Playing with Biscuits

    Being a fairly busy college student I don't always have time to make everything I'd like to make from scratch when cooking dinner. As a result I was often finding myself buying and making biscuits from a tube, something I was hoping to avoid out of a desire to be more aware of what's in some of the things I eat.
    One solution to the tube problem is frozen ready made biscuits, you just buy a bag, throw as many or as few as you want on a baking sheet and bake them up. This is a great idea. Saves me a lot of time and is closer to what I wanted, but they still came from the store, and biscuits are pretty simple. All you need to make a good biscuit is some fat, some flour, and some liquid; and sometimes those ingredients get merged together to make it even simpler. I decided that I'd duplicate these freeze and bake biscuits so that I could make them at home and have them whenever I wanted a hot homemade biscuit.
    They really ended up being pretty simple after some tinkering with the recipe, and a lot of batches of tasty biscuits that just weren't quite up to snuff.

• 2 1/4 cups "Pancake and Baking mix" - comes in a yellow box, you've probably got it lying around
• 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda - you can leave this out if you really want, but if you do they won't rise well
• 1/3 cup (5 1/3 Tbs.) Butter
• 2/3 cup Milk - I suppose you could use buttermilk or something like that but I find the "mix" above does a pretty good job of that

1. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly
2. Cut in butter
3. Mix in the milk
4. Mix by hand until the dough comes together, you may need to add more "mix" by spoonfuls until it stops sticking to the bowl and your hands
5. Roll out to 1/4-1/2 inch thickness and cut into rounds; you want to try and get as many rounds out of each rolling as the more you roll it the more melted the butter gets and the tougher the biscuits will get
6. Bake any that you want to bake immediately at 450° for 8-10 minutes
7. Any that you don't want to bake immediately, put on a plate and place in the freezer. Leave them in the freezer until they are frozen solid, then put them in a plastic zip-top bag; if you through then into the bag before they freeze completely they will turn into a big lump which is just a mess.

    When you want to bake any of the frozen ones, just take the ones you want out and put them on a baking sheet while you preheat the oven. Once the oven is preheated you can bake as per the normal directions. Hope that someone else out there finds this useful.