Perfect Pioneer Biscuits – AND A GIVEAWAY!!
UPDATE: We have our Winners in the Pioneer Giveaway!
Thanks to Random.org for choosing the numbers!
Kathy Davis
GaFarmWomanPam
SimplyAnonyMom
You are our Three Winners!! Email me at Christy@southernplate.com with your mailing address so that Pioneer can send your baking mix to you!
Thank you to all who participated and be SURE to check out our MONTH FILLED WITH GIVEAWAYS Post! In February, Southern Plate is giving away prizes valued at OVER $500!!
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Note: Contest has ended, please see above for winners! Thank You!
Today, I am excited – doubly excited. Triply excited, even. For one, I get to show you all how to make homemade biscuits a whole lot quicker (this is how I make them on school mornings when we all seem to be running behind). For another, I get to tell you about a great company and the icing on the cake is, I get to bring you a giveaway!!
Since starting Southern Plate, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with people from several prominent companies. There is nothing I love more than finding out that the people behind a product I love are just downright nice folks. I tend to like products better when I know they are made by “people oriented” companies who haven’t lost touch with their consumer. If you’ll look at my sponsors: Hamilton Beach, Wilton, Southern Beauty, and Pioneer Brand, every one of these companies is just plain made up of nice people. I have personal contacts with each one of them and they are all just tickled with the amazing people who read Southern Plate!
Pioneer Brand is a company I have been wanting to work with for a while because I have a few recipes involving their products that I just dearly love for their taste, ease, and time saving help. I also love how very in tune they are with their consumer – as is clearly shown by the convenience of the packaging in their baking mix! Once I discovered Pioneer Brand Baking mix several years ago, I have cringed at the thought of that annoying Bisquick box ever since.
Today I am going to bring you Pioneer Biscuits. They are super easy, require only two ingredients, and allow you to turn out homemade biscuits with no fuss and little muss. I have a recipe on here for truly, made from scratch, buttermilk biscuits but I have to be honest with y’all – I am no different from you in that I just don’t have time for those very often! These are my “go to” biscuits on busy mornings or when I just need a good biscuit and don’t want to put all of the effort (or time) into it.
And guess what? Later this week, I am going to bring you some absolutely delicious, melt in your mouth, to die for cookies made with this mix, too! Seriously! Oh and if any of you are shipping cookies off to a loved one in the military, this cookie recipe is the one you simply must try next.
Now for the fun part! I have some great things coming up with Pioneer in the future but this week is awesome as well.
Three lucky Southern Plate readers are going to win a case of
Pioneer Brand Biscuit and Baking Mix!
Each case features two of these handy canister boxes of mix so you’ll be able to make these biscuits, the cookies I am going to bring you, and more.
Instructions on how to enter are at the bottom of this post!
To make Perfect Pioneer Biscuits, you need Milk and Pioneer Brand Baking Mix.
That’s it.
No really, I’m serious.
The first thing that attracted me to this product was the packaging. Instead of that silly, messy, nonsensical box we have a nice canister style packaging here. Take our plastic lid off and you have this seal.
Now just cut the end piece of the seal and we have a pourable canister 
. There is also a piece of hard plastic that goes across inside the canister right beneath that dotted line to help reinforce this.
Place three cups of baking mix into a bowl and add one cup of milk.
Stir that up a bit until it is all moistened.
I like to lay out a sheet of waxed paper to work with my biscuit dough on so I can just wad it up and toss it when I am done. Sprinkle a bit of pioneer or flour onto the paper.
And spread it around well so your dough won’t stick when you pour it out. I am not actually spreading mine well enough so my dough is going to stick a little in the next few pics but I just did that on purpose so y’all wouldn’t feel bad if you did the same thing. ~grins and tries to sound convincing~
Dump out your biscuit dough and sprinkle a little baking mix or powder onto the top.
Now we have to knead it three or four times. In biscuits, as in life, it is important not to be overly “Kneady”. If you knead your biscuits too much, they will come out flat and hard.
I just pat my dough down and apply light pressure to spread it out a bit.
Then I fold it over and pat it out again. At this point, I need to add some more baking mix or flour to that paper because that is why there is dough stuck to it so I’ll do that before I pat it out again.
My point is, pat it out, then fold it over and pat it out again and repeat that two more times and you have some nicely kneaded biscuit dough.
As far as not flouring my waxed paper enough, I’m gonna invoke the golden rule of parenting here : Do as I say, don’t do as I do. I don’t remember the last time I was able to do a tutorial without kids distracting me. They were fighting over who got to use the laundry basket as their personal boat as I did these.
Mental note: Buy two more laundry baskets so I can actually use one for laundry.
Then I just kinda pat mine out like this. You can use a rolling pin but patting it out works fine.
I’m about to show you two ways to cut these. One is more traditional and the other is more streamlined, less wasteful, and easier – but it just feels odd to Southerners.
This is a pizza cutter. I roll it a bit in some flour and then…
Voila!
But let me tell ya something, as neat as this is and as quick and easy, to a Southerner, there’s just something unnatural about a square biscuit .
Oh yeah, that’s more like it!!!
Place these on a greased baking pan and I like to top mine off with just a light spraying of cooking spray to get them all prettified on the top when they are done. You can use melted butter for this or even a bit of cooking oil brushed on if you like. You can also omit this step entirely.
They bake at 450 for ten to twelve minutes.
Want to make these for yourself? Many Wal Marts carry Pioneer Brand baking mix and tons of grocery stores have it as well. My Wal Mart stopped carrying it ~sighs and shakes her head at Wal Mart~ so I get mine at the Piggly Wiggly!
If you’d like to have a case of Pioneer Brand Baking mix free, delivered straight to your door, leave a comment on this post and I’ll choose 3 winners next Monday!
Ingredients
- 3 Cups Pioneer Biscuit and Baking Mix
- 1 Cup Milk
Instructions
- Mix ingredients just until dough forms.
- Turn out onto floured surface and shape into a ball. sprinkle lightly with flour to prevent sticking. Knead three to four times.
- Pat or roll out to 1/2" thickness and cut out biscuits.
- Place on greased baking sheet. I like to spray mine on the top with a bit of cooking spray before baking in a 450 degree oven for ten to twelve minutes.
Wanna really bowl ‘em over?
Serve these with Crock Pot Apple Butter, Super Easy Peach Preserves, or Chocolate Gravy! (you can make Chocolate Gravy with Splenda, too!)
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Posted by Christy Jordan
on Jan 19 2009. Filed under Breads, Breakfast.
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ME!!! ME!!! ME!!!!
Please!!!Please!!!Please!!!
Would love to try these biscuits!!!!
Up here very limited grocery store!!
I love biscuits!!!!!
Just found this site and added it to my favorites. Looking forward to exploring it more!!!
Annette from Kapuskasing Ontario CANADA!!!!!
Way up North!!!
I LOVE biscuits. Summer time, fresh strawberries, whip cream and good biscuits. Is there anything better??? Just found this site while looking at a “Quilting site”. Have always used Bisquick, would love to try Pioneer Baking Mix but the stores in my little boon-dock town in northern Ca don’t carry it. Thank You, now back to Quilting.
Linda
Yummy! I love biscuits and honey. Count me in this giveaway.
Hi christy, I live in MO. my daddy was from Paris, tenn. i know a little about the south having driven in most of the state. But what i didn’t know was the mason dixon line is actually between Pa. and the state of Md.I was driving from MD. cooperstown NY. and went across the line. So this a large portion of the southern states.
Thanks for the great recipes
A case? Now that’s a lot of biscuits. Count me in!
Hello everybody from Columbia North Carolina, I am located just 45 minutes from the beautiful Outer Banks, I love southern cooking I usually make my biscuits from scratch, but these sound divine, easy too. I have to say this site is one if the best if not the best on southern cooking I have seen I have many bookmarked this has become my constant look at page since I found it. Very very informative and southern recipes at their best. We southern girls pride ourselves on our way of cooking, True southern cooking is almost a lost art, But there are some of us still trying to keep it alive. Great Job Cathy Cookbook looks great as well.
Made the biscuits and free soup. YUMMY! Fast and easy!! Leftovers are just as good if not better.
Yumm I want those!!!!
Ever since I found Southern Plate I’ve wanted to try Pioneer mix.
Now, if I can just find it somewhere!
I’m pregnant and was craving pudding, but didn’t have an instant box on hand. I found your site by googling “how to make pudding” but then I saw your biscuits…now I don’t know what I want more! Thanks for the chance to win!
Can’t wait to make biscuits and use some of that homemade syrup that I received last Christmas!
I thought for sure I had left a comment already, but I’m forgetful. If you see me again earlier in the comments, I’m sorry. I just wanted to make sure I’m entered in the contents
Hope I’m not too late to enter for the Pioneer biscuit mix contest. Sure hoping I win. Love your recipes.
Got my mix last night and the recipes printed. I am ready to go.
I am on my way to walmart to find pioneer baking mix!! Never tried it, but it looks tastier than bisquik!!
I am making the M&M Oatmeal Bars today. the kids will be excited when they see it waiting for them afterschool.
Thank-you!
I can’t wait to try the Pioneer Biscuit mix. I have used the White Lily flour forever to make biscuits so I know the Pioneer Biscuit mix will make up some big ole southern biscuits. Cat head biscuits, we call them down this way.
Thanks again.
Pam
P.S.
I email you my address!!! Please let me know if you didn’t get it.
These biscuits are terrific – as well as every other recipe I’ve tried from your site!
Thanks!
I don’t know if I can get Pioneer out here in the California desert, but I plan to try.
I cant wait to try these!! Hope I can fine Pioneer here where I live!!Think I seen it at Krogers but not for sure!!
I am so glad I found this website, already spent the last hour just looking thorugh your recipies. The biscuts look wonderful and sound so easy to make, plan to try them this weekend! Just saw the chocolate gray recipie, reminds me of my Christmas growing up, we always had it for breakfast on Christmas morning. Your recipies make me feel like being in Mamaw’s kitchen. Now I am a mamaw of 6 and can share these recipies with my grandkids. Love the site!!
I don’t want, I MUST HAVE PIONEER BISCUIT MIX IN MY PANTRY!!! My Wal-Mart stopped carrying it. Of course, I sent them an email begging them to ship a case of it to my local store here in northern Indiana so I could buy the whole thing. I didn’t even get a reply. I was raised in central Louisiana. My dad taught me how to make perfect biscuits using Pioneer when I was a much younger girl. I was fortunate enough that my brother came up to visit me and my family in December so we could meet his fiance (it wasn’t official until after they left here, though). She brought me several boxes of Pioneer as a “thank you” for making it possible for her to meet him (I paid for his match.com memebership! The wedding’s August 1!) They also brought me my favorite Blackburn’s syrup that I can’t get up here. They’ll all run out before I know it b/c my almost 4 year old son loves pancakes for breakfast. Ok, so do I. I won’t get home until we go down for the wedding and the price to buy it online is outrageous. To have some shipped from home would probably pay for gas to get me at least 1/4 of the way down for the trip this summer. I have one box left. I don’t know how long I can make it last:}
Are there any Ingles Stores where you are? They have Pioneer Mix. Good Luck!
Just couldn’t think of a more fun place to leave my comment. I live in So Texas and every year at out church we honor our “Winter Texans” with a super brunch. I’m the biscuit maker and 200 go pretty fast. Couldn’t do it without my Pioneer Biscuit mix, buttermild and a lot of fun! Our guest love them and cry for more. This saturday morning I’ll be up bright and early with my apron, mixing bowl and several boxes of Pioneer Brand Biscuit mix. And a little brush of butter on top when they come out of the oven just tops it off. Thanks for letting me brag a little. Judy
ME ENCANTAN ESOS BISQUITS PERO EN MEXICO NO PUEDO CONSEGUIRLOS, MIS PADRES YA SON GENTE MAYOR Y LES GUSTAN MUCHISIMO, PERO SOLO CUANDO VOY A LAREDO, TEXAS O MC ALLEN PUEDO COMPRARLOS, SERIA POSIBLE QUE YO TAMBIEN PARTICIPE EN ESTE CONCURSO…………LOS QUIERO!!!!!!
OMG!!! I love you! Now I don’t have to hear my husbands mouth!!!!
I live in Atlanta and love to eat other people’s biscuits. I am 61 and have decided to make cheese biscuits for my next pot luck supper. I am trying Pioneer mix because several of my friends recommended it. I would love some tips. This is my first try and I want these biscuits to be a hit.
Best regards,
Eileen
Coming from south Louisiana we grew up on Pioneer Products, I’ve used them all of my life. Everything you make comes out great!!, My family loves this product. I’ve since moved to south florida and was able to find it at the Super Walmart, but they have just stopped selling it. I’m very disappointed,and now have to look else where to buy it, or wait until I make a run to Louisiana to stock up on it. If it’s not to late,I would love to win a case of Pioneer Baking Mix.
Best Regards,
Marla
Christy; I enjoy your Southern goodies. My family comes the deep south of Mississippi and migrated to the Southern part of Texas. So the South is in my blood you might say. When my husband and I relocated up to Kansas I had a culture shock. Every thing I grew up with changed. I now use the Bisquick for quick biscuits in the morning. I like to use my very old Southern Living cook book for breads and the roll recipe I use calls for 1 TBS for crisco grease. I decided one morning to add a TBS of crisco in the biscuit flour and cut it in first then added the milk and such. I rolled it out and cut my biscuits out when they baked up they where wonderful and my husband said they were so flaky and as firm as the original recipe was. He liked the soft flayness of these biscuits. They went very well with the cream gravy I made for breakfast morning and the 2 little boys ages 5 and 7 gulped them down and asked for more plus milk on the side. I would say that extra ingredient was a good one for experiments. West Texas Lady
LOVE-LOVE-LOVE PIONEER BAKING MIX!!!! I searched for the perfect biscuit recipe for years. Finally, I found Pioneer Baking Mix. I will never stop using this wonderful product. The only problem I have is that it’s hard to find sometimes. I finally found an Ingles Grocery Store that carries it. I always buy 2 at a time!!! I’m online right now trying to find where in Sabastian, FL, my mother-in-law can buy it.
I like to put shredded cheese in my mix and my son loves them!
Oh!! Those biscuits looks fabulous!! I need to look in my local WalMart to see if they carry Pioneer Brands.
I’d love to make some strawberry shortcake biscuits to go with the beauriful fresh strawberries sitting in my fridge!!
Love all the tips, tricks & great photos of the recipes. This is my new favorite recipe site.
Jade
I just love everything that you send me on line..I can’t wait to see the next recipes..I would love to win the Pioneer Baking Mixes..I use them all the time but It would make a great House Warming gift for my brother and family..Thanks alot, Rita
I was taught as a young girl in a huge family that “scratch” biscuits was the only way to go, and up until about a year ago that is how I always made my biscuits, welllll someone told me about Pioneer and so I decided to make these biscuits and take them to a family get together, well my family loved them and were even a bit surprised when I told them they were not “homemade”. Keep up the great work Christy, you make my life so much easier.
Living here in California I have not found Pioneer products. It would be wonderful to wake up and make some great bisquits for a change instead of the canned ones!(I hear ya all groaning!) Christy I love this site and have been around since almost the start. It is great to watch you grow and great for all the wonderful recipes you share with us.
Would love to win a case of Pioneer Baking Mix. I use the Pioneer Gravy mixes all the time and my family loves them. Would love to have the opportunity to try the baking mix.
I truly like Pioneer products. I especially like their white gravy even though I do not prepare it by the package directions. I tried their way and found that I could tailor it to my own tastes. It is so much better.
I was excited a couple years ago to have lunch at the Pioneer Mills restaurant. The food was so good and so much of it. Loved rambling through the gift shop and buying some of the goodies. I recommend this to anyone visiting San Antonio. Would love to win this Pioneer Tin.
Dear Christy,
Have you ever heard of a Pioneer biscuit made from soda water…I would love to have it..A friend shared this with me a very long time ago and I have missed placed it. Today Im going to try the buttermilk biscuit you have posted, I have 5 children…And they love biscuits and gravy….Have a great day and thank you for sharing these yummy ideas with everyone….I run out of ideas and this is great for me!!!!!
I have never seen Pioneer brand at our stores so would absolutely love to try it as it sounds so yummie. We actually like Bisquick biscuits so if these are better we’d be in “heaven”.
I’m looking forward to receiving Pioneer Brand Baking Mix. I’ve never used it…a bit old-fashioned in making biscuits from scratch, but these appear so much easier and look so good with no having to add the leavenings, salt, and shortening, butter, or oil. I seldom go the trouble of making biscuits anymore since my family is now only two, but these look so great and temptingly good…perfect to go with my homemade blackberry jam. Tired of just toast.
WHen I was growin up, we ate biscuits and gravy for supper at least once a week.
I didn’t know that we was poor.
I didn’t understand that feeding yore family biscuits and gravy was the poor man’s way to fill up those hungry tummies !!
I just knew that my Mama made the BEST biscuits and gravy in the whole world.
Mama would yell, “Y’all go wash yore hands, biscuits are ready to come out of the oven” and away we’d go.
Mama baked her biscuits in an old round pan that had to be a hundred years old. Boy! Did the biscuits taste good that were baked in that pan. She’d make a ring of biscuits ’round the pan, and the last biscuit was always a biggest one……that was for daddy. It was placed in the middle of the ring. It was soft all the way ’round…..due to the other biscuits touching it on all sides.
She’d take her biscuits out of the pan, and put them in a bowl that was lined with a cloth napkin, or a clean dish towel. Those biscuits were covered up with the cloth so they’d stay hot enough to melt butter.
YUM !!!!
Now my husband begs for biscuits and gravy for supper. It is a special treat for him. And I can sure make those biscuits !!I use a basket lined with a cloth napkin to cover’em and keep’em warm. I even make my own applebutter to put on them too !!
Ca’t get enough of a good thing, can you???
christy , love pioneer brand baking mixes &gravy mixes !what would breakfast or supper be with out them ??????????? would love to win some. i love tins &canisters now im usining half gallon antique jars to store flour& corn meal in so cute!!!love your post . see ya debbifred in arkansas
I stumbled on your web sight looking up Pioneer Brand. I am and have been hooked on their product for years! It is the best. When I think of Bisquick, I shudder. I have actually talked people in grocery stores into puttin back the bisquick!(Ok only once) My FAVORITE recipe is the biscuits, but add 1 cup sour cream, knead lightly on floured surface and press into a sprayed 8×8 pan, cut into squares, and pour melted butter over. Easist and fluffier.
So excited to have found Southern Plate!
Robin Mc
where can i get pioneer biscuit & baking mix. can not buy it in fla. i have looked for it for a year.can you let me none. norma white
Looks great and easy too! What’s not to like!
Thank you so much for the receipe for biscuits. My family loves biscuits and gravey. I have been using another type of flour but ihave to say that pioneer is without a doubt the best.
Pinch em, roll em and throw em in the pan. LOL…That is the way my Mama taught me. She would make the dough up and just pinch off a biscuit size piece, roll it around in her hand, flatten in in a round shape and throw it in the pan.
I have heard you can use carbonated water in place of the milk. I’ve never tried it. I did try the beer bread and was not impressed, that I found somewhere online. I love milk though, so if it calls for milk, I’m using milk.
I love Pioneer Biscuit Mix – that’s all I’ve used for years. I recently tried it for my version of Angel Biscuits by dissolving a packet of Active Yeast in warm water – letting it bloom for a couple of minutes – add it to about 3 cups or 4 cups of the Pioneer Buttermilk Mix (I don’t measure much anymore) and some extra milk and roll it out on a floured surface and they come out great. You DO NOT let them do a pre-rise – knead just a little and roll them, cut them and bake them right away at 400 degrees. What’s nice about this – you can do just a small about of biscuits and then I roll the extra dough into a plastic storage bag – put it in my refrigerator and it’s good for about a week to make more biscuits when desired. I’m 71, single and live alone and I love these things. I live in Fort Worth, TX now (about 20 years) – but born and raised in New Orleans. Don’t get more southern than than.
– I love cooking southern style.
I love your site. I love Southern cooking, I was born and raised in the South. My mom woke me up early every morning to a full homecooked breakfast, which usually included homemade biscuits, sometimes with gravy. I have relied on my Mom or my older sisters to do the Southern cooking thing on Sundays, then I would cook whatever during the week. I am now trying to learn to cook like they do. Thanks for having this site. These pioneer biscuits look great. I cant wait to try this recipe too.
Absolutely love your blog.I have never tried that brand ,i have used other brands,Would certainlly love to try pioneer brand,If you say it’s good then It must be……….I love to cook and bake….
Betty