{"id":1240,"date":"2010-01-12T11:18:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2010-01-12T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T15:19:20","slug":"drop-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/recipes\/drop-biscuits\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Drop Biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>With the holidays and family visits behind us, Monique and I have taken to focusing on our eating and exercising habits again. Therefore, this weekend Monique developed a weekly menu and shopping list based on the menu plan, we are now limiting our three main meals to only 400 calories, or 1,600 calories per day with two 200-calorie snacks. Note: Click on images for a larger view.<\/p>\n

For Saturday and Sunday breakfast, Monique made from scratch two different drop biscuit recipes, both from the Weight Watchers magazine \u201cSix O\u2019Clock Solutions\u201d, a cookbook we have been using since 2001. I must say these recipes are actually quite good and healthy too.<\/p>\n

\"Drop<\/a>You will find after reading through these two recipes that there are similarities between biscuits, and that is typically that butter or fat is cut into the flour and rising agents creating what is known as the \u201cdry\u201d ingredients. Then a separate bowl of \u201cwet\u201d ingredients is prepared. Once both sets of ingredients are ready, they are combined to form the biscuit dough. In the two \u201cdrop\u201d biscuit dough recipes here they are ready to place on the sheet pans, no rolling and cutting is necessary, just use two large spoons to scrape off tablespoon portions and \u201cdrop\u201d them onto the cooking sheets.<\/p>\n

Oatmeal Drop Biscuits<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Oatmeal<\/a>On Saturday Monique made the Oatmeal Drop Biscuits found on page 16 and in keeping with \u201cdrop biscuits\u201d these are literally dropped from a spoon rather than rolled, creating a rough, cobblestone-like appearance, and are so easy to make. We have made a few modifications from the original recipe, we use only butter, but the recipe calls for margarine. Another modification we made in the recipe is it call for baking for 8 minutes, we found this too short a time for our oven and baked them for 14 to 16 minutes.<\/p>\n

According to the recipe these biscuits are 2 points each, contain 99 calories, 0.9g fiber, 3 grams fat, and 2.7 grams protein. If you wish to follow these nutritional informational’s you will have to use margarine in place of the butter.<\/p>\n

Yield: 16 biscuits<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Ingredients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 \u00bc<\/td>\nCups<\/td>\nAll purpose flour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nTbsp<\/td>\nButter, chilled, cut into small pieces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 \u00bd<\/td>\nTsp<\/td>\nBaking powder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bd<\/td>\nTsp<\/td>\nSalt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 \u00bc<\/td>\nCups<\/td>\nQuick-cooking oats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bd<\/td>\nCup<\/td>\nSkim milk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nTbsp<\/td>\nHoney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nLg.<\/td>\nEgg, lightly beaten<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCooking spray<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Procedure Steps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/td>\nPre-heat oven to 425\u00b0 F.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/td>\nIn the bowl of a food processor, add the flour, butter, baking powder, salt, and process for until the mixture looks like coarse meal, or about 20 seconds of pulsing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/td>\nAdd the oats and process another 5 seconds or so.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.<\/td>\nIn another bowl combine the skim milk, honey and egg, then add this to the flour mixture and process for another 5 seconds or until moist throughout.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.<\/td>\nGrease a baking sheet with cooking spray or butter and drop the dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto the sheet pan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.<\/td>\nBake at 425\u00b0 F for 14 minutes or until browned on top.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Orange Drop Biscuits<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Orange<\/a>On Sunday Monique made the Orange Drop Biscuits found on page 66 and we modified the recipe a bit here by following the similar food processor technique from the previous biscuits, even though this one has your hand cut the butter into the flour with a pastry blender or 2 kitchen knives. The food processor method is so quick and achieves the same results. The orange marmalade in these biscuits really adds a great flavor, and they do not need any added butter or jam, perfect with a cup of fresh coffee in the morning. Again, several of the ingredients we changed out so the nutritional information may not exactly match those listed below from the original recipe, but it gives you an idea of where it has been modified. The margarine in the original recipe was traded out with butter, the original 1% low-fat cottage cheese was traded out with 2% low-fat cottage cheese and we omitted \u00be teaspoon of grated orange peel from the original recipe, but I am sure it would add even more orange flavor in addition to the orange marmalade. \u00a0We also doubled the cooking time from 8 minutes to 16, our oven took longer to get them to a nice golden brown on top, and your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

According to the recipe these biscuits are 1 point each, contain 38 calories, 0.2 g fiber, 1 gram fat, and 1.3 g protein. If you wish to use these nutritional informational’s you will need to use margarine and 1% low-fat cottage cheese.<\/p>\n

Yield: 24 biscuits<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Ingredients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 \u00bc<\/td>\nCups<\/td>\nAll-purpose flour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nTbsp<\/td>\nSugar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 \u00bd<\/td>\nTsp<\/td>\nBaking powder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bc<\/td>\nTsp<\/td>\nBaking soda<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nTbsp<\/td>\nButter, chilled, cut into small pieces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/3<\/td>\nCup<\/td>\n2% low-fat cottage cheese<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bc<\/td>\nCup<\/td>\nEgg substitute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nTbsp<\/td>\nLow-sugar orange marmalade<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCooking spray<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Procedure Steps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/td>\nPreheat oven to 400\u00b0 F.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/td>\nCombine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda in the bowl of a food processor and mix for 5 seconds. Then add the butter and process until the mixture looks like a coarse meal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/td>\nIn a separate bowl, combine the cottage cheese, egg substitute, and marmalade. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and process until moist throughout, or about 5 to 10 seconds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.<\/td>\nDrop the dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto a greased sheet pan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.<\/td>\nBake at 400\u00b0 F for 16 minutes or until a nice golden brown.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once both sets of ingredients are ready, they are combined to form the biscuit dough. In the two \u201cdrop\u201d biscuit dough recipes here they are ready to place on the sheet pans, no rolling and cutting is necessary, just use two large spoons to scrape off tablespoon portions and \u201cdrop\u201d them onto the cooking sheets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,131,186,11,158],"tags":[379,896,323,2081,19,891,887,324,298,890,893,888,889,892,2049,894,855,895,2085],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t