AND WE ATE BISCUITS - YES JOE'S BISCUITS

And let them eat biscuits, or is that cake? Well for those who have eaten my husband Joe's biscuits, they know his biscuits are way better than cake any day.  Yes, we had decedent homemade biscuits for supper. 2 1/2 to be exact with apple butter, honey and butter.  And still 145 calories under my goal for the day.  I love this diet

So the recipe is going on the blog.  No, they are not healthy but every once and a while you just need them.  And, this is also for all those we work with who have been wanting the recipe.  Probably tomorrow I'll put the video on here of him making them, but for tonight its just the recipe. He made them a little different tonight, a little smaller and a little less oil, to help with the calories but the video has the original recipe.  These we had tonight were just as good as the original

Joe's Homemade Biscuits (lighter version)
\4 tbsp canola oil
4- 4.5 cups Self Rising Flour approx
2/3 cup butter flavor Crisco
4 cups butter milk (full fat)

Heat oven to 475. Pour oil into bottom of cast iron skillet or biscuit pan.  Place pan in oven and let heat while mixing dough.

Cut Crisco into 4 cups of  flour until crumbly.  Add the buttermilk in increments and stir until well mixed. The consistency you want is slightly sticky but not runny.  Add more flour if needed to get desired consistency

Take hot pan out of oven (carefully). Powder hands with flour (you need to do this every time before you take a pinch) and pinch off approx an egg size amount and shape into biscuit shape (doesn't have to be perfect). It should make 17 biscuits. Oh, and again, drop the biscuits in the pan very carefully. The pan and oil are very hot.

Cook 6 min on bottom rack, then 6 min on top rack then place under the broiler for a few minutes until brown.
Take a stick of butter and smear approximately 1 tbsp over entire batch.

If you come up with 17 biscuits the calories are 200 per biscuit.  Well worth the calories. Trust me!