggest one I made by throwing together all of the scraps.

Do you have a good biscuit recipe or biscuit making tips? Please share!