4.29.2008

Some Rustic Biscuits

4 comments:

tooknap press said...

I love biscuits -- each a deceptively simple universe. I like to pull the layers apart and eat each flat piece.
yours seem to be breeding! are they all the same plate? they overlap just like the flaky parts do.

& speaking of layers, I've been reading about making puff pastry -- like in certain of RLB's breads, the recipes specify the "business letter" fold. lots of bookish parallels...

Erk said...

Is all the same bowl of biscuits. Lately, I've been really into just chopping the dough into rectangular pieces and letting them do their own things. I think Kenneth would prefer the more conventional round biscuits. When I cut them into rounds, I always end up with one misshapen loner-- a bit of dough too small to become a perfect round. I think my sadness about the loner led me to this current phase. That, and a desire for perfectly square biscuits, which is really just a desire at this point, not a pursuit. I've a lot more biscuit theory to share, but I'll save it for now.

Erk said...

Speaking of bookish parallels... I just discovered the song "Library Book" by Ireland's late 70's power-poppin' punksters, The Faders:

"You tell me something,
I know if it's true:
I read it. I read it.
In a library book. In a library book."

tooknap press said...

Let's write a book called simply, "Biscuit Theory." Or teach a class. I could read hundreds of pages of biscuit theory. Please to continue.