After posting the Blueberry Streusel recipe, there were a lot of people inquisitive about the homemade biscuit mix.
You may fall out of your chair by how easy and frugal it is.
Homemade Biscuit Mix
1 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp shortening
Mix all of your dry ingredients together making sure that they are fully incorporated. Then add the shortening and cut in until crumbly. This is equivalent to 1 cup of Bisquick, so you can use interchangeably.
For bulk purposes:
8 cups flour
1/4 c baking powder
1 Tbsp plus 1 tsp salt
1/2 cup shortening
Because of the shortening, I prefer to store this in an airtight container in the refrigerator. However, I do believe that you can store it at room temperature, but I wouldn’t do it for more than 2 weeks.
For the bulk batch, it comes in under $2, and it will make 40-48 biscuits total.
For more frugal ideas, check out Frugal Friday over at Biblical Womanhood and some great recipes over at Grocery Cart Challenge.
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Love how simple and easy this recipe is! Thank you for sharing!!
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Thanks for the recipe!! Have you tried this with whole wheat flour?
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Thank you, so much…I soon will try it…..and great questionen Genie ….
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You are right, this looks easy. I’m thinking I will try it with the black-eye pea soup (I think) you posted a while back.
Thanks for sharing!
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Wow! That is super easy.
Just curious though, how many biscuits does one cup of Bisquik make?
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If you can use this like Bisquick then it would be very versatile, like for pancakes, waffles, biscuits, etc! Cool.
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Drea-
I do believe it makes a between 6-8 biscuits. Of course it depends on how big you make them.
Phoebe
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Genie-
No–but I really want to! I would probably do a half and half mix at first. I might just do that next week. Or you can, and let me know!
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Thank you!!
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