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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Now this is what I need to get a jump start in the morning. Off I go to the store to pick up the ingredients cuz I have seen Pioneer in my local grocery. Thanks
Love the quickness and easiness of these. Perfect for a fast paced morning of getting hubby out the door to work.
I seriously have not had a bad recipe from your site, and considering that all of us love biscuits…. I’m totally getting into this!!!
Wow, another great simple recipe & product!
I love the container it comes in too!
Can’t wait to try the biscuits & the cookies in a pan ( so easy !!)
I am actually starting to like cooking again!
I am a 53 year old southern woman, and I love bisquits. I grew up on homemade ones from scratch from my mom. I have tried other baking mixes and use one faithfully in Sausage Balls, but this Pioneer is not one of them. I am going to try it. I am the youngest of 4 daughters and I know cooking has come a long way since my mother. I am called upon to cook the bisquits for all family get-togethers. I still make them the way my mom did. So has womanhood come a long way.. I now cook filling for pies and banana pudding using the microwave, and my neices are astounded, but would never tell their mothers because they consider that cheating!!! Haha! Young women now have full time, high pressure outside the home jobs and I want to try this and pass it on, so the taste of old-fashioned recipes will not be lost!!!! I would love for all young women to be able to serve the same delicious recipes my mother did, without the added work that was necessary then.
I have lived in the south my whole life and am useless at making biscuits…really good at making hockey pucks however. I’ll check the stores for Pioneer mix. Thanks.
I love your website and have done a lot more cooking since finding it. I would like a good recipe for Morning Glory Muffins if you have one!
Hi Cristy! I first want to thank you for all your heard work and wonderful recipes, they are all so easy and delicious.
I’m going out tomorrow first thing in search of the Pioneer baking mix, can’t wait to amke a big batch of them. I have a son in the Marines and stationed at Camp Lejune in N.C., his totally favorite food is biscuits & sausage gravey. He tries to drive home for a weeke-end once a month and I can’t wait to make these for him & the rest of my family. My husband & I also have a 20 yr old son at home and are also rasing & have custody of our older daughters 3 children.Thanks to you this will be a quick & easy recipe to fix for my big family that they will all love.
Keep up the great work and again Thanks!!
Christy…love your site! Being from NC, your recipes remind me of home soooo much…makes me miss my mom & dad..they both are great southern cook (collard greens, fried chicken, fried okra, squash/onions, etc, etc, etc). Keep up the great work!
Lara
I found your site from the newspaper column. Love it. I also collect antique kitchen items. I have the Fire King Tulip bowl set also plus a few pieces of FK jadeite. I use mine also. Remember my grandmother using these and it brings back good memories. Cooking is a good memory for most of us. Keep the “simple” recipes coming.
Christy -
Your blog is like I’ve gone home for a visit with my little sisters. I know every recipe, learned from my Momma. Now living in Oregon and away from the south and southern ways and southern hospitality, it helps to relieve some of the home sickness I still feel evan after all these years. Some of my husbands family still live in Alabama. (On his Momma’s side of course). A little town up from Decatur. We all cook the same way but his Aunt Shirley was the best. She made biscuits every morning and there was always a table full of people ready to “Grab it and Growl” as we used to say. Thanks for helping me to remember all those years of growing up southern!
So I woke up this morning and FREEZING COLD TEMPS IN FLORIDA to see this delicious looking article. Boy, am I ever craving biscuits now. How heavenly would chocolate gravy be on top of these bad boys. Oh yum.
I love baking mix!!! and would love to try this brand. You have a great site.
I grew up in the 50′s with Pioneer in Plainview, Texas. I love to take their gravy mixes and add a lb. of good old, Jimmy Dean sausage (I knew Jimmy Dean personally, since he was from Plainview). Our Walmart here in Yankeeland (Michigan) has a few Pioneer items but not always the baking or gravy mixes. I’d love to have a case of the mix…
I would love to win the baking mix. I really love the tin. Do I just leave my e-mail address?
Peggy Sutton sistermandm@hotmail.com
Pioneer makes great products. Living in Texas for years, we used Pioneer products, but now living in Alabama we have a harder time finding the ones we like. We now have the Pioneer Corn Bread mix sent to us by FedEx by the case. With a cast iron skillet and bacon drippings, there is no better corn bread. The Baking Mix is great for pancakes with a slice of fried bacon cooked in the middle. Yum, I getting hungry just thinking about them. I’m off to the kitchen.
Christy, These biscuits look great! I have never been able to make good biscuits, although I can make a mean pan of cornbread. I am looking forward to trying this recipe. I have just discovered your website and it is GREAT!! My daughter (Kristi) and I have already made several things from your recipe list. Thank you for using your time to post this website. May God richly bless you and your family.
Love the recipes! Wish I could find the Pioneer Baking Mix out here!
I can’t wait to try these biscuits. I have never been that great at making them but everything I have made from your site has turned out wonderfully so I know these will too!
I’ve been intimidated by homemade biscuits for years! My husband was just saying last week that he would really love some, but I’m still too scared to try the buttermilk biscuit recipe. This one looks SO EASY! I’ve seen Pioneer Brand baking mixes in the grocery store, but always stuck with Bisquik because ‘it’s what my mom used.’
Thank you SO MUCH for showing me how silly I’ve been all of these years, I can’t wait to make some biscuits! OOoooh, these would go SO GOOD with the sausage gravy recipe! And with the peach preserves, too.
My husband’s gonna think he died and went to heaven!
Looks like these biscuits would be yummy. Hope to find Pioneer biscuit mix in my area.
Hey Christy OMG these look like “grammas” biscuits! thanks for sharing your great info as usual, saw this on TWITTER! isn’t the net great? Its my bday today so I am going around the net doing some FUN stuff rather than work!
YUMMY STUFF HERE FOLKS! I see a lot of familiar names commenting! GOOD LUCK FRIENDS
I am so excited to see the step-by-steps here! My mother never cooked and my grandmothers were all gone by the time I was old enough not to be a bother in the kitchen. I love the Pioneer Mix and usually have it on hand as a ‘staple’! I just came back from the grocery store with all the ingredients to make those yummy eclairs you served at Logan’s! Wish me luck!!!! It was so nice to meet you the other night – good luck with your Pink Lipstick series!
Wow I would love to win….to be honest I have never used the Pioneer Mix, but would love to give it a try!
Hey Christy,
Did you know that with 3 little ingredients, you can make those yummy “Cheddar Bay Biscuits” from Red Lobster? Just add 1/2 C. sharp cheddar cheese, shredded while mixing up the dough. Drop by rounded TBSPs on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in a 450 degree oven for 8 – 10 minutes. Brush with 1/4 C melted butter mixed with 1/4 tsp garlic powder. It’s easy and oh so yummy!
TTFN, Tina
I use this all the time. I love it. Its makes really great strawberry shortcake!!Yummmmmmmmm I hope I win. Thanks for the tutorial.
evidently pioneer mix isnt available here in southern illinois either! boo!
I love their pancake mix, haven’t tried the baking mix. LOVE your recipes. I’ll by trying the M&M bars tomorrow.
Oh, I’d love to try Pioneer Brand Baking mix. Hope I win!
I stopped in to tell you that I really enjoy your site & have made a few of your recipes. I’ve made your southern steak & gravy, butterfinger cake, & something else that I can’t bring to mind at the moment! Thanks for such a great site!
I also wanted to tell you that I gave you an award!
You can see it here:
http://janedoesntblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/lemonade-award.html
I had never received a blog award, so I found it so much fun giving it out!
Thank you for the tip; I don’t think I will ever make biscuits again without a sheet of waxed paper.
(why didn’t I think of this before?!)
Thanks for the recipe and the tip. Have you thought about a post or page of helpful hints,tips,tricks,& tools?
Thanks again
Mel
Christy… Can you subsititute Pioneeer mix for any Bisquick recipe? We have used Bisquick for years, but we will try Pioneer. We love your web site and recipes. It’s like having web access to my Mama. Thank you!
Enjoy your cookbook and the daily emails so much. My local walmart doesn’t carry the pioneer brand, will have to do some detective work to try to locate some.
I hope it is okay, I put your link on my facebook and told my friends about your cookbook.
Shirley
These look great! Thanks for the contest.
These look great! I’ve never seen the Pioneer Brand here in Pa. (It must be a southern thing..) But in a canister- that is a great idea!!!! Hello, Bisquick- get with it!
BTW, your blog is sensational, and I don’t know how you do it with a young family. Hats off to you!!
Ooh, I’ve never tried Pioneer Brand as I grew up on Bisquick, but would LOVE to try it. I hate that big bulky box in my pantry. I love your site, so many good recipes that I either make myself of would love to try!
Oh WOW! I have never made homemade biscuits! I think this will be something I will do with my daughter. She loves to cook and I love to let her help!
Count me in for the giveaway drawing! I’ve only tried Bisquik …
Thanks
I LOVE Pioneer Baking Mix. Lately I have needed to tighten the budget so I’ve made biscuits from scratch, but they are not always as Light and airy as the Pioneer biscuits. Please count me in on your bloggy giveaway. Thank you!
Blessings,
Kath
I found it! i went to my local Kroger today and there it was! my family has been wondering what has gotten into me as i am making these new easy recipes like crazy and they are lovin it! thanks again!
Hi,
I just found your website today and let me tell you, its wonderful!! I’m so glad I found it. We are going to be making your banana pudding on Sunday. I am also going to try out your biscuits asap bc they look delicious! Off to look at your other awesome recipes!
Amanda
very cool! i do a lot of baking but i’ve never made biscuits at home before!
I found your site today. Reading all your posts have brought me so much JOY!! Thank you for all of your hard work in putting this together. It has motivated me to make some new recepies. I am a fellow southerner from Texas who once loved to cook. But, after the birth of my youngest daughter who has been in and out of the hospital, I haven’t had the time or motivation to cook real meals.
Your casseroles are going to save my family from eating anymore frozen junk. Your whitt and humor means so much to me. Thanks again, you just won’t ever know how much joy I have received reading all of your stories.
A happy mama in Texas,
Adrian
I just love your blog. I check it daily and my family is very happy that I do!!
I need to learn how to make biscuits!
They look great, Im having friends over tonight and i can’t wait to bake some for them!
I have tried several of your recipes and all have been BIG hits with my family. I can’t wait to try these biscuits. It looks easy, and that’s what I like
I’m making the pork chops with saffron rice tonight.
My two daughters-in-law just can’t seem to be able to make “home-made” biscuits, which my sons truly love. Maybe this recipe will fool them into thinking that they can bake as well as their sweet ole’ southern mother-in-law!
Now – if you had a really good redeye gravy recipe that that I could serve with these biscuits – yum!