Favorite store bought biscuits?

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store bought biscuits

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sacrilege

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store bought biscuits


sacrilege

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You ever had Mary B's?

your loss

Mary B's are awesome.

Mary Bs are probably the best frozen biscuit available 'round here. But it takes all of 5 minutes to make a decent scratch biscuit, and it won't have any trans fats (like the Mary Bs). It takes longer for the oven to preheat than it does to make the biscuits.

2 cups self-rising flour (White Lily or Martha White), 1/4 cup butter (or Crisco, if you're so inclined), 2/3-3/4 cup buttermilk (or milk soured with a little vinegar). Heat the oven to 500 degrees (toaster oven is fine). Put the flour in a bowl; cut the butter into pats and scatter over the flour. Use a pastry blender to cut the butter into the flour, then gently stir in the buttermilk. Stir just until barely combined. Use a scoop to dip out evenly sized drop biscuits onto a baking pan, spaced slightly apart. Bake for 8-10 mins, or until as brown as you like.

You don't want the butter bits to be too small, nor do you want to over mix once the liquid is added. Practice once a week, and you'll soon have a "biscuit hand" and won't need to buy frozen or canned.

Back to the original question: in the early 80s, Pillsbury made a par-baked biscuit under the "1869" brand, sold in the fridge case by the whomp biscuits (canned one). They were great but disappeared from stores by the mid 80s.

And a big mess when instead I can pop a single frozen biscuit out of the freezer, toss it on my stone sheet, and 20 minutes later have a delicious biscuit

You consider ONE dirty bowl, a pan, and a spoon to be a big mess? Damn.

RE: one biscuit at a time, you can freeze the baked homemade biscuits. Split in half, wrap, and you don't even need to defrost--just pop the frozen biscuit into the oven while you pull a shot of espresso. Easy peasy for weekday AMs. And you know exactly what's in 'em. I use whole wheat pastry flour and make awesome WW biscuits...makes me feel better about the butter I use, LOL.

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I've only had Grands

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They are the worst in the frozen category IMO.

The bakery at the old Bruno's in Tuscaloosa used to have the best frozen biscuits. I love both of my grandmothers biscuits but these were really great.

i must have had a bad bag of these recently


i've always liked them, but the last bag i had would not rise at all, and wouldnt get fluffy


they basically stayed the same size that they came out of the bag as, and were like little flat breads or something


i threw the rest of the bag away after trying a couple of different small batches

i just bust out the bisquick. add some mayhaw jelly and butter