4 Ingredient Biscuits – Easy and Fast

Who knew preparing a humble biscuit would evoke so many family memories for me?  My parents grew up in Kentucky and Tennessee where biscuits were a staple of most meals.  One grandmother  made biscuits 2-3 times per day to feed her family of 9.  The other grandmother served buttermilk biscuits with breakfast.

Both grandmothers prepared their biscuits by using a large wooden bowl.  They used the bowl to mix the ingredients.  Next came turning the dough out on a surface for shaping and cutting.  I am the proud owner of the 90-year-old biscuit bowl that was used by both my mother and her mother.  While I don’t use it much to prep my biscuits, it sits proudly on my kitchen counter where it’s often filled with lemons, limes, tomatoes and avocados.

My mother carried on the tradition and fed myself and my four brothers lots of homemade buttermilk biscuits.  Sometimes for breakfast and sometimes with dinner.  Our family didn’t bother with dessert every night.  But what we did have were steaming hot biscuits that we loaded up with butter and honey.  This served as an amazing sweet treat to end our meals.  I can vividly remember putting a pat of butter on my plate, drowning it in a pool of honey, swirling the two together and then dragging hot biscuits through this puddle of sweetness.

I’ve tried over the years to get the family recipe.  Like with most foods they made, the biscuit makers in my family didn’t measure their ingredients.  They relied on sight and feel to guide them.  For this version of biscuits I took some serious short cuts by using a recipe I found on Pinterest 7 Up Biscuits .  When I saw that they contained sour cream and soda I was intrigued.  The first few times I made them they didn’t hold together well.  Now I just take a bit more care to gently knead the dough before shaping and cutting.  Super easy, super quick and super yummy.

Biscuit Ingredients:

My version of a childhood favorite.