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What's your first memory of Bisquick and what's your favorite way to use it?

My mom made dumplings all the time when we were growing up, probably because it was a dollar stretcher for the food budget. We loved the dumplings along with drop biscuits and pancakes she also made with little effort.

Patty at Betty Crocker
5/22/2008 12:42 PM
161 Replies to What's your first memory of Bisquick and what's your favorite way to use it?

I'm not Boys Club, but have been making the Red Lobster biscuits for a number of years - here's the recipe I have:

Ingredients:
2 cups Bisquick. baking mix
2/3 cup milk
1/2 cup cheddar cheese -- shredded
1/4 cup margarine or butter -- melted
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450. Mix baking mix, milk and cheese until soft dough forms; beat vigorously for 30 seconds. Drop dough by spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8-10 min. or until golden brown. Mix margarine and garlic powder; brush over warm biscuits before removing from cookie sheet. Serve warm. Makes 10-12 biscuits.

Per serving (2 biscuits if you make 12): 177 Calories; 6g Fat (32% calories from fat); 4g Protein; 27g Carbohydrate; 4mg Cholesterol; 480mg Sodium Food Exchanges: 1 1/2 Starch/Bread; 1 Fat

7/7/2008 5:09 PM

As a newly wed in the 1980's, I used Bisquick often especially in making the Impossible Pies.  One day it was snowing and I realized that I did not have any bread/rolls in the house for our sloppy joe's.  I pulled out my trusty (I still have this) Little yellow Bisquick cookbook and found a recipe for popovers. I made them instead of biscuits as I was short on time and it worked out great!   AlsoBig Smile  My daughter's favorite recipe as a child was the impossible Brownie Pie!

7/7/2008 5:38 PM

My mother was a traditionalist who did everything from scratch, but my father would mix up Bisquick pancakes to take to the country and cook on the grill with a long skillet that fit the grill. Everybody in the camp site would come to our area for breakfast that Dad  started at 5 am for the area ranger. Everyone in the neighorhood would bring their eggs, bacon, sausage, and whatever to be cooked at our grill. People would throw money on the table when they had nothing to bring. It paid for our vacation and my mom got a break from cooking. I won't even say what happened for dinner!!!!

7/7/2008 6:10 PM

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7/7/2008 8:06 PM

I did the same thing when my kids were little, during the 80's.  Sretching the dollar by adding more water than called for and making the pancakes thin, didn't matter, my kids gobbled them up!  I would make them "baby" (silver dollar) pancakes. Now, I make them a little thicker, more cake-like and my grandkids gobble those up... They love "Nana's pancakes".    I still use a banana nut bread recipe I learned from 7th grade Home-Ec class,using Bisquick.  To this day, people rave over my banana bread.  At christmas I will add dried cranberries and such.   Dumplings.. yummmmm (I keep the lid on for 10 minutes and off for 10 minutes, never had a problem with them being mushy),making biscuits? of course!  sometimes drop or sometimes nice and neat using a cutter.    Oh, Another staple at breakfast when my kids were little was coffee cake.. another treat, they would fight over how many pieces everyone got....  My biscuit cookbook that I have and still use, was purchased by sending in so many boxtops and including shipping charges, probably in the mid-70's.  So many uses, so tasty, one of the most perfect kitchen helpers around! 

7/7/2008 8:47 PM

My grandmother was wheel chair bound, but we did love to cook together.  We made the breakfast cake that had some kind of struesel topping, I believe there was coconut also.  We had warm cake and milk or juice for breakfast on Saturday and if there was enought left on Sunday also.  Needless to say, we frequently had a friend or two drop in just around the time we usually took the cake out of the oven.

7/8/2008 1:00 AM

 Great question that brings back great memories.

Back in the old days, my mother made the usual shortcake biscuits, pancakes and dumplings with Bisquick that everyone loved. She also made a wonderful desert with apples that she called apple rolls. It was made with bisquick dough rolled out in a rectangular shape. Then put sliced apples on the dough, add a mixture of sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar; whatever you usually mix with apples when making pie. Roll up in jelly roll fashion and cut into thick slices. It will be messy but that is ok. Place rolls, tightly  packed  into  baking pan and bake at 350 degrees until dough is browned and apples are soft. Serve with a warm , plain sugar sauce made with sugar, cornstarch, water, vanilla and a pat of butter. YUMMY!! Another great dish from Mom that I have never seen printed is a creamy casserole with salmon pieces, potato cubes, frozen peas, chopped onion and Bisquick dumplings baked on top.

Sorry, these dishes are not in usual recipe format but they have never been written down and are easy to recreate according to each cook's preference for ingredients as well as amounts. 

7/8/2008 9:44 AM

 My Mom making chicken and dumplings. It smelled and tasted sooo good! I have an old Bisquick recipe booklet that was my mom's. I guess she must of sent away for it. It's an oldie but goodie.

7/8/2008 2:52 PM

My first memory of Bisquick is the Velvet Crumb Cake that my mother made as my siblings and I were growing up.  It is delicious and quick to fix. The recipe was on the side of a Bisquick box.  I make it still -and often.  I also like the whipping cream biscuits and pancakes.  Yes AtlantaPat

7/9/2008 4:25 AM

Definitely Dumplings ♥ 

Add eggs milk a pinch or two of garlic powder and some sugar

Fold carefully

Drop spoonfuls

Simmer uncovered 15 minutes covered 15 minutes.

ENJOY
 

IF I CAN'T DO IT--IT CAN'T BE DONE!

7/9/2008 9:22 AM

SmileMy first memory of Bisquick is when my mom made my brother and I pancakes on the weekends.  As a working mom, weekends were the only time the entire family could get together for breakfasts.  I appreciate that, now, since both parents are deceased. 

My favorite uses for Bisquick are pancakes/waffles, coffee cake, biscuits.

Bonnie 

 

7/11/2008 1:37 PM

PA
7/17/2008 7:31 AM

My first memory of using Bisquick was making dumplings for chicken or beef stew. Now the way that I use Bisquick is for making pancakes and biscuits for strawberry shortcake.

7/17/2008 8:10 AM

Many, many years ago I would make a fruit cobbler for my children using a shortcake dumping recipe off the Bisquick box.  I would love to have that dumpling recipe again.  My children still remember picking blackberries and my baking them a blackberry cobbler.  These were dumpling dropped by spoon on top of the berry mixture.  Can anyone help me find the recipe?  Thanks

7/23/2008 11:29 AM

Without a doubt, it's Bisquick pancakes and waffles.  I still (after 40 years) don't/can't use anything else better. Light and fluffy - who would want to fold in beaten egg whites when you have something this delicious.  More recently, in the last 10 years or so, "garlic/cheese bisquicks" (My personal name for them), at least and maybe better than Red Lobster.

7/23/2008 12:34 PM

I didn't read the Boys Club posting or this one from Ku before I posted my note but my "Garlic/Cheese Bisquickies" are a little different than Ku's

First of all, I use a muffin tin (preferably non-stick, sprayed with PAM and do not use paper liners)

Ingredients are basically the same as biscuit recipe on the box, but I roll the biscuits in a ball (for 12 biscuits) - I poke a large hole in the middle and put a little chopped fresh garlic (I buy the jar) and grated SHARP cheddar in the hole and then close it up again and put in muffin tin.  Fill all tins.  I melt about 1/4+ cup melted REAL BUTTER and spoon gently about 1/2+ tsp over each "bisquickie". Put in pre-heated (make sure it has reached target temp 425) and bake 14-18 min at 425. Remove from muffin tins as soon as they come out of oven (may have to loosen slightly with a fork) and turn out into lined basket.  These are not for counting calories - enjoy as butter runs down your hand.  Bev

7/23/2008 12:53 PM


My sister used to make a pie called "Makes its own crust coconut pie".  I later learned it was one of Bisquick's impossible pies.  It was so easy to make and delicious!!

7/25/2008 10:48 PM

my favorite and first memory of Bisquick , was my mother making chicken and dumplings. As the middle child of eleven children, my mother had to find ways to spread the vittles and keep us happy, as well as full. We didn't always have the chicken, but usually the broth, plus mom's secret ingredients. My second most favorite, was my older sister making "homemade cinnamon rolls" out of bisquick mix. You could smell them cooking, as we entered the house from a long day at school. I too, made use of bisquick with my children who are both grown, and now with my grandchildren. They smile at the smell of Grandma P's cinnamon rolls, chicken and dumplings, and of coure beef vegetable casserole, smothered with bisquick dumplings. I could go on and on, but just wanted to share my Bisquick experience.

7/28/2008 2:28 PM

Hello, AtlantaPat:

Would you kindly share the Velvet Crumb Cake recipe, please. 

 Mahalo!

 

7/28/2008 9:15 PM
I hope this is also an answer to Sandy who wants her dumplings to come out fluffy not gummy. Follow the directions exactly as printed on the box. When it says cover the pot, cover it, and don't look. When it says take the lid off and cook for however many more minutes, do it. Guaranteed they won't be gummy. But the liquid must be just shy of bubbling before you put the dumplings in. I actually cook the chicken and about half an onion skewered with a toothpick in water for about an hour or more, remove them both tocool it while I add carrots and celery cut up and simmer until they are tender. Then I put the cut or pulled or chicken pieces back in, bring it up to heat and then do the dumpling thing following the I have three favorite memories that many others have also mentioned. Drop biscuits that my mom made for strawberry shortcakes. She actually split the warm biscuits and spread them with butter before putting on mashed and sugared fresh strawberries and juice. I didn't like whipped cream as a child so I had mine plain. I can still taste it. Dumplings she used in chicken with dumplings, and as an empty nester, I make a big batch and actually freeze it in individual plastic containers and then reheat it in the microwave. Believe it or not, the dumplings stand up to the freezing and nuking. And my very very favorite, Velvet Crumb cake with the coconut broiled on top. In the past I tried other brands that claimed that they were the same as... but they never were.
7/28/2008 10:41 PM

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