How to Make the Best Easiest Biscuits PLUS 2 Other Quick Breads with the Same Recipe! 

I was having a pretty bad day because somebody made me mad and I couldn't just let it go. I have been stewing over it all day. This just turned my day around. Thank you!

Just stumbled on your channel. I’m from Appalachia, Virginia. Moved away when I turned 18. Back then, I was ashamed of my “raising” but today I’m proud and grateful. It made me the person I am today.

I made biscuits using your recipe today and couldn't be happier. I'm disabled and my cooking is limited to things that only take about 10 minutes to put together, and these didn't take that long. And they taste just the way biscuits should. Thank you.

I love to cook without a recipe. I get bored and tired with cooking for my family. Watching these videos reminds me of the importance of preparing food and keeping the family healthy and happy. I think of my granny feeding her family in WW2 England. Thanks for the reminder that it is good work to feed a family well.

My mother came back from visiting my cousin and started making biscuits with sharp cheddar, bacon, and chives. Oh, my goodness. They're heavenly. We just make a regular biscuit recipe, throw in a handful of shredded cheddar, chop the bacon after it's crispy, and cut the chives with scissors. The amounts for the cheese, bacon, and chives are just whatever fits when you fold them in. We love them!!

I just tried your biscuit recipe. I took courage and kneaded the mix until I was sure they would be tough. They turned out beautiful and tender. Luckily I had some applesauce in the frig and some cold milk. Best biscuit I’ve had in years! Tomorrow, I’m making cheese biscuits. Thank you.

I'm 73 years old and made your biscuits for dinner tonight! They were served with previously cooked great northern beans! Thank you so much for your tutorial which gave me confidence to try making biscuits again after failing 60 years ago! So good! 😋

One of my daughter in-laws said “ I had no idea you could make biscuits with flour 🤦🏻‍♀️ My poor son lol

Mam this is so much like my mommas house. I miss her and the food that I grew up eating. I feel as a country we have lost most of what is truly food that is not only the best but food that tells a story and has carried a many of man and women through our daily living. Thank you for probably the best food I have ever seen. ❤️🌲🌲🌲❤️

If the biscuits are even half as good as your chocolate oatmeal no bake cookies then winners they are. Very happy to hear that the shower for Cory and Austin's upcoming wedding was a success. The help of good friends surely made the day's success even more grand.

My mom always called the last biscuit the "wad" biscuit because it was the last little wad of dough. Greetings from a beautiful warm North Mississippi.

Those biscuits are beautiful, Tipper! They look like something you’d see on the cover of Southern Living magazine. Wow 🤩 ❣️🇺🇸

I ve never seen anyone else make chocolate pies like that! My Daddy told me how to make them when I was a little girl, abt 55 yrs ago! He ask me to make them for him!!! They are my favorite , next to peach fried pies made with dried peaches!!!!

My mom and older relatives made cat head biscuits with gold medal self rising flour, crisco and buttermilk.They mixed it with their hands and baked on a cookie sheet after forming with their hands. Never had any that good.

I remember Granny talking about getting foundered when she was a young girl. Trust me…I could founder myself on all those delicious biscuits and hand pies!! I’ve never seen the chocolate one. I need to give that a try. Thanks Tipper!! I’ll be waiting for more of Dorie tomorrow!! 😊

What a wonderful recipe! I can't wait to try it. It's been a while since I made homemade biscuits, but I have a biscuit cutter my dad made in grade school for my grandma. She gave it to me and I treasure it. He passed away Sept. 10th at age 92. Thank you!

We always called that last biscuit the baby biscuit and the baby in our family always got it too. I’ve never seen biscuits made this way, but I’ll definitely be trying it.

I do most of the cooking in my house and have for most of my adult life. I am 71 now and I still love to cook. You cook like my mom taught me. I love your videos.

I'm old school from Kentucky around mammoth cave area. I always had good country meals fixed. My mom taught me how to cook at a very young age. She said I wanted to learn, so she did. I'm so thankful for that. All women should know how to cook.

This is timely! I'm making supper for friends on Sunday. I plan to make garlic/chive/cheddar Biscuits!

We always called the leftover dough a dough boy. My Grandmother taught me to make biscuits with just self rising flour and buttermilk. You have to put just a small amount of grease or vegetable oil on top of each to help them brown. Really good with bacon grease on top. She would also only use Hudson Cream flour.

Thank you for this! It reminds me of my Mamaw’s cat head biscuits. She kept a bowl of flour and would make each batch of biscuits in a little well in that bowl. She didn’t roll them out, she’d just ‘pinch’ them off and put them on the cookie sheet. She’d put them close together so that they ended up being square, and then turn them out onto the plate. They were amazing! Golden brown on the outside and light and fluffy inside! We’d break one up in pieces and smother it with sausage gravy. Like you said, I could never make them like she did. (Although we can’t get the right flour in WI!)

Tipper just had to watch this again !!! Thought of my Moma how good she would cook for us Girls !!! Called her on up and said Hi to her durning the video !!! Miss that Moma a lot it has been over 10 yrs since I last saw her !!! She lives way far aways now to go and see her but I do call and talk to her !!!

Ms Tipper you never fail to bring back memories, God Bless you and Thank you for sharing. Mom always made DROPPED BISCUITS , HOUND EARS, DUMPLINGS & ROLLED BISCUITS from the same recipe💞. That’s a WELL SEASONED (LOVED) pan 👌🏻💞

Even though I'm a northerner born and bred, I have always loved biscuits. I've tried all kinds of recipes and techniques, but lately I've come up with a new way to make them. Instead of butter or shortening, I use 2 oz. grated cheddar cheese, 1 cup self-rising flour, and enough milk (sometimes plain yogurt) to form the dough. I used to pat them and use a biscuit cutter but pulling pieces and patting them into rounds works just fine. I bake them in cast iron (ungreased) at 450 F until golden brown. They are surprisingly delicious. My cast iron is well-seasoned of course. Cast iron is another Southern tradition I came to later in life but most everything I cook is in cast iron.

I learned my drop biscuit recipe that I eat with tomato gravy from my Mom and my light, fluffy buttermilk biscuit technique from my Grandma. It's two completely different animals, no doubt. Grandma would only knead hers 3, maybe 4 times. Any more than that and they're paper weights. After kneading she gently formed a ball and pinched each biscuit off in a peculiar way using only her thumb and index finger in an " OK " sign. I can get close, but they are still not Grandmas biscuits. She had more than 65 years of practice to my 20.

I love the idea of the baked hand pie. My mind is going a kajillion mph with all the possibilities for fillings - both savory and sweet!

I have made these simple biscuits SO MANY TIMES now, since learning them from you. It's so nice to have such an easy option, especially when time gets away from me (last minute). I am thrilled to have a couple more easy variations, will definitely be adding some cheese etcetera and I know my husband's going to love them. THANK YOU TIPPER!

I could watch you make biscuits all day🤗

I absolutely LOVE how genuinely you enjoy the food you make :) Warms my heart!

In the French section of Switzerland, they have a similar bread with Swiss chocolate bar inside, it's called" Pain Au Chocolat ", to me it's addictive.

I always give the baby biscuits to my dog. She's a 6 month old German wirehaired pointer and just loves my biscuits. Thank you for the simple recipe, mine is pretty involved. I was looking for something easier for when I'm in a rush!

You could drizzle icing on the top or the sweet hand pies for a dessert, especially for company. What a treat, and different than a usual dessert.

One of each of today's quick breads and I'd have a meal. Yum. 🤠

We have always called the last mashed together biscuit the mother in law biscuit lol. I don’t know why, I wish I could ask my sweet grandma. Thank you for your videos, they bring my family joy.

I loved watching you make the biscuits. We really didn't have them growing up except, and this is a big except, when my mother made a stew. They she'd make what we called "dropped biscuits" that she dropped into the stew. They were delicious.

I ❤️your baking sheet! I have a lid and a cake pan that was part of a cooking set I bought 50 years ago for my “hope chest”. They were coated with the avocado green color which has since totally disappeared! They are “wonky “ too and are so dear to me 🥰

Great baking tutorial for us nonbakers. I'll definitely try these recipes. Especially the garlic cheese biscuits. Thanks.

Yes! I've been dying for some good biscuits. Thank you for this recipe!

I have tried out your biscuit recipe four or five times now and it is wonderful! I even made some tiny little biscuits with a salt shaker lid… I was thinking they would be perfect for an hors d’oeuvre kind of thing. I can’t wait to try the garlic cheese biscuits and the pies! Thank you so much!

I learned how to make biscuits from watching you and it changed my life. Well, it at least saved me from ever making bad biscuits again.

Thank you! Love biscuits but never knew there was such an easy way to make good ones. You're a great teacher!

Oh I wish I was born over there with a grandma like yours and a mama like yours to have sisters like you I'm here in San Antonio Texas wishing I was there. My son's dad passed away in 2018 I always wanted to move to the country we were going to,but things happen ,if I had a a chance to move out there I do it 😃😌❤️

Ohh, Tipper. I wish I lived in a house close to your holler. I'd bring you the flour and cream to make biscuits for me.😃 Watching you enjoy those yummy baked goodies was a killin me here. 🤣🤣 You sure can make food look WONDERFUL the way you eat. My Mama always told me to cover my mouth after I took a bite of something and keep my hand over my mouth while I chewed. I was a grown up adult woman before I could stop doing that. I just love the facial enjoyment I see when you eating those biscuits. Thank you so much. This was a great way to end my day. ❤

I make my biscuits this way also or sometimes I use shortening n buttermilk, cut out sometimes or rolled .... Our family loves homemade biscuits, dumplings, fried pies, etc. I love watching your videos ❤

My ex husband's family were from Tennessee and they taught me how to make biscuits using buttermilk. Oh, they were and are so good. They taught me how to make fried corn and fried green tomatoes. Wonderful down home cooking! Fried pies too.

Watching you makes me think of my mother...she taught me to use a great cutter for biscuits. When she used a tin can of vegetables she would save the tin. Cut off both the top and bottom of the tin can, take off the paper label if present, and wash the can...POW! You have a great biscuit cutter! I love the South. You may take the Cook out of the South, but you can NEVER take the South out of the Cook!!!

Gosh, these all look delicious 😋…I’m definitely going to try the cheddar garlic biscuits, especially when I make my chicken casserole….I usually use a box of the Red Lobster cheddar bay biscuit mix….to put on top of my simple chicken casserole….I bet these will be even better…And those hand pies looks mighty good too…🤗

The biscuits and other recipes look delicious! So easy......my favorite kind......once you master the texture of the dough. I will surprise my family. And with sausage gravy. 😋😋. Thank you for the tutorial and sharing your recipes. 🌺🌺

Thank you so much for showing us how to make biscuits, and the hand pies. I did not grow up with a mother who did those things. She worked full time and was gone all day. I learned so much today! I appreciate seeing it done. Thank you SO much!

Right on time! I found some White Lilly flour today and have some heavy whipping cream already. Will try your biscuit recipe in the morning along with my tomato gravy. Thank you Tipper

Tried the biscuits and everyone loved them. Reminds me of mom's 100%. We experimented with all sorts of recipes with loads of butter, buttermilk, cream, shortening, you name it but yours, which is apparently like mom's, we found to be the best! I believe in part because its what I'd call a clean, tasty biscuit. White, soft, fluffy, and without all the excessive fats & oily fingers. Of course that stuff has its place and is tasty but not necessary in biscuits. Not only are these good they are better for you. At least compared to the high ranked recipes we've tried. Yeah, we're sticking to yours. Keep up the great entertainment. Hope your family has fun doing the videos and be rewarding. Editing can be a handful. You do such a good job A to Z

Thank you SO much for a beautiful memory! My great grandmother made biscuits like those! Fresh cream from the cow they had… it is truly one of life’s delights! With homemade butter? To die for♥️I love how certain things stir that bittersweet feeling and comfort zone in ones heart and tummy❣️Love coming to visit you Tipper! You are a feel- good for me… sending love and peace and health to you and yours always♥️☮️‼️XXOOSue

I make my biscuits the same way. Every once in a while I'll mix blueberries or chopped strawberries in the dough and when they come out of the oven I'll pour a glaze over them, made from powdered sugar and heavy whipping cream.

This is exactly how Mary Ethel made “granny’s” chocolate gravy.🤣😇🥰love it. This is truly old recipe.

Thank you for keeping our heritage alive and well. It is always awesome to see fellow Appalachian people come out and show our culture in such a positive light.

Just made the biscuits for breakfast this morning and they are wonderful!! I’ve been making buttermilk biscuits for years but these are so easy and the texture and taste are great. My husband’s exact words were “you can put these biscuits on the table anytime!” High praise 😅. Thanks for another wonderful recipe.

oh boy I gotta make me some of those savory cheese biscuits now. I've been wanting to try some chocolate gravy too. White Lily is my ultimate favorite flour and corn meal, it makes the best fluffy biscuits. I use my mamaws biscuit cutter that she made from an old tin can years and years ago. Those old well worn blackened baking pans are priceless!!!

You gave me something new to try, I’ve never seen how to make those chocolate biscuits so that’s gonna happen tomorrow morning, and when I make my garlicky cheddar bay biscuits I always brush them with melted butter! I love hearing your daughter and seeing her there making sure you had everything you needed! You and your family bring back so many beautiful memories ❤️⭐️💫🌟

Those garlic and cheese biscuits must be really good! Year's ago walmart had the Red Lobster brand biscuit mix and I tried it a few times it was pretty good but not as good as eating them at the restaurant where you could get multiple biscuit basket refills! I can remember getting full on mushroom lobster and crab cake filled up side down mushrooms with melted cheddar cheese on top! Those and biscuits and the whatever else I'd get would go home in take out box!

As soon as you said easy, I thought that’s my kind of recipe! I for sure will try all 3😋 Thank you🧡I see blueberry hand pies in my future!!🫐

My goodness, they all look delicious! I had never seen this way of making biscuits. I will just go ahead and say it, I am a very good cook, but do struggle with making consistently good biscuits. I cannot wait to try your recipe with just the flower and cream. Watching you I can tell that you have made these many many times as you are very sure of yourself. That is how my grandmother was. She had 12 children so you know that she did a lot of cooking!

My Mamaw and mom made them the same. They had a bowl with flour in it. They would make a hole in the middle of the flour, put lard in the hole, put cream and squash with her hands. Then take a little flour and fold in. Then break pieces off when stiff enough and roll in their palm and pat the top down.

Thank you very much for this video! I am biscuit challenged, and this looks like a good candidate recipe for me! And for the first time, I think baked hand pies may be do-able!

When I was in 10th grade, my family had a foreign exchange student stay with us from Argentina. One of the recipes she made a lot was empanadas, a meat pie. I fell in love with those! Watching you make your hand pies reminded me of watching Marta make those empanadas the very first time. The smelled so good good baking, and they melted in my mouth when done. I have loved them ever since. Oh! Did I already say that?!!Your chocolate pie looks easy, and I will give that a try. Since you first mentioned your grandmother’s cream biscuits, I have been thinking about them. They look so good. I like my biscuit a little crunchy on the bottom, so I love to grease my pan, too. I like the easiness of your cheese and garlic biscuits. I have watched many older women make biscuits the way you describe your mom doing it - eyeing the ingredients without measuring, and then mixing them with their fingers. That is an art in itself - mixing the dough with their fingers! And to be able to not measure ingredients and the food turns out delicious was always amazing to me when I first seriously began learning to cook. I thought I would never be able to do that. And now, so many things I make is second nature. I do love trying new recipes, and the first time I make something new to me, I still tend to go exactly by the recipe. I still have not tried chocolate gravy - and I love chocolate! Thank you for giving us Ginger’s chocolate “syrup” gravy recipe in the description! I will definitely have to try it now! Donna. : )

I could watch you cook all day long! I do a decent White Lily self rising flour and cream biscuit. My 17yo daughter makes them even better! I don’t know what her magic is, but she has it for sure!

Mama would give me the little left over bit of dough and I would make it into little 'biscuits' and push them into a little metal toy pan i had and put them in the oven. You can imagine in that thin little pan by the time I was done with them they were hard little things but Daddy ate them anyway for me. He ate all my tries at learning to cook. Poor Daddy. I love those cheese biscuits too. I will have to try making them. 👍Mama used biscuit dough to make her dumplins too. Great video! I can see I will be making biscuits in the morning. Yall have a good weekend. One more week !!

Miss Tipper, please take this comment as the compliment it is intended to be, but your cooking videos remind me of my PaPa and MaMa so much it often brings me to tears. Though my family isn't from the Appalachia region, most and especially my paternal grandparents, were from the boot heel/oazrk area of Missouri. The Ozarks shares a rich heritage with Appalachia mountain people, because they were largely the ones who migrated and settle the Ozark area in Missouri and Arkansas. Lots of the words/slang you use I grew up hearing as well because of my PaPa and MaMa and that kin. So when I watch your cooking videos, memories come flooding back to me of my PaPa and Mama's kitchen and how/what they cooked. Man what I wouldn't give to taste some of their food again! Almost makes we want pop over to your neck of woods and be at one of your suppers or pot luck meals. Haha LOVE these videos of yours ma'am!

I love that bowl your making the biscuits in. Also, after I tried your biscuit recipe, I haven’t gone back. I have 4 grown sons that beg me to make them some for the road when they visit.

Oh my goodness, Tipper, all those variations on a biscuit look wonderful! You are making me hungry. You certainly are a first class cook, making everything look so simple! I have tasted all of these that you make and they are all good, I can't pick one that I like best! You go girl!

Amen sister. You have missed one of life’s simple pleasures if you haven’t eaten a warm biscuit covered in homemade chocolate gravy. We ate that way in West Tennessee when I was a child. Fond memories.

I really like hanging out with you on your cooking videos /this may sound sad but today I just remembered my mother who has NPD(narcissistic personality disorder )which makes them really mean/ would never let me go near her in the kitchen and didn't want me to learn how to cook from her/would tell me to go away, I think watching your videos is very healing for my heart/getting to see the family I never got to experience enjoying life warms my heart, your such a good momma/wife/daughter, I love it /thank you Tipper!

My go to biscuit recipe is a drop biscuit. I use an ice scoop to drop them on my pan. They aren’t huge, but they are cute and uniform. And I’m lazy, so I love that the scoop does all the work for me. :~)

Thanks for this amazing looking recipe. And thanks for the hint on the butter. Can't wait to have these for breakfast tomorrow 😁

The cook deserves the baby biscuit because the laborer is worthy of their hire! Besides that, slathered with butter they’re goooood!

Ok. I have the answer. I should have watched the full video before questioning. Thanks for sharing your recipes and expertise!

Biscuit Bonanza! My Mama made her biscuits like yours did, but I never learned that method either. My first husband worked for theWhite Lily Flour Company in Knoxville and the employees were given test kitchen primer cookbooks. That's where I learned. I'll have to try your version with of the cheese garlic biscuits with cream! That would have to be the best! I really enjoyed your video!

Dough has intimidated me for the better part of my life but you make these look so easy that even I could do it. I think I'll give it a try. Thanks, Tipper!

The quickness is what I like in baking the pies.

Southern Biscuit Formula L and buttermilk is another good 2 ingredient biscuit recipe. That's what I use. Thanks Tipper.

So nice to see you use same recipe for all your beautiful baked items. Yum! I like Red lobster biscuits, too. May have to try this easy recipe for them. Thank you, Tipper

I just found this recipe a while back for cream biscuits. You're right, they've never failed!! Momma rolled hers out like your granny, but I ended up using the whole bag of flour 😂. I grew up in southern Wilkes county and your videos bring back great memories. I will definitely be trying the garlic cheese and the hand pies! Thank you so much for sharing💜

Hey Tipper, My husband wanted me to write and tell you something. I had to wait till I got straightened up after watching Corrie & Austin's wedding video. Whewwww, tear jerker for sure, lol. I'm so happy for them. Good grief you would have thought it was one of my kids getting married, lol. Ok, anyway, I made your biscuits with self-rising flour and heavy cream. I've tried every biscuit recipe you could imagine and they mostly came out heavy and on the dry side. BUT......I made yours this morning, and he said that they were the BEST biscuits that he had ever eaten! They were awful good, nice and light and moist. I'll never make them any other way (might try buttermilk one day). I'm 62 years old and it took me this long to make a good biscuit, lol. Thanks again!

My mom would let me have the baby biscuit . I've never made biscuits with whipping cream I think I'll try them. I'm watching at12:53 am and your making me hungry for gravy and biscuits 😋

We've had that wonderful biscuit recipe in our family for quite awhile, chocolate gravy too, so yummy. I'm gonna try that chocolate on my hand pies. My favorite hand pies are either peach or apricot. I started putting peanut butter & apple butter on my biscuits when I was a kid & I still love that.

Enjoyed watching your video so much! I’ve mastered corn and flour tortillas as our main meals are Mexican food. Didn’t grow up having home cooked bread products so I’m having to learn new skills at 72 years of age to widen my prepping skills. I have bread down with a simple enough for me recipe but the biscuit videos I’d see looked very intimidating but you made this recipe that looks simple enough and I love how you said it was pretty fool proof given when it has been over handled by your students! I have never heard of chocolate gravy before and just couldn’t imagine it over food until I saw how you used it over your biscuit, lol! My husband will enjoy that for sure! Thank you for educating me and countless others!

I love making drop biscuits, they are so easy and come out every time. I bake em in muffin tins, cause I like the shape. Nothing better than hot biscuits and butter and jam for breakfast!

OMG !!!! That looks SOOOOOOO GOOOD !!!!

Once again you have made an extra good celebration of biscuits. I couldn’t get how to blend the flour and lard so I resorted to Bisquick. I remember watching you make chocolate gravy. Amazing! Always fun when you share your life and your family. I love watching all your videos 😊

Thank you so very much for sharing such scrumptious biscuit recipe - YUM! My family makes half-moon pies similar to the pies in the video, but uses the Pennsylvania Dutch recipe. Instead of biscuit dough and jelly, the recipe uses a simple pie dough (vegetable oil, flour, and a pinch of salt) and dried apples - very delicious! Thank you once again for sharing your favorite recipes! I very much enjoy watching your videos as well as your daughters' videos - they bring back memories of spending time with family in the Pennsylvania mountains.

They all look so yummy!! Thank you for sharing!!

What memories! I remember my grandmother and my mother would make their biscuits (and dumplings) with their hands in the flour tray working the flour into a well in the middle to get that perfect consistency. I’ve never had dumplings better than my mother’s! And we’ve never rolled out and cut our biscuits, we’ve always rolled them by hand. We always had to make that baby biscuit if there were little ones around. Btw, my grandmother’s flour tray was carved from a tree and given as a gift from my grandad when they were young. How sweet! 😍♥️♥️

I found this video incredibly relaxing and therapeutic. It was so enjoyable to watch you work with the dough.. Thank you so much. This was such a special video! Loved all the recipes.

I couldn't make biscuits like my mom either. I watched your earlier video when you talked about your biscuits and I tried your easy recipe and that's how I make my biscuits now! So good!! I'm definitely going to try the cheese and garlic biscuits and the hand pies too!

Thank you for this simple biscuit recipe. I’m a transplant from Michigan and had no idea how to make biscuits. I tried and tried to make biscuits with buttermilk and cutting in the shortening. They never worked out. Made some two ingredient biscuits this morning and the family if just going nuts over them! Thank you, thank you!

My Ma would make Chocolate Pies for our school lunches - until WW2 when they started a kitchen and gave us breakfast and lunch. I always wondered how she made them. It took to 89 years of age to find out from you - thank you. I "remember and understand" Appalachian but can't "speak" it anymore. Phyllis

My mother always used Lard and buttermilk, but her recipe is hard to perfect. She had this same recipe for pies.

I really love chocolate gravy. It has been too long since I had some. I will have to plan on doing that this weekend. Your hand pies look soooo good. I bet my husband would love them. I have some dried apples I could use too.

I’m so glad my Daddy’s mother did the pies and biscuits I’m not sure how she did them but they were the best they lived in a small town called Ft Blackmore Va and I learned a little bit growing up with her and my other Grandmother who lived in Waynesboro Tn taught me to make fried pies and my son made me so proud he made apple and peach pies I’m 64 he’s 41 happy Mommy that and always

WOW!!! They look great!!!!