Grandma’s Southern Mayonnaise Biscuits

I’m blog hoppin’ with Jackie and Liz again this week and we are sharing breakfast recipes!  I’m not a big breakfast person – just give me a large cup of coffee and I’m good to go for the morning.  However, this Southern girl can never pass up a good biscuit!  Give me alllll the carbs, mmkay?

So, when I thought about what to share, I instantly knew this was the perfect time to introduce a brand new series on the blog!  I’m cooking through all of my grandmother’s vintage biscuit recipe cards and sharing my journey to find THE biscuit recipe.  Her name was Betty, my Dad’s mom, and she made the best biscuits.  Whenever we would go over to her house she would make a pot roast with homemade biscuits.  I would eat more than my fair share of those delicious, buttery biscuits over there, because they were THAT good.  After she passed, my Mom got her old, handwritten recipe cards and I have some of them now.

I thought I would simply be able to pull out the biscuit recipe, but as it turns out, she had quite a few biscuit recipes.  For this new series, I’ll pick one of my grandmother’s biscuit recipe cards to make once or twice a month; and I’ll share each vintage biscuit recipe with you.  I’m not a food blogger, but you guys always seem to enjoy when I share a recipe on here.  Plus, there’s nothing like a vintage family recipe passed down – especially when it involves homemade Southern biscuits.  The first vintage recipe we’re starting with is her Southern Mayonnaise “Biskets”.  This is the only recipe that she spelled biscuits this way.  I’m not sure why it was spelled that way, but it sure does make my heart smile.  This recipe peaked my interest first, so let’s bake up some good ol’ fashioned Southern Mayonnaise “Biskets”!

Southern Mayonnaise Biscuits

I know, I know – I’ve probably lost you at the thought of trying Southern mayonnaise biscuits – it sounds weird.  However, my grandmother was part of the Greatest Generation.  She grew up in the Great Depression and lived through World War II.  During a time when money was tight, food was hard to come by and rations on food supplies during the war – people had to make do with what they had. Mayonnaise has eggs, vinegar and oil in it – when people may not have been able to afford  butter or eggs, they probably had mayonnaise in their pantry and subbed it out for their missing ingredients.  That’s why cake recipes calling for mayonnaise quickly became popular during this time.

In these particular biscuits, the recipe only calls for a few simple ingredients you probably already have.  There’s no butter or buttermilk used in this recipe, which is a common ingredient found in biscuits.  The vinegar and oil found in the mayonnaise is what replaces the buttermilk and butter in this recipe.  

4 Ingredient Biscuits

This Southern Mayonnaise Biscuit recipe only calls for a few ingredients and I believe they were probably a pantry staple back when my grandmother was growing up.

• Self Rising Flour {The type of flour wasn’t specified in her recipe.  I used the wrong kind of flour {rookie biscuit maker mistake here} and my biscuits were flat!  So use Self Rising Flour to ensure the dough will rise.
• Mayonnaise
• Sugar
• Milk

I plan on making these biscuits again using the Self Rising Flour, just in case, but I don’t think they are the biscuit recipe.  While they were still good despite me using the wrong kind of flour, these Southern Mayonnaise Biscuits did not have the same taste of those I remember.  I’ll make them again because they are simple to make and use basic ingredients, but my search for the biscuit recipe continues.

Between us, my fear is that I will bake through each of her biscuit recipes and never actually find the recipe that I remember.  Perhaps she never actually wrote the recipe down – as the biscuits were something she probably made from memory each time – or maybe the recipe got lost at some point.

Or maybe, just maybe, I’ll solve the mystery by finding the biscuit recipe to share with our family – a recipe that was loved by us all.  I like to think she would be happy to know that her recipes live on through all of us and the memories of those delicious biscuits she always baked.

Now, let’s  see what Jackie & Liz are Cooking:

Jackie at Jackie Can’t Blog: How to Jazz Up a Plain Jane Box Mix

Liz at Living with Liz: 5 Ingredient Homemade Bagels

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