Re: Re: Buttermilk Biscuits

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Just add a little more buttermilk or other liquid to the biscuits if they

seem too dry. The amount of liquid you need varies because the amount of

moisture in different flours varies. Some batches of flour are just drier

than others. It depends on humidity and factors like that.

Robin

P.S. You can also substitute different liquids for the ones in recipes. For

example, you could substiute buttermilk for the milk in a recipe. The end

result would taste a little different, but the recipe would still 'work.'

From: " _Michele5 " <jrowley8@...>

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Subject: Re: Nourishing Traditions Recipes

Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 05:26:54 -0000

Hi, I just joined this group and was reading through the archives

about the NT cookbook, since finding other people using this was one

reason I sought this group out. I found it amusing that the things

that gave some people trouble are the ones that worked for me. We

make Dutch Baby Pancakes about 3x a week, I just don't add the cup of

water that's called for. I also had the banana bread turn out. I

make mayonnaise at least once a month and it turns out great. I am

still making out family favorites all the time though like spagetti,

tacos, stir fry, etc. I guess I just make sure the ingredients are

more in line with NT. I would like to make more of the recipes in

the book, I'm just not always up to trying something new. I have had

a hard time with some of the recipes also. I made the cream cheese

cinnamon roll type things and they were just sort of awful and I

actually had a lot of trouble with the buttermilk biscuits, the

amount of buttermilk called for to soak them just doesn't seem like

enough. They were so dry, I just didn't know how to alter the recipe

to make it better. We had the chicken rice soup the other day and it

was so awesome and it was so easy to make, that one is going to be a

regular for this winter. Well, I'm just glad to find this list and

hope it inspires me to eat better. Oh, we get raw milk from our

neighbor and I found that sour cream turns out if the milk is heated

first, otherwise it's just smelly and separates and is nothing like

sour cream.

Michele

> Hi, and thanks for the responses! It is good to hear

> that I shouldn't give up on the recipes. It's kind of

> frustrating -- many of the recipes take days of

> anticipation, so the failures seem bigger somehow.

>

> To give you an idea of what I'm having trouble with

> regarding the Nourishing Traditions recipes, I'll get

> specific (as best I can remember).

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