Cornmeal Bacon Biscuits Recipes

CORNMEAL BISCUITS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar. Using your fingers or a pastry cutter, cut butter into flour mixture. Using a wooden spoon, stir in 3/4 cup buttermilk until the mixture holds together.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out dough to a 1-inch thickness. Using a 2-inch-round cookie cutter or a drinking glass, cut out eight rounds, and place on prepared parchment; discard scraps of dough. Brush tops of biscuits with remaining tablespoon buttermilk. Bake until golden and puffy, about 12 minutes. If desired, spread with butter or honey. Serve warm.

CORN BISCUITS WITH BACON

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Cook bacon until crisp. Transfer bacon to paper towels and drain. Crumble bacon; reserve 2 tablespoons bacon drippings.
• Sift flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder and salt into bowl. Add butter and rub in using fingertips until mixture resembles coarse meal. Whisk eggs, buttermilk, cumin and reserved bacon drippings in small bowl. Add to flour mixture and stir until moist dough forms. Mix in bacon.
• Turn out dough onto lightly floured surface. Knead gently until smooth. Roll out to 3/4 inch thickness. Cut out biscuits with round cookie cutter. Place on greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with peppercorns.
• Bake until golden brown and puffed, about 25 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

CORNMEAL BACON BISCUITS

Steps:

• Stir together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, sugar and salt.
• Melt shortening and butter together and add to flour mixture.
• Stir in crumbled bacon and add milk gradually.
• (Consistency needs to be just thick enough to spoon out easily) Drop batter from tablespoon onto vegetable oil sprayed baking sheets.
• Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes, or until golden brown.

BACON-CORNMEAL BISCUITS

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Spray baking sheet with vegetable cooking spray.
• 2. Combine flour, cornmeal brown sugar, and red pepper, if using, in a medium bowl; cut in margarine, butter, or other replacement, with a pastry blender, until mixture resembles coarse meal. Cook, drain, and chop turkey bacon. Add in bacon. Then, add buttermilk, stirring with a fork, just until dry ingredients are moistened.
• 3. Sprinkle the 2 tsps. flour evenly over work surface. Turn dough out onto floured surface, and knead 8 to 10 times. Roll dough to 1/2 inch thickness; cut into rounds with a 2 inch biscuit cutter.
• 4. Place biscuit rounds on prepared baking sheet. Bake 14 minutes, or until biscuits are golden. Serve warm. Makes 15 biscuits. Nutrition: One biscuit 98 cal, 3.1 g fat (0.6 g sat), 2 mg chol, 316 mg sod, 14.8 g carb, 0.4 g fiber, 2.5 g protein using the margarine and nonfat buttermilk. Replacement fat and lowfat buttermilk may change the nutrition values.

CORNMEAL DROP BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Whisk to combine. Add the butter, and, using a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut it in until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Add the milk, and stir until just combined.
• Spoon 10 mounds, about 1/2 cup each, onto a baking sheet 1 inch apart; bake until the biscuits start to brown, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven; cool on a wire rack. Serve warm.
• Cut 6 ounces bacon into 1/2-inch pieces, and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp, about 4 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to a paper-towel-lined bowl. Add 1 small onion, cut into 1/4-inch dice, to the hot fat in the skillet; cook until translucent, about 3 minutes. Drain on paper towels. Add the bacon and onion to the butter and flour mixture after the butter has been cut in. Proceed with the recipe.