Recipe

Mountain Country Cat Head Biscuits As Big As A Cats Head Recipe

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Ingredients

Cat Head Biscuits (as big as a cat’s head)

2 cups of flour

1/4 teaspoon of baking soda

2 teaspoons of baking powder

1 teaspoon of salt

5 tablespoons of lard or shortening

About 1 cup of buttermilk

Sift the dry ingredients together and cut in the lard or shortening. Add enough buttermilk to make a soft dough.

Pinch off about a lemon sized ball of dough for each biscuit and pat out with your hands.

Bake for 12 – 15 minutes at 450 degrees or until the tops are golden brown.

Remove the biscuits form the oven and put butter on the tops of the hot biscuits to coat.

Directions

Picture is of a big ole plate of 'cats' full of good ole' Virginia Ham.

Often times the cooks would take treats like this out to the field

with big jugs of iced tea and kegs of water for the hard workers

in the fields about mid afternoon.

Some cooks would get sort of silly and make them in a cats head

shape.

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Comments

jett2whit 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Meow-valous!! I had a recipe for these so long ago that I forgot about it. Thanks for posting!

krumkake 1 year, 4 months ago said:
What a great post, lana - love the story behind it! And if you could send me some of that good old Virginia ham for some sandwiches on these delicious biscuits, I'd be your best friend forever!!!!

bluewaterandsand 1 year, 4 months ago said:
An oldie but a goodie that we all love! My grandmother told me a story about these to. She said they would be so many workers that they had to feed at breakfast, that all the ladies made the biscuits big enough to hold ham or other meats, so that one would fill them up. My grandmother got into the habit of making them big all the time. She said some woment started making the biscuits look like catheads as a joke. I'm not sure if thats true but it was fun to listen to her stories.

lanacountry 1 year, 4 months ago said:
It is a true story Bluewaters!! :) Just another
version I told.. JB & I used to go to a lil restaurant here in the mountain years ago that
served ONE biscuit with 'sawmill gravy' and a big ole sausage ..(yep thats what they called it) as a whole meal!

lanacountry 1 year, 4 months ago said:
I didn't know you all would want to see these crazy old OLD recipes, and just took a chance..
Thanks all! :)

britnik 1 year, 4 months ago said:
These sound amazing, what a great post!

laadeedaa 1 year, 4 months ago said:
These sound like our family southern biscuits that have been made for generations. Thanks so much for posting it because I lost the original recipe. You are WONDERFUL!

keni 1 year, 4 months ago said:
I've been sharin' this one for ages on another site...just the classic cat head....no fuss, no rolling, no cutting...just barely mix, barely knead(if you can even call it that ;) and you bake...I'll only add, use your cast iron! ;) Thanks for the post...now I prolly won't bother posting it...I'll just link to yours if the question comes up! :)

herby 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Never heard of this but looks great

lanacountry 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Thank you all so much for your nice rating and comments on my recipes.
Mine are mostly just like my name..country!!
Blessings!
Lana

lunasea 1 year, 4 months ago said:
I grew up with those famous cat head biscuits. I never really quizzed why they called them that...I guess I always thought it was because the biscuits were the size of a cat's head. But we sure loved/love those big ol' hot biscuits with butter....and I just saw your sawmill gravy recipe. *Swoon*....that's what I call eatin'. Thanks so much. Hope you're havng a great weekend! :) Vickie

momo_55grandma 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Hey Lana gonna have catheads in the morning with sausage gravey. yum maybe some blackberry jam and butter too. High 5 thanks buddy.

shuga 1 year, 4 months ago said:
How fun!

noir 1 year, 3 months ago said:
Terrific! :)

blueeyes68ky 1 year, 2 months ago said:
I have a feeling that grandma made biscuits like that.

taylorsue82 8 months, 2 weeks ago said:
These are fantastic, I make them a few times a week, my family loves them.

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