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A typical modern recipe will include baking powder or baking soda, flour, salt, shortening or butter, and milk or buttermilk. The percentages of these ingredients vary as historically the recipe would pass orally from family to family and generation to generation. Biscuits are almost always a savory food item.
According to General Mills, Bisquick was invented in 1930 after one of their top sales executives met an innovative train dining car chef, [1] on a business trip. After the sales executive complimented the chef on his deliciously fresh biscuits, the dining car chef shared that he used a pre-mixed biscuit batter he created consisting of lard, flour, baking powder and salt.
Milk alternatives vary quite a bit in texture, from thick and creamy soy milk or canned coconut milk to thinner and more watery options like rice, almond, hemp, and flax milk.
Shortcrust pastry recipes usually call for twice as much flour as fat by weight. Fat (as lard, shortening, butter or traditional margarine) is rubbed into plain flour to create a loose mixture that is then bound using a small amount of ice water, rolled out, then shaped and placed to create the top or bottom of a pie. Often, equal amounts of ...
Shortening is any fat that is a solid at room temperature and is used to make crumbly pastry and other food products. The idea of shortening dates back to at least the 18th century, well before the invention of modern, shelf-stable vegetable shortening. [1] In the earlier centuries, lard was the primary ingredient used to shorten dough. [2]
Gluten-free baking mixes may be prepared using rice flour in place of wheat flour. [3] [10] Dry baking mixes typically require the addition of water or milk, and may also require additional ingredients such as eggs, butter and cooking oil. Commercially, the market is divided into dough mixes, complete mixes, and concentrates. [11]
However, if cake flour is called for, a substitute can be made by replacing a small percentage of all-purpose flour with cornstarch or removing two tablespoons from each cup of all-purpose flour. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Some recipes explicitly specify or permit all-purpose flour, notably where a firmer or denser cake texture is desired.
Further success came from the marketing technique of giving away free cookbooks in which every recipe called for Crisco. By the mid-20th-century, home cooks often substituted Crisco for butter in baked goods, such as was the case in this orange cake recipe. Crisco vegetable oil was introduced in 1960.