 coming to you live from the Collar Valley Cooks Kitchen. Today I'm going to teach y'all how to do biscuit mix. I like to mix up a lot of biscuit mix and have it handy because then you can make biscuits for two or pancakes for three and it's a lot easier to use and boy is it better than using something like Bisquick. So the first thing we're going to do I'm going to show you how quick you can do it. You can use your stand mixer or you can do it by hand if you've got a blending fork like I do and the first thing you're going to do is you're going to use two cups of flour just just your standard biscuit recipe and you're going to add a quarter cup of shortening. Now I use half yellow shortening which is butter shortening and half white shortening when I do biscuit mix it's just the best of both worlds a little bit and a lot of y'all want to use butter but now this is biscuit mix that you can keep in the pantry and so butter wouldn't work as well to keep it you know ready and in your pantry and then you're just going to use your blending fork and you're just going to blend it till it's about pea size and I'm going to show you how fast I can do this this morning and how fast you can have a good bit of biscuit mix ready. I'm going to turn around and make a couple of biscuits and some pancakes for you guys to show you how quick it can be so right now we're just cutting in the shortening into the flour until it's about pea size you don't want it real little tiny or your biscuits won't be fluffy when you mix them up and now you're just going to put it in a container that's airtight and start again so I'm going to do at least uh probably three this three times at least so that we have a good bit of biscuit mix now this is white lily flour which is really light fluffy winter wheat and it's usually good right out of the bag you don't have to normally have to sift it or anything like that the only time I sift my flour is if I get some flour that um is real lumpy looking I may not have been kept at the right temperature or something during storage time and then I will um sift it but most of the time with white lily it is nice and fluffy and wonderful to make biscuits with it's real light a great flour if you're not familiar with the white lily brand Chris will show you a picture up on the wall of the white lily brand the next thing you go in the grocery store if you live in a southeast you should be able to find some white lily that one's ready so it doesn't take long to make it then when you get up in the morning and you're tired and you just want to put a couple of biscuits in the oven if there's just one or two of you it's so much easier when you've got some mixed up already so what you're going to do is take a third cup scoop and you're going to use a third cup per person and there's three of us here today so I'm going to use three of these now that's pretty much maybe a biscuit and a half or something like that or a biscuit pretty much and that's all the biscuits I'm going to make this way and you're just going to put some milk in here and you put in for a spoon biscuit it can be kind of runny so just stir it and add your milk at the same time until you get all stuck together and that's buttermilk right and this is whole buttermilk and they could be runnier than this if you want them to run across the sheet or they can be like just like this where they're pretty sticky and now all you're going to do is pick it up and put it on the sheet and this is a spoon biscuit and if you like crunchy biscuits you know they're all mainly crust crusty this is it which is what my daddy likes yeah so there's absolutely nothing wrong with making spoon biscuits and anybody can make a spoon biscuit so if you haven't tried your hand at biscuits because you're nervous or you just haven't had a lot of luck in the past then by all means take the time out and make a spoon biscuit it's it's worth it they're delicious they don't really stuff well as far as putting eggs and sausage inside of them but boy are they good to eat with butter and syrup and and with your breakfast they're really good so we're going to slide these in the oven and these are going to bake at 450 degrees next i'm going to mix up some regular biscuits real quick just a couple to show y'all and we'll make those in the air fryer to do something quick let me show you how to do this so this time you've seen about how many biscuits that made that was for three people and it made about two apiece okay so a third cut is going to make you about two biscuits apiece which is about right for a breakfast or whatever supper whatever all right i'm going to hop right back over here and we're going to make a biscuit in the air fryer now this time we're making biscuits you're just going to add your milk a little bit at a time and you're going to mix it until there's no flour left so that time i really got it more sticky than i should have i'm going to add just a little bit of biscuit mix and then we're going to get out our sifter and we're going to make a real biscuit out of these and i really got those a little too wet that's all right we'll make it happen now in your sifter if you use a sifter to do this step you need to use real flour and not biscuit mix or you'll have shortening bits in your um strainer part the kneading part so this time we're going to put it out on the counter finish that whole thing and i'm going to have to pat a good bit of flour into these because i got them so wet normally you wouldn't get them quite that wet you just need to be just sticky just like those thin biscuits were and um and then you would knead them about seven times and this time i'm having to fold them over a little extra i know about how i wanted to feel to make a biscuit like this with this so i pat it out about it's about a half inch to three-quarter inch thick i guess you'd say and we're going to get these in the air fryer so these will cook quick and i'll spray the bottom of the air fryer and this what i'm just going to roll with my hands i have a biscuit recipe on how to roll a biscuit as well so you can roll a biscuit and make it just as pretty um as a cut biscuit all right i'm going to spray the bottom of this we're going to sit these down in there and then we're going to start some pancakes and the air fryer is automatically set on 350 and for quite a few minutes so i'll leave it on that setting because the air fryer gets hotter together and like y'all see how they look when they're baked right up against each other today instead of apart and a lot of times i'll come in here and i'll make biscuits out you know when it's already made like it's already done like that yeah of course always does our pancakes though some buttermilk or something in there right here we go all right for pancakes we use a third cup as well per person so today i'm only going to use two because we've got biscuits as well i'm just going to show you how easy it is to make pancakes for a couple of people we put in a little bit of vanilla every time we make pancakes no matter what i guess i'll make three anyway you can also store um pancake mix in the refrigerator show them the easy way to do it i'll show y'all the easy way to make pancakes the vanilla and sugar makes it good and a good flour puffy flour like this how much sugar you put in at risk i just throw some in there a little bit yeah that's way too much i've got too much well that's enough you put about a what was it about a tablespoon and we use a whisk and you're going to eyeball it again that uh what the thing's not running the uh the air for yeah you never turned it on you didn't hit start i'm just going to bake them at 350 be done baby all right make it easy oh man so you eyeball it with pancakes as well as far as the milk goes and you're going to want it you could see it it looked really runny but once i start beating up the flour into that that's about how you want it right there so you're just going to add milk a little bit of time until you get it pretty thick like that and the thicker it is the thicker your pancakes going to be and the thinner it is the thinner your pancakes but you got to be careful not get too thick or they won't get good done on the inside right and you got to have your your skillet hot but not too hot or they'll get too brown but out before getting done you want pancakes to bubble across the top before you flip them we'll go ahead and draw up a couple and i usually make one pancake at a time that's one of your times if i'm making these then we'll scramble some eggs and then some are done all right let's flip this over i'll trade size to be crisp you can let them see how that's going to bubble on the top over there and once the bubbles start coming all the way across the pancake that's when you can flip it all right we're going to flip this we're going to take my hand and my skillet because it's about one side than the other now we're going to flip this you can stay right there okay a little bit now this is a spoon biscuit you can see it's crunchy on the outside but they're delicious y'all yeah plenty of crust okay this is our biscuits in the air fryer and they usually don't get very brown on the bottom but they are plenty brown on the top they're fine so our biscuits are done our pancakes are done i got this little it's a defrost tray and i sit it here uh so that when the air fryer is done i could just sit it down on the counter otherwise it would burn the today i'm just going to fry these real quick a little salt on them a little pepper on them a lot of plate yeah this i think the main thing is to show them the biscuits and let them see what they look like okay because everybody knows what a pancake this is a biscuit these you can stuff because they're nice and cut out so you could make a little hand biscuit this morning like that and then these are for sopping up your butter and syrup i'll show you how chris does that or create ball right on these so chris takes butter and you mix this it together it's butter and syrup i need to make y'all peanut butter and syrup sandwich on here i haven't shown you how to do that yet they're so good all right so this is what he'll eat the with the spin biscuit and these are nice and crunchy but nice and fluffy on the inside they're really good i'll eat one for y'all and then we'll sign off and eat breakfast i hope y'all have a wonderful sunday morning mmm that's good have a blessed day and we'll see you next time on colored valley cooks where we cook like mama did y'all go make some biscuit meat