19
2011
DIY Knockoff Bisquick – Baking Mix Recipe
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When I was planning my menus this week, I was grabbing some new recipes from one of my favorite cookbooks in an effort to widen our meal horizons without really varying too far. My meat-and-potatoes husband likes to branch out to new foods slowly. He’s really come a long way in the past almost-7 years, but that’s a story for another day.
Anyway, a bunch of my recipes ended up calling for baking mix. I don’t know if I’m just trying to be difficult this week or if it’s just because I had all the ingredients on hand, but I decided to go ahead and make my own baking mix instead of picking up a box at the store. Maybe it was also because the fewer items you buy when you’re in the store alone with a three-year old and a two-month old always makes for a way better shopping trip. So here’s my recipe…
This recipe is for a homemade baking mix (like Bisquick) that is suitable to use in recipes calling for baking mix. It's a handy pantry ingredient for biscuits, pancakes and crepes too.
Ingredients
- 10 cups flour
- 8 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 1/4 cups powdered milk (1 envelope that makes a quart of milk)
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 1/4 cups shortening
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients.
- Stir well.
- Add shortening.
- With clean hands, cut the shortening into the flour by squishing it together with your fingers.
- Combine all the flour with the shortening until you have fine crumbs.
- Store in a cool place - it makes about 17 cups, so I put it in a 16 cup storage container and bake with the left out cup the same day.
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