I grew up eating homemade biscuits and I love to make them for my family, but I don't do it very much because I just can't stand the thought of rolling out the dough. It always seems to get too sticky and honestly, who really has the time when you want to make a quick breakfast?
Drop biscuits, where you just bake spoonfuls of biscuit dough instead of rolling and cutting, are a great shortcut version, but they don't always bake up as tender and fluffy as I'd like. But I recently ran across a drop biscuit method that might have changed my mind.
Content creator @mamawgailcooks shared her method for making biscuits on TikTok and it's just so easy and the biscuits look absolutely delicious. I will be incorporating this method into my morning routine to make light, fluffy, homemade biscuits for my kids.
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In the caption to the video, Mamaw Gail lists the ingredients for these amazing biscuits, which she calls the "easy way" to make them. All you need is self-rising flour, water, milk and vegetable shortening. To make them, she simply heats her oven to 425Ā° and melts two tablespoons of shortening in a cast iron skillet.
Then, she puts two cups of flour in a mixing bowl and makes a well in the center to add the milk. She then pours in the melted shortening and whisks the milk, shortening, and flour together to make a dough. If it's too dry, she adds a little water until she has a scoopable dough.
Once the dough is ready, she uses a spoon to drop heaps of it into the hot pan, completely filling the skillet. Once the dough is nestled in, she brushes melted shortening on top, but you can also use melted butter if you prefer. This keeps the tops from dying out as the biscuits bake.
She pops the entire skillet into the oven and bakes the biscuits for 20 minutes. Once they're done baking, she switches the oven to broil for five minutes to get the tops golden brown. When the biscuits are done, she flips the entire pan onto a plate, so that the bottoms of the biscuits are facing upward. You can easily see a separation between each biscuit and they simply pull apart. They have a rustic, homemade appearance, which adds to the appeal. When she broke open a biscuit they looked tender and impossibly fluffy, which isn't always the case with drop biscuits.
Aside from how fast and easy it is to make these, the cleanup process afterward is also fast because you don't have to roll the dough onto a countertop or cutting board. This is definitely going to be a new recipe in our house!
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