Oh My Lordy! Biscuit Mix

This recipe enables you to put a plate of biscuits on the table quicker than you can pop open a can of "fiscuits" ("fake biscuits"). It gets its name from the day I was making it with two-year-old daughter, Kenna. She was helping me in a way like only a two-year-old can help a mama and she poked a fist into the mixing bowl and flour flew everywhere. She looked at the mess and immediately chirped, "Oh My Lordy!" We were all in the kitchen when it happened and fell apart laughing. Try it out. It's quick. It's easy. And if your little ones are helping you, don't freak out when flour lands in peculiar places. It's worth a good laugh!

4 cups flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 cup oil*
milk to desired consistency (usually around 2 cups)

Preheat oven to 375º. Combine the dry ingredients. Add the wet ingredients. You can use more milk to make drop biscuits and less milk to make your typical granny biscuits that are rolled out and cut with a canning jar lid. I always make drop biscuits because they are so quick to make. After you mix the dough thoroughly, drop mounds onto a greased pan and cook for 20 minutes or until nicely golden on the top. You can vary this recipe to go with whatever you are cooking. If it's a Mexican stew, you may want to add some red pepper to the dry ingredients and some jack cheese to the biscuit dough. If it's spaghetti, try garlic powder in the dry ingredients and mozzarella to the biscuit dough. Get creative!

* if you want to store this biscuit mix to use later, you can mix in shortening instead of oil and it will have a long shelf life. This way, it is exactly like that "other" biscuit mix and you can use it for all of those "other" biscuit mix recipes. However, if you want to eat shortening, you may as well just inject it directly into your arteries and save it the trouble of going through your digestive system.