There are 100 ways to make a biscuit, but after years and years of making them all different ways I have found my favorite is a combination of flour, butter, crisco, and buttermilk. I measured the stuff out in order to give you a recipe but I typically just go by the way it looks and feels and I will post a video in the comments on this facebook post where my kids helped me make them!
2 cups white lily self rising flour
3 TBLS Kerry gold butter plus more for the top of each biscuit(I am not a name brand snob but this does make a difference)
1 large scoop of Crisco (about 2TBLS)
1 cup of buttermilk
Preheat your oven 475 degrees. Make sure all of your ingredients are cold with the exception of the crisco. Put your flour into a bowl and then add the crisco and butter and use your fingers to cut the fat into the flour. Once it’s all incorporated and a sandy texture (make sure not to over do it or the butter will get too soft) add in the buttermilk. Stir until just combined. Then get a sheet of parchment paper and sprinkle with flour. Dump the mixture onto the paper and then flour your hands and pat the top until its about 1/3 of an inch thick. Then cut out your biscuits and put them in a greased cast iron skillet. Top each with a pat of butter and bake for 12-18 minutes depending on how crunchy you like your biscuits.
Lately, this idea of remorse versus repentance keeps coming up in my spirit and I just felt like I should share a few of my thoughts. If you look in the dictionary the definition for remorse and repentance is almost identical:
Remorse: deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed.
Repentance: the action of repenting; sincere regret or remorse.
I don’t think I can adequately express the difference so I will give you a Biblical example. Think about Judas. The Bible tells us that after he betrays Jesus he takes the money back. Matthew 27:3-4 says “When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. I have sinned, he said, for I have betrayed innocent blood.” We see from that verse that he was remorseful but we know following that he went out and hanged himself. See, remorse focuses on yourself. It causes us to feel shame and hopelessness. Judas didn’t see a way out from his sin. The good news about repentance is that it focuses on our hurt of others and Jesus and gives us a way to out. Repentance causes CHANGE in behavior.
Romans 2:4 tells us that it is the goodness of God that draws us to repentance. Remorse draws us to ourselves, repentance draws us to our Savior. Repentance doesn’t just say “I’m sorry” it says “this is what I will do differently moving forward.” When we look at the cross and what Jesus did for us, we see the goodness of God. What other “god” would give up his own son to be brutally beaten (to the point he was unrecognizable) and suffer and die in our place just so we could be in heaven with him? That cross was meant for us, it is the punishment for OUR sin. But God, in his kindness, sent someone to take our place. The perfect Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. If that doesn’t draw you to repentance no podcast, sermon, or book ever will. The cross is the ultimate glimpse of the love of God and in turn it SHOULD draw us to repentance. Love ya’ll!
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