I was at my friends house and was asked to make biscuits--I had never used any biscuit mix before in my life--she had no baking powder and had no idea what cream of tartar was--she always used bisquick--so I went along with that--I have never gone back to scratch biscuits again--bisquick is now a staple in my pantry!!!!

My (now deceased) dad used to make pancakes every Sunday morning without fail.  I remember eating so many back then.  Now I can hardly eat two!  We make the same pancake but often for dinner! 

My first memory of Bisquick is Christmas morning waffles made on my mother's waffle iron she got as a wedding present. To this day I still carry on that tradition. I even have the waffle iron that is now 40 years old. I only use the iron on Christmas morning, but I make the waffles quite often. 

I know like to make the coffee cake recipe. My family likes to eat it in a bowl with milk. 

When I first heard of Bisquick in 1960 or 1970's, I asked what it was.

When I first married I couldn't boil water. Thank heavens for Bisquick.

I made drop biscuits and they were so easy and made my husband

happy. I tried to make biscuits the regular way and you could use them

for hockey pucks.

There was a receipe on the side of the box years ago for cobbler that

you used fruit and bisquick and the bisquick sank to the bottom and

made a crust. Was so good and simple. Could you please see if you

have that receipe still around?

I am 55 years old and I remember vividly my mother making pancakes and drop bisquits with Bisquick. They were soooo good! 

Back in the 1950's, my mom used to make Saturday pancakes with Bisquick.  To this day Bisquick pancakes are the only ones that taste just right to me (also waffles)!

My first memory of bisquick was at my best friends house.  Her mother would make what we called banicks.  She would mix up a batch of bisquick and put it into a hot buttered cast iron pan, cook it on top of the stove until the dough was just getting bubbles on the top, she would turn it and cook another 5 minutes or so.  It is still to this day one of my favorite things.  It can also be done on an open fire and on the grill.

My first recollection of "Bisquick" was on Sunday mornings when my father would make breakfast and that included his famous "Pancakes" made w/Bisquick. That was a morning that we all were happy to get up and get to the table. Now, I enjoy making pancakes, and I also add vanilla extract. When the grandchildren are here, they like for Meme to put their favorite colored sprinkles on their special pancakes, and/or their favorite fruits on top w/whipped cream. Dad is no longer here with us, but when I make pancakes I know he's smiling down on our breakfast table with those wonderful "Bisquick Pancakes".

                                                           myboy28

When we were kids, my mom would make blueberry muffins or pancakes for breakfast using Bisquick and the wild blueberries we'd picked the day before. During strawberry season, Mom would get up before dawn to beat the birds to the wild strawberries in our fields, and we'd have strawberry shortcake for breakfast with sweetened Bisquick drop biscuits and homemade whipped cream! I think Bisquick was the only convenience food my mom used when we were young, as we didn't have a lot of money either. The first thing I remember making was the coffee cake, and now I use it all the time for biscuits, dumplings, muffins, impossible pies and many other recipies I get from this site or from the books sold by the checkout at the grocery store!

No doubt about it growing up my father would make the biggest pancakes.  It would take the entire surface of a 12" cast iron skillet that he has.  They always came out perfect and he could flip them with no problems.  For fourty plus years I have been trying to make pancakes like my father and have never come close.  I have one countless number of cooking awards but I still can't make a pancake like my father.

My first memory of Bisquick was pineapple unside cake from the 1950's packaging. It was my fovorite cake than and is still my favorite cake. 25 years ago I lost the recipe and someone at Bisquick went to the archives to retrive the original recipe. Many thanks.

Strawberry shortcake, made in the pan style. Mom would make that at least once or twice during strawberry season for dinner! Always had some left  for breakfast or lunch the next day, sometimes we'd even do it with fresh peaches.

My mom used to make impossible hamburger pie when we were kids! Today I use it for waffles when my daughter asks to make them on the weekends.

In our family, if you had a friend spend the night, the two of you had to fix breakfast for everyone the next morning.  My two older sisters had already claimed Bisquick pancakes and french toast as their "signature dishes" so I had to figure something else out so my first sleep-over friend and I could be unique.

Wendy and I pulled out the Bisquick box and read all the recipes (which now amazes me cause we were only 7 - I didn't realize I could cook so young!).  We chose Streusel Coffee Cake.  We needed to triple the recipe (to feed 2 adults, 4 teen boys and 4 adolecent girls) but couldn't figure that out so we made it 3 times that morning.  The delicious smell woke the rest of the house up!  We served it with scrambled eggs, coffee and juice.  It was a big hit with everyone.

We made that coffee cake so many times that eventually, not only did we learn to triple it, we had the recipe memorized. 

Now, at 48, I haven't made it for about 10 years.  I will be gettig out the Bisquick and making it today!

PS. Because of learning to cook so many things with Bisquick, I gained knowledge and confidence to try any recipe.  This really helped me weather many a financial storm, even when I didn't have the ease of relying on Bisquick.  Between Bisquick and my Betty Crocker Cookbook (worn, tattered, marked in and loved) I have raised two sons to adulthood who are pretty good cooks and I'm still working on two more that are shaping up to be masters in the kitchen like their brothers.  Thanks Betty!

First memory of Bisquick is making drop biscuits with my mother and my favorite way to use it is as cobbler crust and pancakes, yum....

A friend in my church put a recipe in the church cook book that she called sausage busciut casserole.  I made it, made minor changes and not it's a staple as one of my families favorite meals.

The best memory I have is of the apple crisp , it was printed on the insert in the box. It was simple and delicious  and did not use oats, just brown sugar,cinnamon and bisquick, but unfortunatly i lost this copy in a fire and have been unable to make it for a long time. Boy it was good.

Virginia

I have two, one from Mom and one from Dad that I would love to share :O)                                                                                                                                                                           Mom often made Pototo and Dumpling Soup...the best Dumplings ever...and if she did not have Bisquick she would not make it, no exceptions !!                                                                                                                                              Dad made Breakfast on the Weber Grill most every weekend., with the griddle top accesory..he would always fry bacon or sausage, make fried eggs and always made Pancakes using only Bisquick...never anything else...AND he flavored them differently most every week with things like  Fresh fruit, Peanut Butter, a surprise Jello flavor....you name it we got to try it.  Sometimes those 'surprise' flavors were not so good.  But us four sisters have such great memories of Breakfast made outside on the grill by Dad.                     Thank you for letting me share these special 'first' memories.     

As for me, my favorite way to use it is in recipes such as Chicken Pot Pie...because this is one of my husbands favorite dishes :o))   ( I unfortunatly have never been able to duplicate Mom's Dumplings, even using the recipe on the box, they just turn out sticky and too big for me)     But now that I have read some of your posts, I believe I know what I have done wrong and will certainly be trying Bisquick Dumplings again....                                                                                                                      Thanks and God Bless each of you

Banana bread, still use that recipe today 30 years later. It is still my favorite way to use bisquick. Every now and then will try a new bread recipe but Banana is the best.