Good Eats S1E7P2: The Dough Also Rises

Searching for the perfect southern-style biscuit, Alton Brown investigates flour and leaveners and turns to his Grandmother for a pointer or two...not to mention a few pointed comments.

Recipes featured in this episode: Scones, Shortcake, and Southern Biscuits.

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[Beccka]

"When did yours get to be perfect?" I love Ma Mae. She's great, and it is so nice to see that they had a good relationship.

[DaedalusMachina]

"Ma Mae, your oven hasn't seen 475 since the ICE AGE." "My oven can outcook your oven any day." "I've got better ovens in the... garage!"

[clairebear0713]

@ Theteller3

LOL!!

I was just thinking wait a sec

There is a connection here

But I can't quite put my finger on it! Ha!

Love the nerdiness

[Theteller3]

alton brown reminds me of Sheldon Cooper, but instead of physics its food,and instead meemaw its Ma Mae

[gunnarwordon]

ma mae don't put up with no bull.

[SPGhettus]

@7j8i9m As a child of the South, I can reveal another secret. Sorghum molasses (not blackstrap or any other variety available up north or made from sugarcane) is wonderful on hot, buttered biscuits. Wikipedia calls it "sorghum syrup".

[Crunchy68]

@marymurphy1988 Maybe the "hoe cakes" you heard about were ...shall we say evolved... from real hoe cakes, but the very meaning of the word is that you cooked them on a hoe. They were poverty food for people with no stoves or pans, just fireplaces, probably living in a log cabin. They couldn't be deep-fried, although they might be a thick type of batter.

[marymurphy1988]

@HellsingWalter87 I always heard hoe cakes were made from a batter more like pan cakes and practically deep fried them. whatever they are they sound delicious.

[HellsingWalter87]

My granma called the larger remaining part of the biscuit dough a "hoe cake" because they used to be heated over a fire using the flat side of a farming hoe. She cooked hers in the oven, but it was cool to hear the history. Of course I always got it :3

[charlieblood1234]

Best way of making bicuits follow Ma Mae's way but put a couple tablespoons of bacon fat into the pan and place it in your oven, when your ready take the pan out place the biscuit in the pan and bake as she did.

[SimuLord]

@7j8i9m My doctor told me after my heart attack three years ago "you've got to cut out all that butter if you want to live to fifty." (I'm 33) To which I said "Who wants to live to fifty if you can't have butter?" Besides, Julia Child lived past 90 eating rich French cuisine.

[7j8i9m]

Try putting honey on your southern biscuits. Maybe honey and butter if you really love yourself (and have no regard for your cardiac safety).