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Yellow Biscuits

1� cups flour
� cup yellow corn meal (coarse, preferably "stone-ground")
� cup buttermilk (or more)
6 Tbs butter (in small pieces)
1 Tbs baking powder
1 tsp sugar

Preheat the oven to 425� F.

Grease or spray a baking sheet or aluminum foil.

Stir the flour, the meal, the baking powder, and the sugar together.

Cut the butter in and mix gently until the mixture forms coarse crumbs.

Stir the buttermilk into the flour-meal mixture to form a moist dough (not sticky). Add 1 Tbs more buttermilk at a time, if necessary to make the dough come together.

On a lightly floured surface, knead the dough gently two or three times -- don't overdo it.

Pat it out, gently, to about � inch thick.

Cut the dough into six to eight 2-inch squares or rectangles with swift raking strokes of a sharp knife. (Do not use a dull biscuit-cutter or drinking glass or the edge of a dull knife -- these "cutters" press the edges of the biscuits down and retard their rising.)

Set the dough squares about 1� in. apart on the sprayed or greased baking surface.

Bake the biscuits about 12 to 13 minutes (until lightly browned).

� Vary this basic recipe occasionally by adding � to � tsp cayenne pepper or chili powder, a finely chopped jalape�o, crisp bacon bits, or finely shredded cheese.

� If you already have a favorite recipe for biscuits or muffins, vary it occasionally by substituting corn meal for about a third of your flour.

� If you have a food-processor (a Vita Mix, for example) or a big stand mixer or grain mill, grind your own wheat flour and corn meal not more than a few days before you make them into biscuits.

� Another yummy variation is the sourdough version of these biscuits. Add a cup of sour starter to your flour the night before -- and in the morning, put a cup of the soured flour back into your starter crock. Let the soured biscuit dough have time to rise a bit at room temperature before you bake.

Sure as lot easier to just buy those Jiffy Cornmeal mixes for muffins, or shortcakes.

Reminds me of the "injunears" whose scribbles and scrawls I used to edit, who couldn't engineer their way out of a wet paper sack with a hard, sharp pencil and could only string-together a bunch of "black boxes" from vendors by trial and error to "produce" even a bread-boarded prototype of anything ("Hmmm! Lessee'f this'll do it.")

Well, when I'm out hunting, I have to plan my time judicously between hunting, camp chores,caring for the livestock, and cooking. I like to eat good but sometimes just don't have the time. Those Jiffy mixes and Bisquick go a long way to help.

The line "Preheat the oven to 425� F" in my recipe should've been a clue that I wasn't talking about making corn biscuits in a high-country hunting camp. Nothing in your first reply indicated that you were referring to using corn-meal mixes in a high-country hunting camp.

I guess my oven on my wood burner is a might better than most, as I have a thermometer on it which I can see the heat. You know not everyone is out to get you. I wasn't going to reply to this , but you don't have to be so darn crotchety . I was giving a quick fix that saves a lot of work and it produces about as good a corn bread as can be had.

The mind you're "reading" isn't mine, Amigo! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Well, maybe I've completely misread, misunderstood, and misinterpreted the focus of this forum ("Food, Cooking, and Game Preparation"). I've taken its focus to be outdoorsmen's meals and cooking at home, not in camp.

Cooking in camp is certainly an entirely different proposition -- in much more than the heightened appetites and less-critical taste that outdoor air and activity bring to camp. Cooking at home is much more leisurely, much better equipped, etc.

Let's let Campfire consensus decide:

Do I have it wrong? Is this forum primarily about camp cookery?

Or do we need
� to distinguish our camp recipes and tips from our home recipes in this forum?
or
� another forum ("Camp Cookery") for the very different category of recipes and tips?