Put Joe's Menu online and lets see what they have ? I want a Cathead Biscuit !! Never figured on how to make them. Biscuits have been my downfall in cooking. Then I eat them and my sugar goes to 400 ! Kevin Morgan

My dad was crazy about homemade biscuits. He sold insurance, at one point in his life, and had to go around collecting the money. Nearly every house, would give him homemade biscuits. By supper time, he wasn't so hungry. My mother would be so angry because he didn't want the big meals she cooked for him when he got home! But, as sure as she would fix a small supper, he would be starving and had not had any biscuits. Sometimes because she had been so mad the night before when he wouldn't eat much! We had to make biscuits in our freshman homemaking class. That is hilarious. I was terrified to strike a match and light the oven, or even the little gas hotplates we used. When I was 4, I was playing with candles, had a tea party for my dolls, and caught my dress on fire. I was scared of matches and fire of any kind after that. So, I was more concerned about lighting the oven, than how my biscuits came out. In our class of 8 girls, everyone's biscuits came out different. Some came out flat and crisp, like crackers. Others, rose so tall, they fell over! In my same pan, I had some that came out just right, some flat as crackers, and some that rose so tall they fell over like a slinky! We had to memorize the recipe, had tests on it, etc. I thought I would never forget that recipe, but I have. Maybe it's just as well since my biscuits came out so funny! However, other girls used it and it worked just fine for them over the years. And then there was the time when we had to make eggs. We each took a different recipe to make and there was one girl more than the teacher had recipes for. She had been helping in the cafeteria so missed out. The teacher took her to the cafeteria and got her something "special" to make. This was about in 1950, remember. Well, we made scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, poached eggs, fried, etc. But my cousin Doris had the most questionable eggs. The teacher brought her a big can, like popcorn comes in now, or potato chips used to come in, from the cafeteria. In it were government supplies for the cafeteria, which were basically war surplus. My cousin got to make powdered eggs. Well, that should have been alright, as they were using these in the cafeteria food. But, this can was left over from the War. The eggs were green. So we had green scrambled eggs long before we ever heard of "Green Eggs and Ham". Talk about some girls trying to sneak their food into the trash can any way we could! We were "required" to eat everything we cooked, but we were all willing to take an F rather than eat those awful looking eggs. The "cook", my cousin, did eat her's while the teacher was watching her, but the rest of us sneaked ours into the trashcan, then ran out of the room, leaving my poor cousin alone with the teacher, and having to eat her whole serving of green eggs. She said they weren't that bad, if you didn't look at them. Oh, my. I don't care that much for biscuits. But I do like to put them into boiling liquids (like soup or gravy) and use them for dumplings. I think it is the baking soda in the biscuits that I don't care for. They have a bit of a sour taste to them, that I'm not wild about. I like rolls much better. My daughter picked up some Churches fried chicken the other day, with biscuits with honey butter on top. Couldn't taste the honey, but it made the biscuits hard on top. The chicken wasn't very good, and had really small pieces. (Churches used to have huge pieces with lots of batter.) But, the worst was the mashed potatoes. Don't know if they used spoiled milk or sour cream in them, but we threw them away. One thing I really don't like is the change in the "grease" companies are doing. I haven't tasted Kentucky Fried Chicken yet, but I'll bet it is awful. At lunch, I usuall make a sandwich and have some Lay's Wavey sour cream and onion potato chips, or plain chips. Now, here, in Texas, anyway, they have started using sunflower oil to cook in. That stuff is awful! The only chips they aren't putting it in are Cheetos, so far. The "new" chips taste like greasey cardboard, with a little salt. They are hard and dry. I can't chew them for anything without soaking them in soup! I guess I am going to have to fry my own potatoes in Crisco, if I want some potatoes with my sandwich! 8>)) Companies should give us a choice, if we want to eat their nasty health food or if we want the real stuff. I believe I read an article about the need to go back to using the real sugar, instead of this fructose stuff. They said it isn't as good for you as first believed, and it is making prices go up due to corn shortages. I think that was online, if I remember correctly. Well, hooray for Pioneer Biscuit Mix, and refrigerated biscuits. Wish I could find some good old dewberry jelly to go with them! Love those dewberries, but no one goes out to pick them and sell them anymore. I had a lot in my yard, but I wasn't about to put my hand in those weeds to pick them. I got 4 berries this year, about 4 last year. Well, that's enough to use in painting a picture! But sure would like some good dewberry jelly and cobbler! Cecelia in Texas > Put Joe's Menu online and lets see what they have ? > I want a Cathead Biscuit !! Never figured on how to make them. Biscuits > have been my downfall in cooking. Then I eat them and my sugar goes to 400 > ! > Kevin Morgan >