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Buttermilk Biscuits

Grandmere’s Buttermilk Biscuits

During September, National Biscuit Month, I experimented with the Southern biscuit, the center of a perfect breakfast, the side that makes a lunch or dinner memorable. I turned out biscuits with no salt, some with way too much butter, and some with too little. I over-kneaded one batch until they were as hard as hockey […]

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Christmas Tradition: Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Mary Reporting. Sour cream, made by fermenting cream with harmless bacteria, has more uses in the kitchen than topping baked potatoes or nachos. It’s a terrific substitute for milk in cakes. Years ago, I found this coffee cake recipe in the Century of Success Cookbook: The Best Gold Medal Recipes of 100 Years, published in 1979. […]

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Crescent City Chicken Soup

  Every family has a recipe for chicken soup. But the kind said to cure illness is often short on vegetables and chicken. It’s little more than broth, often as pale as the patients forced to eat it.  Not this one. This soup, which begins with a roux, is thick and hearty. Served over rice, […]

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