Tired of buying this out of the store? Well, today Jess and I came across a recipe to make our own. We found it in our Mennonite cookbook. I needed to make sausage balls for our thanksgiving meal and of course my store bought bisquick mix was out of date. I will be making this mix today but I felt confident enough in Mrs. Shank’s recipe to post it without trying it first. I very seldom do that but every recipe I have tried from this cookbook has been excellent. I feel confident this one will be also. The recipe is:
8 cups all purpose flour, 1/3 cup baking powder, 2 tsp. cream of tartar, 3 tbsp sugar, 1 tbsp salt, 1 1/2 cups dry milk powder. Mix together thoroughly. 2 cups vegetable shortening. Cut in until mixture is fine uniform crumbs. Store in airtight container in cool dry place. Yield 13 cups mix which makes 45-50 biscuits. To make biscuits, blend together 3 1/2 cups mix and 2/3 cup water. Stir just until liquid is mixed into the dough. Form into a ball and knead slightly. Pat or roll out to 1/2″ thickness. Cut with biscuit cutter. Place on greased baking sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 12-15 min. Makes 12 large biscuits.
Temperatures are nice here today but the clouds are moving in. I have clothes on the line, hoping they will dry. Yesterday was a beautiful day with lots of sunshine. I certainly am enjoying these warm temperatures. I was looking on our calendar. Last year on Dec. 5th we had our first snow and it snowed all winter. It was a beautiful but hard winter. I wonder what the Lord has in mind for this winter.
Time for school. Enjoy your day and God bless.
Merry Heart Crafts 
I haven’t tried a bisquick mix yet. It sounds good. We have wind blowing and the temperature is dropping into the 20s. I am glad to sit inside by the fire in the living room.
What are sausage balls?
Have a great day.
~Cheryl
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I just love being able to make my own things instead of having to use a mix!
It is cold here but sunshine and blue skies ~ highs are only expected to be in the 20’s today and we had snow yesterday. An inside kind of day!
A very blessed & Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Blessings,
Sharon
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Sausage balls are one of our favorites. We tried a new biscuit recipe last week and they were unbelievably good. It calls for 1 cup of self rising flour(I used AP and added baking powder and salt), 1/2 cup of milk, and 1/4 cup mayonnaise(strange, I know) Mix it all together and put in greased muffin pan. Bake at 350 about 30 mins. Even Bub loves these. We would love to get together next week!
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I’ve tried it in the past and it definitely is a time saver and tastes much better than the stuff you buy at the store. At the present time I just mix up my biscuits from scratch, but the mix is handy if your recipe calls for boxed biscuit mix.
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