Center biscuits and Soakies

[WV Sawmiller]

    When my grandkids come up for a visit or stay overnight my wife normally will get up and fix a big breakfast with grits and bacon and biscuits. Since I prefer the center biscuits with no crust around the edge when she puts the pan of biscuits on the table I will reach over and pull out the center biscuit. Sometimes there is 2-3 and I'll get a couple. My grandkids make a big game of "stealing" my biscuit and keeping them or giving them to my daughter who also says she likes them best. I have given many stern warnings about such conduct but it has not seemed to help.

    Yesterday my daughter was talking to us as she was taking our 5 y/o granddaughter to a friends birthday party and they stopped at the drive through of a a Bojangles there in Charlotte NC to get breakfast. In the background when the lady asked if she could take their order I could hear my GD saying "I'd like a center biscuit please." I don't know what the lady at Bojangles thought but I bet my GD got herself a center biscuit.

   While I am thinking of biscuits I remember my MIL and her younger sister would both take the crust off their biscuits and put it in a half filled cup of coffee and let it soak up the coffee. I remember they'd eat their "Soakies" as they called them with a spoon. Since I don't drink coffee I never found out if that was a good idea or not but I guess it was the way they grew up.

[Magicman]

A perfect biscuit for me has crust all of the way around.  Instead of in a pan, PatD bakes biscuits on a flat iron griddle so they are all fairly crusty and perfect.

[WV Sawmiller]

Lynn,

    That sounds like the same style of cast iron skillet my wife uses. All the biscuits have crust all the way around except 1-2 in the middle.

[beenthere]

Must be pan biscuits rather than individual biscuits from a dollop of biscuit dough.

[WV Sawmiller]

   She roughly shapes them in her hand and places them on the flat skillet and pats them down a little more. Where they are close when they rise the edges touch and no crust. The outer circumference is a MagicMan crusty biscuit but the inner side is soft and the inner center one(s) is/are soft all the way around.