I have been waiting for this book! Jackie Garvin’s Biscuits has just hit the shelves and if you love Southern recipes and biscuits, this is the book for you! Many, many biscuits. Jackie not only wrote this lovely book but is responsible for most of the photos. She is also the voice behind the popular food blog Syrup and Biscuits.
Jackie opens up with a chapter on all types of biscuit creations including Rolled and Patted, Layered, and Cut Biscuits, Rolled and Cut Biscuits, Drop Biscuits, Free Hand, Loaf and Leftover (as if there are leftover biscuits, not in my house). A Gluten Free Biscuit recipe, Dill Buttermilk Biscuits and Raspberry Biscuit Pudding are all included in this chapter. Thanks to Jackie and Skyhorse Publishing for sharing the Sour Cream and Chive Drop Biscuits and Turkey on Sour Cream and Chive Biscuits Recipes. (Click on Recipes link to download the recipe).
The Biscuits in Bakery Shops chapter hits our sweet spot with recipes for Maple Cinnamon Rolls with Buttermilk Maple Icing, Biscuit Doughnuts, Chocolate-Covered Cream-Filled Whole Wheat Biscuits and Resurrection Biscuits – a dessert type biscuit made with canned biscuits. I haven’t bought canned biscuits in a decade but I may have to try this recipe with Andrew one day soon.
Biscuits in a Biscuit Shop includes recipes for Old Fashioned Chicken Salad on Yogurt Biscuit Bread, Ham Biscuits with Honey Mustard Butter, Bacon Cathead Biscuit with Fried Egg and American Cheese and a Loaded Baked Potato Biscuit. The next chapter, Biscuits in a Butler’s Pantry covers recipes for gatherings and parties — Brandied Apricot Jam and Goat Cheese with Tavern Biscuits and Spicy Pimento Cheese Bites — sounds like a party to me!
Including biscuits as a part of your family meals is easier with recipes from the Biscuits in the Everyday Home Meals chapter. Delicious recipes for Homemade Tomato Soup with Cheddar Cheese Thyme Biscuit Croutons and Barbecue Pork on Mashed Potato Biscuit with Cajun Crispy Fried Onions are included. And, of course, there is a recipe for Chicken and Dumplings which looks heavenly!
The final chapters include recipes for Sausage Gravy and Biscuits, Bacon Tomato Gravy, Chocolate Gravy, Peach Butter, Hushpuppies, Cheese wafers, cobblers, tea cakes and more!
This is a book for not only biscuit lovers but Southern food lovers and bakers alike.
GIVEAWAY: Thanks to Skyhorse Publishing I have a copy of this wonderful book for one of you. Please leave a comment here telling me about the best biscuit you ever had. For an extra entry, please visit and like Skyhorse Publishing’s Facebook page – leave a second comment telling me you did so. This giveaway is for U.S. addresses only. A random winner will be chosen on May 18th. Good luck!
Thanks to Skyhorse Publishing and Jackie for this opportunity to review this wonderful book and for sharing a recipe with us. The book can be purchased at Amazon here (affiliate link) and at Barnes and Noble here.
Sadly, I think I’m still waiting to taste that best biscuit ever and perhaps if I had this cookbook, I could stop waiting.
Best biscuit SO FAR is at Handsome Biscuit in Norfolk VA.
I went to visit my friend in Pennsylvania and she made the best biscuits!
Homemade at my aunt’s in North Carolina.
I cannot wait to try Jackie Biscuts. I would love this book.
I know it’s “cool” to like fast food, but when I’m in NC, I love a Hardee’s egg & cheese biscuit. A very guilty treat. Fortunately I’m not often in NC.
Growing up, My mom’s of course….
Betty’s Hungry House in Seneca SC
There is a restaurant in Las Vegas called Hash House a Go Go that has the best house made biscuits & jam (instead of bread & butter). Seriously. The. Best.
Agree! We had the biscuits at HHAGG at Mohegan Sun in CT and they are truly the best. We’re going back Sunday. Yum!
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i am always looking for the best biscuit, right now the recipe I am currently using is the best sa far but Jackie may have better!
Yum!
Light fluffy Angel Biscuits.
Mimi was what my husband, his siblings and their kids called their grandmother, Lucille. Mimi was from Texas, through and through. Her baking powder biscuits were the best I ever had. Would love to win this book, try my hand at biscuits.
Mile high biscuit with fried boneless chicken thigh with sausage gravy. Richest thing I’ve ever eaten.
I would love this!
Light and fluffy angel biscuits.
Buttermilk. Biscuits. In. Georgia. With. Jalapeno. Gravy
Yum!
Best biscuits ever, made by my next door neighbor as a kid……hot from the oven with a slice of smoked ham, cut right from the ham hanging in the smokehouse……
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I like drop biscuits on top of chicken pot pie…. yum
Still waiting for the best ever. They would be crunchy outside, tender and buttery inside. Hope to find them in this book!!
My grandma’s were the best, big and fluffy, good for sopping cane syrup!!
It was a buttermilk biscuit that had a honey butter glaze on top. SOOO GOOOD!
Best biscuit I had was years ago – made from a grandmothers recipe that was verbally handed down to the baker. So delicious.
The best batch of biscuits I ever had were those made in the kitchen of my grandparent’s home in Manteca, CA. My ninety-four year old great-granddaddy was teaching me how to make biscuits the Alabama way; with a pinch of this and just enough of everything else. Best biscuits, best memories…only way you could top it is with a little sorghum and an extra pat of butter!
I love all biscuits!
The best biscuit I have ever had was from PG’s Chicken and Biscuits in Reidsville, NC!!
Grandma’s were the best! Hoping to improve my skills.
My grandmas were the best….but I try lots of different types…..I love biscuits
My grandmother’s biscuits were the best! She made them EVERYDAY! My grandad used to jokingly say he married her for her biscuits. Oh, and she made them in an old wooden bread tray that was very old…might have been her mother’s I’m not sure.
My former mother in law from Dothan, AL, made the best “cathead-sized” biscuits with peanut oil!
Growing up in New Jersey, we would take a 4 Hour drive to the Eastern shore Maryland to see my grandparents. Once in Crisfield we would catch a ferry and ride on the water for another 1.5 hours. Finally we arrived on Smith Island! Grabbing suitcases and walking another half mile brought us to my grandparents home! There waiting for us was Mama Hattie, my grandma, with a plateful of biscuits, butter and milk! Nothing can compare to her rolls because biscuits made with love are always the best!
I’ve been blessed to have eaten many a fine biscuit from my Mom, MIL, both Grands and even my children.
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The biscuits that I’ve had stuck in my mind were Mile High Biscuits that I made years ago. So good!
Best biscuit is/was my Kentucky born & raised grandmother’s. Good ole southern biscuits!!!
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There is a small restaurant here in my town called Pop’s Country Cafe. The owner Steve makes the best biscuits, so good that I sometimes order an extra without the gravy so I can enjoy it with some homemade apricot jam.
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Best Biscuits I’ve ever had were at Greenwoods on Green Street in Roswell, Georgia!
Love me some good biscuits…..hope I win!!!
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Best biscuits I have ever had were growing up. My grammy’s made from scratch homemade biscuits. Yummy.
My Mama used to make the best biscuits, such a great memory.
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When I was a little girl my mother made the best clover leaf biscuitsm, for the church dinners.
My late grandma’s biscuits were the best biscuits ever 🙂
My favorite biscuit is a Hoop Cheese Biscuit! They are so warm and gooey with all the glorious cheese
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Grandma Mary from West Virginia made the best buttermilk biscuits.
I Love all types of biscuits, one of my favorite is the cat head.
The best biscuit I have ever had was made by Jackie Garvin! It was a recipe from the book and it had so many layers it was amazing. I can’t wait to get the book and make them myself.
Lizard’s Thicket Restaurant in Columbia, SC makes a good biscuit. Yum!
Thank you for this post. I should have read it AFTER dinner!
Best biscuits I’ve ever had were made by an older cousin who also owned a bakery in the small East Texas town of Kirbyville. She never measured or weighed any ingredient except by her hand and fingers. Those biscuits were huge, high, fluffy, just a pure taste of heaven and she cooked huge pan fulls at a time. She is gone now and I sure miss her and those biscuits. !!
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No doubt my grandmother’s homemade lard-based biscuits.Never tasted finer. With a pat of butter and a smattering of my homemade strawberry jam, it would be heaven.
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I tried as a youngster to make biscuits and they turned out like rocks. I was married only a short time when I learned from a neighbor ranch woman how to make them correct. Although she didn’t measure anything, they were the best served with fresh butter and sorghum. And 50 years later, that is the only way I know to make biscuits. This book would give me more options.
my grandmother’s scratch biscuits — tender and with melting butter!
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My grandmother made the best little biscuits when she was alive. She would serve them to the grandkids with white Karo syrup mixed with butter. They were delicious!
The best biscuit I ever had was a home made one with fresh made butter and freshly collected honey as well. I think there is nothing better than fresh and natural!
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Jackies 3 ingredient flaky layer biscuits.
Angel flake biscuits with my Mom’s fork tender venison steak and gravy!
The best biscuits I ever had were baked by my grandma who did not use a written recipe, so sadly the recipe died with her many years ago.
Well, my family likes the ones I make, but the best biscuits I had recently that I didn’t make were the angel biscuits at Sunny Point Cafe in Asheville.
The best biscuits I ever had were Angel Biscuits made by a former co-worker. Even though I use the same recipe, mine have never tasted quite as delicious.
Best biscuits I ever had were my Grandma’s in Jacksonville, FL. They were buttermilk biscuits and so light and fluffy. She usually served them at breakfast with sausage (the old fashioned kind – not Jimmy Dean) and cane syrup, along with scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese mixed in the eggs. Divine!
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My mother in law made the best.
One of the all time best biscuits I ever ate were the biscuits my Home Economics teacher, Miss Matthews, taught us to bake. I already knew to have a light hand when making biscuit dough (thanks to my grandma), so I was familiar with baking them. BUT, when we pulled those hot ones from the classroom oven and ate them with butter… they were heaven on a plate~! How I wish I still had her recipe all these decades later.
So, to continue my love affair with all things “biscuit-y”… I would hope to win a copy of Jackie Garvin’s biscuit cookbook~!
My Grandmothers. She taught me to make biscuits either with ice cold buttermilk or cold milk soured with a little lemon juice and left out on the counter for 20 min. Or to use ice cold club soda and to mix any of those 3 things in depending on what you had on hand. Put one of the above into your biscuit dough you have cut your cold butter into.Her other tip was to have a very light hand with the dough fold it over as little as possible to hold together also. Make sure your oven is to temperature before you mix your dough. She taught me to make very good biscuits. What I like on my biscuits; For savory; split hot biscuits top with scrambled eggs containing a couple of tablespoons chive sour cream, NM hot green chile (roasted and diced) and a bit of salt and pepper. Plus one more savory idea; Split hot biscuit top with a thin slice of good quality extra sharp cheddar cheese and a good quality Major Greys’ Mango Chutney with plenty of mango,ginger and sultanas*, *large sweet golden raisins. The extra sharp cheddar cheese chutney combo is really great with a good strong black tea preferably Irish or English. Quick; Good and hot split with butter, and honey or boysenberry preserves.
looks great,my grandmother made the best ones.she was a farmers wife
My Aunt Addie made the best biscuits.
My Aunt Addie made the best biscuits ever.
I really need this book because I can’t recall ever having a really good biscuit.
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I’m still on the hunt. Have yet to have a really amazing biscuit.
I’ve not yet made a good biscuit, but I still try every once in a while. Bet there will be a recipe in this book that works for me.
might sound corny but I’m okay with that. the best made biscuit is the one you make for family and friends, with the time and effort to make it for their enjoyment. there are all kinds of ways to make ’em 🙂