boggled by biscuits

[hsingscrapper]

I found a very neat recipe for cheesburger pockets on the "Mommy Hates Cooking" blog. I'd like to make them in bulk for my boys but I need an alternative recipe or product to the Grands biscuits she used since I'm trying to stick to whole foods.

Any ideas?

[heartosunshine]

This is our go-to biscuit recipe: King Arthur Flour

[Mergath]

One of the tricks with homemade biscuits is, if you're using a round biscuit cutter, flour it each time you're going to cut a biscuit, then push it straight down and pull it straight up.  Don't twist it as you cut, or the biscuit won't rise as well.  And when you transfer the biscuit to the cookie sheet to bake it, don't touch the sides if you can help it.  

[shukriyya]

I'm assuming Grands are a store-bought biscuit? If you want something store-bought but whole and organic these might work for your purposes.

[Jane in NC]

Don't you know that you need Southern genes to make a decent biscuit? ;)

 

I too use the King Arthur recipe.  Some folks in the South swear by soft wheat flours (like Martha White or Lily) but I use whole wheat pastry flour.  What has improved the quality of my biscuits is a decent buttermilk. 

[hsingscrapper]

Grands are a store-bought biscuit. It calls for flattening the biscuits and my biscuits always seem to be fragile things, tasty, but fragile.

The Immaculate Baking site won't cooperate with my browser. :(

[shukriyya]

Grands are a store-bought biscuit. It calls for flattening the biscuits and my biscuits always seem to be fragile things, tasty, but fragile.

The Immaculate Baking site won't cooperate with my browser. :(

 

You can get them at Whole Foods if you've got one in your town.

[wendy not in HI]

I would make my favorite bread dough and use it to substitute the biscuit.  My homemade biscuits are good but don't stretch like the Grands biscuits would.  I think regular bread dough would do the trick.  Sounds yummy!

[zoobie]

I'd use a pizza-type dough that you'd use for calzones/Stromboli. Or a bread-like bierock dough. Regular biscuit dough would not be sturdy enough and would be rock hard with that much handling.