Cocktail Biscuits
Recipe
- Title:
- Cocktail Biscuits
- Categories:
- Appetizers
- Yield:
- 1 servings
Ingredients
- 1/8 c Flour, unbleached
- 6
- Shallots, minced
- 3 tb Baking powder
- 1 3/4 c Ham, finely chopped
- 1 3/4 c Unsalted butter
- 7
- Green onions, finely chopped
- 1/4 c Plus 2 tb Crisco
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 1 1/2 c Milk
- 1/4 ts Black pepper
- 3 c Minced fresh mushrooms
Directions
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Ingredients
HERB CREAM CHEESE INGREDIENT
- 16 oz Cream cheese
- 1 1/2 ts Fresh chives
- 3 tb Half and half
- 1/4 ts Hot sauce
- 1/4 c Chopped fresh dillweed
- 1/4 ts Black pepper
- 3
- Cloves garlic
Directions
- Biscuits: Combine flour, baking powder, and 1 teaspoon salt.
- Cut in 1 1/2 cups butter and shortening with pastry blender until mixture looks like corn meal.
- Add milk stirring until mixture forms a dough.
- Cover with plastic wrap.
- Chill 8 hours.
- Put remaining 1/4 cup cup butter in a large skillet.
- Cook over medium heat until butter melts.
- Saute' mushrooms and shallots in butter until tender.
- Add ham, onions, 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper.
- Cook 4 minutes.
- Combine dough and mushroom mixture, kneading until well blended.
- Shape dough into 1 inch balls and put on greased baking sheets.
- Press thumb into each biscuit.
- Bake 12 to 14 minutes at 450 degrees or untill brown.
- Let cool and spread 1 teaspoon Herb cream cheese mix onto each indention.
- Yields 8 dozen.
Directions
- Herb Cream Cheese: combine cream cheese, half and half in a medium bowl, stirring well.
- Add other ingredients and mix well.
- Cover and chill 8 hours to mix flavors.
- Yields 2 cups.
Directions
- Note: This recipe appeared in the Waycross (Georgia) Journal-Herald 17th Annual Cookbook November 16, 1990 and was submitted by Ms.
- Lorraine Jacobs of Nahunta, Georgia.
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