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Mountain Country Cat Head Biscuits As Big As A Cat...
 
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes
Cook Time: 15 Minutes
Ready In: 15 Minutes
Servings: 8
DELICIOUS
Ingredients:
cat head biscuits (as big as a cat’s head)
2 cups of flour
1/4 teaspoon of baking soda
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
5 tablespoons of lard or shortening
about 1 cup of buttermilk
sift the dry ingredients together and cut in the lard or shortening. add enough buttermilk to make a soft dough.
pinch off about a lemon sized ball of dough for each biscuit and pat out with your hands.
bake for 12 – 15 minutes at 450 degrees or until the tops are golden brown.
remove the biscuits form the oven and put butter on the tops of the hot biscuits to coat.
Directions:
1. Picture is of a big ole plate of 'cats' full of good ole' Virginia Ham.
2. Often times the cooks would take treats like this out to the field
3. with big jugs of iced tea and kegs of water for the hard workers
4. in the fields about mid afternoon.
5. Some cooks would get sort of silly and make them in a cats head
6. shape.
By RecipeOfHealth.com