Hoe Cake Bread Biscuits

Some people consider HoeCake Bread to be fried dough bread or fried cornbread. To me those are just what they say they are... Fried Bread. HoeCake bread is what my grandmother and great-grandmother used to make after a days labor and the desire to put a home cooked meal on the table.

HoeCake bread is made just like homemade biscuits, but instead of cutting them to shape, you just roll out your dough and bake on a bread pan. When done, you bread off the desire amount, slit open and slather with more butter. Yum Yum

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tbs baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/3 cup Crisco Shortening
¼ cup milk

 

*I just use self-rising flour and omit the baking powder and the salt

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425.

Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Cut in Crisco using pastry blender (or two knives) to form coarse crumbs. Add milk. Mix with fork until particles are moistened and cling together. Form dough into a ball.

Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface and knead gently 8-10 times. Roll dough to a ½ inch thickness. Cut with floured 2-inch round cutter and place on ungreased baking sheet.

*At this point I roll my dough out with a rolling pin, into a oblong oval shape and place it on a the baking sheet. Sprinkle the top with a little flour and bake. About 2 minutes before I remove from oven, I will slather butter all over the top and return to oven.

 

Bake at 425º degrees for 12-14 minutes.

Make 12-16 biscuits or 1 big beautiful Hoe Cake Bread

This is a simple and basic recipe. Once you do the simple steps a couple times, you will quickly be able to throw it together for any meal.