 Hey y'all, it's Timmy with Colored Valley Cooks and it's Sunday morning coming to you live from the Colored 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 boys have better than using something like this quick. 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 as 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 this 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 probably three, that's 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 is real lumpy looking and may not have been kept at the right temperature or something during storage time. And then I will 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 the 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. And I just wanted y'all to see how fast it is. Then we're going to get to making breakfast. I'm going to make some pancakes this morning to show you how great it is to use for pancakes, and I'm going to make some biscuits this morning. I've just got one more to mix up and then we'll get to cooking. So I'm going to move these out of my way. I've got a little flour on the counter, but that's all right because we're going to make some biscuits in a minute. This blending fork is the best thing I have ever used to blend shortening or butter if you're using butter into flour. This biscuit mix can be used for pancakes, cobbler toppings, dumplings, biscuits, a lot of stuff, waffles. We've got a good bit of biscuit mix mixed up in a container and we can start, I'll just go ahead and use this bowl, we can start making stuff with it. The first thing we're going to do is mix up some spoon biscuits. I don't think I've shown y'all how to do spoon biscuits yet and so I'm going to get me a piece of parchment and we are going to make some spoon biscuits first. They're easy to make if you're not. One that's real great, I'm trying to figure out where my pan is. I can't think this one is under here probably. If you're one that's not made a lot of biscuits and you don't have a lot of experience, or you're just in a hurry, you don't have to put them out on the counter and pat them down and do all that. You can just make a spoon biscuit. So we're going to, I'm going to show you how to do that first. 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 it 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 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 crusty. This is it. Which is what my daddy likes. 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 worth it. They're delicious. They don't really stuff well as far as putting eggs and sausage inside of them. But boy, they're good to eat with butter and syrup 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's 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. So here we go again but this time we are going to make let me get this off my fingers. This time we are going to make a real biscuit and before that we do that let's throw this ham in the skillet right away while I'm thinking about it. I've got some ham right here I was going to make and I really want to use butter with it. I like to put my ham in butter so I'm going to wrap it up and I'm going to throw some of this ham in the skillet real quick. And then we're going to make a pancake. We're just making everything this morning. I want you to see how great this biscuit mix can be. I had my skillet preheated. I just love to make ham with butter. This is a sliced ham snifffield that you just get at the grocery store in a slab piece and they're really good to make for breakfast. I'm not going to be able to fit the whole thing in my skillet so I may save some for some beans or something today. This is really good to flavor your beans with if you make dried beans as well. Alright we're 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. This 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 but that's alright. 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 strainer part. The netting part. So this time I'm going to put it out on the counter and 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. They just need to be sticky just like those biscuits were. And then you would knead them about 7 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. Medium sized biscuit with this today. 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 is 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 as a cut biscuit. 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 than a oven does. You know what, I think I'm going to put these together and like y'all see how they look when they're baked right up against each other today instead of apart. What I'm going to do is change the temperature to 400 and the time for six and then if they're not done we'll just hit the button and let them start on 350 and finish off. Okay, now we're going to make pancakes. But first let's just scrape up this counter just a little bit. Hope y'all enjoyed being with us all this morning cooking. Amy's home. So when Amy's home, we have more to eat breakfast. And of course we wouldn't make all this stuff normally. We just want to show y'all how convenient it is to have it on hand and how it really don't take that long to make some. So you could just take a Saturday every once in a while and make you a little bit of biscuit mix and then have it the rest of the week. You don't have to worry with making biscuits from scratch every morning. You'll have the biscuit mix but use your shortening. Okay, if it's going to have enough shelf life you're going to need to use the shortening and not butter. And a lot of times I'll come in here and I'll make biscuits that, you know, when it's already made like it's already done like that. Yeah, Chris always does our pancakes. I'll add those and 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 pancake mix in the refrigerator that you don't use. Do you put an egg in yours, Chris? Because I do. No, but you can. I mean, you can make it with milk or you can make it with milk and eggs. I put sugar in it usually. I know, but I guess I'm going to put the egg in there since you don't want to do it. Show them the easy way to do it. I'll show you 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 it, Chris? Just throw some in there. A little bit, yeah. That's way too much. Okay, too much. Well, that's enough. That's enough. You put about a... What was it? About a tablespoon? Well, I got this drawer open. I'm going to put on our syrup. It's got syrup on the bottom, baby. Something has leaked in here. We turn this up. Milk. Regulating it for pancakes. And you're going to eyeball it again. That, uh... What? The thing's not running. The, uh... The air fryer. Yeah, you never turned it on. You didn't hit start. I'm just going to make them at 315B 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 can see it. It looks 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 pancake's going to be. And the thinner it is, the thinner your pancake's going to be. But you've got to be careful not to get too thick or they won't get good and done on the inside. Right. And you've got to have your skillet hot but not too hot or they'll get too brown without before getting done. You want pancakes to bubble across the top before you flip them. We'll go ahead and drop a couple. And lots of times the first pancake, um... It's not as good. I don't think it's as hot. It's hot as I want it to be yet. Okay. Even if I had the eye on it, it was really down, down really low. So I'm going to get this, because this is a nonstick skillet. So while we're doing that, I'm going to put this stuff up. Hope you're having a good Sunday morning. This is a super easy way to be prepared for Sunday morning. And you can see how much of that mix you've got left. That'll make us another, me and her. I mean, that'll last us a good while. What's good about making the biscuit mix is then you're not mixing up two whole cups. Every time. You know, every time and having extra biscuits that you've got to do something with. If you mix the biscuit mix and you just add your milk a little bit at a time. He has added a little at a time. With me, I add it pretty quick. But if you're not experienced, then add a little bit at a time. And that way you don't waste your biscuits. And your biscuit mix. But what is it easy to do? And y'all see how fast it is to do? It's not hard. So I'm going to put my stuff up here while it's under these grits. Oh, honey. And then we're going to finish up right. Because you can break them around here, honey. Let them look at the ham or something. They're probably tired of looking at me by now. There's the spoon biscuits. They're already starting to brown a little bit. Those are the easiest thing to make. You can make a whole cake with it, too. You can't mess up with it. Just throw you a bunch of buttermilk in there. You've never made a biscuit. It's the easiest. You can make a whole cake so easy. And they're so delicious if you have an iron skillet. That's what makes it so good in front of you. If you don't have an iron skillet, of course the whole cake won't be as tasty. It's just like corn bread. It needs to be made in an iron skillet to be really good. We've got a video for that if you want to look at it. You can just type in CBC. Okay. H-O-E. I think we're hot enough. We've got it all going on this morning. Where you want me at? On this side or the other side? I'm just going to put a scoop in here. And I usually make one pancake at a time. Then we'll scramble some eggs and dance them. We're going to flip this over and I'll try to size them to be crisp. You can let them see how that's been a 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. I'm going to take my ham and my skillet because it's that browner on one side than the other. Now we're going to flip this. You can stay right there. Pancake. Some coffee perking at the same time. I know. What's wrong with this? We've got so much going on. Let me check on these. They've been in there five minutes. This is in five minutes. I see it good. Five minutes, y'all. So we're going to put them back in there. Three hundred fifty degrees. And you can cook them hotter than that. You just don't want to cook them. Well, you know, I mean, really, I think the air fryer biscuits, if you put them close together like that, it might all be cooked to three pieces. Oh, really? Yeah. Because you want to get done on the middle before they get too brown on the outside. You don't want to eat the pan cake or anything else. You don't want to eat the world over. Close up on that pan cake. You can get it up here where y'all can see it. There's our pan cake. And they're delicious. That's my specialty. Now, I put an egg in them when I make them. But he don't. He makes them all the time. But they're good either way. Oh, yeah. Like I said, you can't mess it up. He messes up this delicious ham either. Looks good on it. We ought to make some gravy out of the your things on this. Yeah, we need a bunch of people over here today. All the stuff we're making. We need to get the neighbors. Maybe I won't make gravy. We need to get the neighbors over here. All right, here we go and flip. The next time I flip one, I want you to be on this side and I want you to show them the side of the pan cake and how it just raises up. Oh, while it's cooking? That's what you like for that thing all the time. The next time I flip, wouldn't you have to show them? Time lapsing. Yeah. All right, we're going to try. We're going to try it. And be patient and let your pan cake get done. Be patient and don't cook it on too high of a temperature as well. Yeah, when you've got all the kids waiting over here, when's the real one about pancakes? You got to tell them I got to wait. It's ready. You do that and I'll watch your pan cake. I could start walking behind you instead of coming in front of you every time. Help me to do that? No, not for that part. I mean when I flip it. Okay. All right. All right. He's got to get with the program. You don't see a rise like you do as much when you flip it. Now this could be some red-eye gravy. You just put some coffee in it. All right. Here we go. Now this time you're going to concentrate on the edge of the pancake and I'm going to try to move it and skill it a little bit. They're not going to get done on the bottom there. I like to put butter on my pancakes as soon as I get them out of this. And normally we would eat them as soon as they are. But we're just showing y'all. Yeah, when we make pancakes, we make two or three and one person gets their pancakes and eats them while they're like eat them as they get done. Look, eats last. Yup. Or if the kids aren't out of bed yet they make their own when they get up. All right. Let's see how these are doing. Is it ready? Now this is a spoon biscuit. You can see it's crunchy on the outside. But they're delicious y'all. Taking that one a minute to bubble up good. And y'all can throw some butter on that when it comes out. Eat them hot. Throw them in a sack, take them fishing with you. Eat them later. I'm going to make a few eggs. I'm going to make them quick like I normally do for y'all today. Got a full bowl of crisp for my shells. I'm just going to throw the shells in the sink like I always do. I'm going to cook like y'all are here. They're our family this morning. We got one more pancake to make. So I don't remember how much we put in here because it tastes good. I don't remember. I think you might have said but you can see that's a big stack of pancakes for the amount of spoon. And then you don't have a bunch of batter left over because you make what you need. And we'll show you the inside of these biscuits here. If you like them crunchy, that's the way to go. Plenty of your crunch. 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 so that when the air fryer is done I can just sit it down on the counter otherwise it would burn the counter. We got this last pancake to do and then we're going to mix up some eggs I am going to put these biscuits on so you can see them I guess. Give me a plate. We'll show you the insides of them and all that. So you can see them. You can put it all on one big plate. Yeah and if you flip your biscuits upside down they'll stay crunchier. So we made all that out of what? About eight scoops or nine scoops or a third cup scoops. They have to go back in count. Now we're going to make some eggs real quick and then we're going to eat. I hope y'all enjoyed watching this cook this morning. I've enjoyed cooking and showing you how versatile that is. All my biscuit mix is. You can talk about it all day long but when you show somebody it helps. I'm going to be throwing this over there so you might want to get on this side of me. This is how I really cook y'all. Some people out of gas but usually when I crack my eggs I just throw the shells in the sink. A lot of people do stuff the way they did because they don't want to clean up. They're like well I'm not going to make a mess but we just cleaned it up. Today I'm just going to fry these real quick. A little salt on them. A little pepper on them. I'll make Chris this runny and I'll make mine done. And I'll leave Chris this yolk solid because he likes the whites done and the yellows not so done. Right I'm going to pick up if you want to just walk to that side over there. Or you can let them watch the eggs if you want to. They like to watch things cook. Put this on the table. We're going to get our syrup off of the bottom. Apparently somebody got syrup and let it run all over the place. Probably Mr. Nichols. I've never done anything like that. Set it up a little bit too high for eggs to apply. You're going to eat a pancake? I'll just make a lot plate. I think the main thing is to show them the biscuits and let them see what they look like. Because everybody knows what a pancake is. This is a biscuit. These you can stuff because they're nice and cut out. So you can make your 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. I'll quit while we're waiting on these eggs. His eggs are done. Let me get his out. I probably overcooked him because I'm tall here. But he don't mind eating for you. I don't care. As long as I get something deep. I overdone. There's his eggs. But that's all right. So Chris takes butter and syrup. And you mix this together. What he'll eat his Sping Biscuits with. Is that too much butter? It's not butter. You can't mess it up. It's butter and syrup. I need to make our peanut butter and syrup sandwich on here. I haven't shown you how to do that yet. They're so good. I'll eat with the Sping Biscuits. 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. Sping Biscuits are delicious. They really are. I have to swallow my food. Y'all have a wonderful Sunday. And y'all can tune in to Collard Valley Baptist Church this morning if you want to. Y'all have a blessed day. And we'll see you next time on Coloured Valley Cooks where we cook like mama did. Y'all go make some biscuit meats.