Friday, May 22, 2020

Finally Great Biscuits!


Yours truly, a bread baker, has finally done it! In the eyes of my family, my homemade biscuits have gone from "not as good as those from the freezer or a can", to "the best biscuits we have had anywhere"! Then they whipped up sausage and sawmill gravy to go with, and pulled out the homemade jam. Southern biscuits through and through, only as sweet as what you put on them!


Cooking on 500° preheated cast iron makes some of the butter melt out of the bottom and sizzle, while the biscuits rise and bake in 8 minutes flat! The bottoms are golden and lightly crunchy. Steam rises out of the soft, fluffy insides when you rip one in half. Worthy to be eaten with butter alone.


This is a combination of recipes from White Lily and

A Blogger's Note

I keep my recipes each in its own Google Doc. It's great! Easy to search, easy to share, always accessible. In the kitchen, I've got a touch screen where I can read the recipe, and edit there if I want. When I've got a winner, since I'm using Google Blogger, I'm just a short copy and paste from a nice blog post, right? Hahaha; nope. It looks good in edit mode, but is terrible in preview and as a post

In Blogger Help, I found a thread called "How to convert Google Drive document to a Blog Post in Blogger?". The tips there just blew up all the text or at best stripped the formatting. Redoing all that sure takes out all the fun of making a post.

I Figured Out the Secret!!

This one cheap trick that Doctors don't want you to know....

File/Download your Google Doc as a *.rtf file on your hard drive, then double-click it. For me, it opened in Word - Compatibility Mode. Looked pretty good; had to do extra-huge line spacing, but otherwise it looked great when pasted here in Blogger! Woohoo! 

The Blogger Help thread was closed, with a really terrible "best answer", so I figured I'd post it here, in case I forget, and in case anybody else is looking for a better answer.