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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.
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.
Jiffy corn muffin, baking and pie crust mixes. The company's main products are muffin mixes, including those for corn muffins (including a vegetarian and honey variety), banana, berry (blueberry and raspberry) and apple cinnamon. Additional products include brownie mix, cake mixes, pie and pizza crust mixes, and multi-purpose baking mixes. [9]
A sealed crustless sandwich consists of a filling between two layers of crimp-sealed bread, with the crust removed.. Homemade variations are typically square, round, or triangular; the bread can vary, e.g., white or whole wheat; and the sandwiches can be homemade with common crimping techniques similar to pie crust, ravioli, or dumplings using readily available kitchen tools (e.g., a fork ...
Stiff doughs, such as pie crust and sugar cookie doughs, have a liquid-to-dry ratio of about 1:8. Stiff doughs are easy to work in that they only minimally stick to work surfaces, including tools and hands. Also called "high-ratio" baked good. The above are volumetric ratios and are not based on baker's percentages or weights. [12]
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.