bj's SWEET NOTHINGS: A few favorite Recipes

Made the easiest bread last night.

Maple Beer Bread.

It took five minutes to make.

All I did was take 3 cups of flour,

2 TBS sugar and 1 TB of baking powder.

Mix it with 1 12 ounce beer, 2 TBS Maple Syrup and a tsp of salt. Melt 2 tsp butter and put it on the bottom of the bread pan. Dump ingredients in the pan and top with 2 more tsps melted butter and put it in the oven for 50 minutes at 350 degrees. Easy and yummy. That's my sort of recipe.

RECIPE FROM TURNER FARMS

3 INGREDIENT PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
1 cup creamy OR crunchy peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
Mix all together, drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheet.
Make criss-cross pattern on top of ea cookie with fork dipped in sugar.
Bake 350 for 10 minutes.

THIS SITE UNDER CONSTANT CONSTRUCTION...!

My recipe for the BEST homemade biscuits...FROM SCRATCH....

2 cups all purpose flour

2 Tablespoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1/3 cup shortening

3/4 cup BUTTER MILK

(no buttermilk ?...just add a tablespoon (or cap full) of vinegar to regular milk (we called it SWEET MILK when I was a kid...every now and then, I say "sweet milk" and the grands look at me like I have

3 heads !!) ;>)

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The dough needs to be moist...not dry, so if you need to add a little more milk, by all means, DO.

I add enuf to make my dough VERY wet..having to add flour to my hands

to *work* it..

I usually add ONE FULL CUP buttermilk and sometimes, a little more.

THE SOFT SOFT DOUGH IS THE SECRET TO A REALLY GOOD, FLUFFY BISCUIT.
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I like my biscuits baked in a CAST IRON SKILLET

STUFFED BISCUITS

Using canned LARGE biscuits such as GRANDS..

Roll or mash each biscuit out flatter and LAYER ON THE GOODIES.

I love bacon, ham, or sausage, topped with my favorite SHARP CHEDDAR cheese..
a little HOT SAUCE
There is NO RECIPE to this..
Just add the things you love and have on hand...the possibilities are endless, for sure.

I just roll them, put on greased cookie sheet, SEAM SIDE DOWN..
brush with melted butter...ummmm
and bake 400 or so until biscuits are nice and brown.

I think you will like these for a change at breakfast..

scramble some eggs, add a little hot sauce

and

call me...I'll be right over....

especially if you fix me a cup of DUNKIN DONUTS coffee to go with it..

SOUTHERN CORNBREAD....

thin....crisp...buttery...NO SUGAR ADDED !!

Both Mr. Sweet and I grew up on this kind of cornbread...made in a cast iron skillet that's been seasoned well...

We like ours thinner than a lot of people because we both LOVE crispy !!

1 cup yellow cornmeal

1 cup flour

1 egg, beaten

a couple table spoons of melted shortening or bacon drippings, butter

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking powder
enough milk to make a nice thick batter..
(I LOVE Buttermilk Cornbread so this is what I use)

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Pour into HOT skillet that has a tad bit of shortening melted..

Cook at 425 for about 30 minutes...

We use a huge cast iron skillet so it will make the cornbread thinner...IF YOU LIKE YOURS THICKER, use a SMALLER skillet. It HAS to be CAST IRON, tho...