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From: WJFreeman <>
Subject: Re: [ML] Cat's head biscuits and ' Fat back ' bacon
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:26:26 -0500
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I don't know what everybody else calls them, but I always thought
cathead biscuits were like the large ones my younger sister used to make
for supper sometimes.


These were rather on the large side so that the cooked biscuit was truly
about the size of a cat's head.


Now as much as I used to joke about them at the time, it was a
substantial piece of bread to eat with a meal such as supper.


My Mother whose favorite food was bread and butter or buttered toast and
jelly, or a buttered biscuit and jelly, never said a word about the size
of Judy's biscuits, that I can recall hearing. I think she was just
glad to have them ready when she got home from work. By the way,
Mother's biscuits were somewhat smaller and on the same scale would be
"kittenhead" biscuits, I suppose.


Neither my Mother or Judy ever rolled out the biscuit dough and used a
cutter, I think. The dough was made up and then shaped by hand and laid
in the old black iron skillet to bake in the oven. This is the same way
I still make biscuits.


I eschew store bought ready to heat "bik'its", it doesn't take more than
about 7-8 minutes for me to make a pan of biscuits and have them in the
oven to cook (15-17 minutes), using White Lily Self-Risin' of course,
and everything cleaned up and put away in the process. The net result
is so, so, so much better than anything you can get ready made, frozen
with all those stabilizers and slightly bitter tasting ingredients found
in the commercial heat'n'eat types.


I think that this was also about the time, my father changed jobs and,
he, too, was home for supper. He liked that sort of thing very much as
he was country through and through. I think I was the only one that
probably ever said anything about the size of those biscuits.


Walter

Lil Ellen55 wrote:

>What is a "cat's head biscuit"?
>
>Ellen
>
>On 1/31/07, <> wrote:
>
>
>>Jeannie , you often talk about the good old days, and eating breakfast
>>with your Ma in the leanto kitchen of her big log house . Do you remember
>>having good old 'fatback ' bacon rolled in flour and fried a golden
>>brown served with lots of brown thickening gravy ? Surely was some fine
>>eating with those big ol cat's head biscuits for breakfast !
>>
>>
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