Chapter 16
Section 16 of Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cookbook, 157 Recipes and Ideas. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cookbook, 157 Recipes and Ideas by Betty Crocker. Hot from the oven. Buttons and bonnuts.
Like donuts, but you twist them and bake them. The holes, too. Two cups Bisquick. Two tablespoons sugar. One teaspoon nutmeg. One eighth teaspoon cinnamon.
Two thirds cup cream or top milk. Or one half cup milk. One egg. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Moderately hot. Mix Bisquick, sugar, spices.
Add cream, egg. Mix well. Dust hands and board lightly with Bisquick. Knead two or three times. Keep dough soft. Roll out one half inch thick.
Cut with donut cutter dipped in Bisquick. Save holes to bake. Hold opposite sides of ring with fingers. Twist to make figure eight. Pat scraps together, reroll and cut.
Place on baking sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown. Melt one quarter cup butter. Measure one half cup sugar into small bowl. Immediately after baking, dip each quickly in butter, then in sugar, coating all sides.
Serve warm. Makes about 10. Sugar buns. Spoon above dough into greased muffin cups, filling each half full. Bake about 15 minutes.
Dip in butter and sugar. Butterscotch date pecan muffins. Drop into each of 12 greased medium muffin cups, one half tablespoon butter, one half tablespoon brown sugar, two or three pecan halves. Fold one cup cut up dates into muffin batter. Spoon into prepared muffin cups.
Bake. Bacon cheese muffins. Make muffin batter. Except fold in two tablespoons crisp cooked diced bacon and one half cup grated sharp yellow cheese. Bake.
Prune apricot or pineapple coffee cake. Make coffee cake batter. Except sprinkle two tablespoons melted butter and one quarter cup white or brown sugar over batter. For prune topping use three quarter teaspoon cinnamon. Arrange over top one cup chopped drained cooked prunes or apricots or one cup drained crushed pineapple.
Bake. Serve hot. Banana coffee cake. Make coffee cake batter. Except add one cup mashed fully ripe bananas in place of milk.
Bake. Lemon coffee cake. Make coffee cake batter. Melt one tablespoon butter. Mix in one half cup sugar and one tablespoon grated lemon rind.
Sprinkle over batter. Bake. Twenty five minutes. End of section 16.
