Monthly Archives: June 2014

Here at the farm, we like to stay active, get fresh air, and eat the freshest fruits and vegetables we can find. With that being said, what is the famous phrase? Work hard, play hard eat everything? It was probably about 9:00 at night, we had just settled in for some late night television and began our Friday tradition of speed flipping between Discovery channel and A&E. Amongst the crime solver stories and trips to Singapore, there it was. The biscuit commercial. The one where that strange, blue eyed, dough man wearing nothing but a scarf and a chef’s hat convinces you to buy his roll of ready to bake biscuits. You know the guy, his baked good are usually so good that you lose all sense of etiquette and stick your finger right into his stomach until he “hoo-hoo’s”? Well it’s time to show that little guy that YOU wear the pants in your kitchen. Scarf and hat optional. We call these our [almost] healthy buttermilk biscuits. The “almost” reminds us that there is significantly less butter in them than many recipes I’ve found and they also contain 3 tablespoons of Erdenheim Farm honey. A lot of biscuit recipes we’ve tested use the drop method. Similar to chocolate chip cookies, where you spoon the batter out onto a tray for baking. This recipe borrows a technique from puff pastry dough. And don’t worry, it’s the easy technique. After your dough is rolled out, you’ll fold the sheet like you fold a standard 8 x 11” paper for an envelope. It is also important that you work quickly and keep all the ingredients as cold as possible. In recipes like this, the butter acts as [...]