Tudor biscuit recipe

I’ve been making biscuits since I was nine years old, and I make good biscuits! Just ask my workshop attendees! They come sneaking back to the table to grab just one more when I start putting breakfast away so we can go milking. The type of biscuits I make come from my Oklahoma grandmother. My...Read More

In this new series called Tudor Meals, we will be making and taste testing Tudor recipes for you. This month we baked Shrewsbury biscuits! This treat was enjoyed in Tudor times by wealthy people, because it includes ingredients such as cinnamon and sugar.

It took me quite awhile to perfect my biscuit recipe, but now I think it is the perfect biscuit. Flakey, rich, and thick are all the qualities I was looking for in a biscuit recipe. One of my best …

Every search for what it means to be West Virginian ends where the biscuit sandwich (allegedly) began

A medieval recipe with a few modern tweaks of my own. The only problem is you may have to keep them under lock and key....

Here is the promised recipe from the recent breadmaking post. This is from the Tasha Tudor cookbook, and I'll be writing more about her soon...she's someone whose life I greatly admired. This is a basic white bread -- I'm wanting to try some of her other breads, too. I started with this one, which yielded a slightly sweet basic white bread loaf. The one extra rising made the difference in texture. I wrestled with the dough while kneading it the first two times, but after the second rising…

Photos, facts and debate on the best of British history along with historical recipes for you to try at home.

Photos, facts and debate on the best of British history along with historical recipes for you to try at home.