When is National Buttermilk Biscuit Day?
Sunday May 14thEvery year, in the United States, National Buttermilk Biscuit Day is celebrated on May 14. Today is a food holiday devoted to the biscuit.
Biscuits are made using baking powder or baking soda as a leavening agent rather than yeast. A common buttermilk biscuit recipe calls for flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, and buttermilk. They are often described as "quick bread," implying that they do not need to rise before baking and do not need to rise before baking.
Biscuits were introduced by cooks as a cheap alternative to meals prior to the American Civil War. While baking, the dough was beaten and folded to include air, which increased as baking caused the biscuit to rise. The biscuit soon became popular, as the people realized the hardness of the biscuit, not to a slice of bread, was able to wipe up gravy on their plates, resulting in the well-known dish, biscuits and gravy.
In 1875, Alexander P. Ashbourne invented the first biscuit cutter, which was patent by Alexander P. Ashbourne.
dy-to-bake biscuits that can be purchased in small refrigerated cylindrical segments of dough in a cardboard can. These refrigerator biscuits were first introduced by Ballard and Ballard in 1931.
