Biscuits and Bacon

No time for a sit down breakfast?  That is no reason to eat crap!  Grab one of these on your way out the door.  If you make them ahead, you can eat them cold or pop them in the toaster oven for a few minutes while you do your hair.

What are these magical morsels?  Kind of like quiche, kind of like a frittata, in the end it’s really just scrambled eggs & a biscuit.

In that case, we had better make some biscuit dough.

2 Cups unbleached all purpose flour

1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon sugar

4 tablespoons chilled bacon drippings*

1 cup buttermilk or heavy cream

Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, add fat by the tablespoon, mix by hand until evenly incorporated, stir in dairy.  Roll it out about 1/4 – 1/2 inch thick.

Grease up your muffin pan (I like butter.)

Find something with about a 4″ diameter to use as a template and cut out six circles.

Stretch the circles a bit by hand, beginning to shape them in to cups before placing them in the tins.

Mix 6 eggs with a splash of cream and salt & pepper.

Place a few crumbles of bacon in each cup, pour in eggs (don’t over-fill or you will run out!) and top with grated sharp cheddar cheese.

Bake at 400° until eggs are just set.  (You want a TINY bit of movement when you shake the tray, but not much.  The eggs will firm up while they cool.  It is a fine line between runny and rubbery.)

Wrap them in a paper towel and throw them at your family as they run out the door.  Or dunk into a little sour cream.  Or take them to work and have them for lunch.

*Did I lose you with the bacon drippings?  You can use butter in it’s place, but would you just try it once?  If you cook bacon, you have bacon drippings.  It used to be common for that fat to be saved for other uses, but somehow we have stopped.  I keep a plastic container of it in the fridge and I can measure it out by the tablespoon quite easily.  It also mixes into the flour more easily because it is softer than butter.  Just try it, will ya?

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