Cat heads

[MurraysMutts]

Easy peasy

4 cups SELF RISING flour
4 tablespoons crisco
1½ to 1¾ cup Buttermilk
¼ stick of butter for brushing on

Cut the Crisco into the flour.

Oven at @475°F (my oven runs hot so I use 465°F)
Gonna cook about 15 to 25 minutes.
Brush butter on AFTER cooking or they'll burn.

When you get a good sticky dough (I use my hands, not a spoon) tear off 8 similar sized hunks and place em in the GREASED pie plate. You can kinda smoosh em together a bit if u like.

These are good and heavy. So everyone needs to be hungry. Really good with sausage gravy. But I like em with my dinner just about anytime as well. Moist with a good crust. And lots of salted butter.

 

[greybeard]

Catheads mean something completely different to oilfield hands...

 

[MurraysMutts]

Catheads mean something completely different to oilfield hands...

There was a discussion some time ago about tomato gravy. But no one came up with a recipe for the gravy or the catheads.
I've been eating these a while now.

Ol @HDRider seemed a bit perplexed. Where did he run off to anyway?

 

[puzzled in oregon]

I hurried up and tuned in because I thought you were going to share photos of hunting trophies.

 

[greybeard]

When you get a good sticky dough (I use my hands, not a spoon) tear off 8 similar sized hunks and place em in the GREASED pie plate

This is why they're called cathead biscuits. You tear & twist the stiff sticky dough off just like you would tear a cat's head off..assuming one was in fact leaning toward doing that to a feline..

"smooshing them together" makes them rise higher...leaving them farther apart allows them to spread out more and not rise as high.

 

[MurraysMutts]

This is why they're called cathead biscuits. You tear & twist the stiff sticky dough off just like you would tear a cat's head off..assuming one was in fact leaning toward doing that to a feline..

"smooshing them together" makes them rise higher...leaving them farther apart allows them to spread out more and not rise as high.

these were quite tall. And oh so delicious!

 

[Dave]

I thought you was talking about something on the menu at a Chinese restaurant

 

[greybeard]

 

[EasTex]

Man those look delicious Murray! Put the white gravy with sausage, splash of tobasco over and whew doggie!

 

[Hereford2]

I looked at this topic, just to see if there was actually a recipe for cat heads lol. I was going to share it with certain people..

 

[coachg]

I’ll see if I can find my mothers tomato gravy recipe

 

[tex452]

I bake homemade bread, but I will have to try cat heads for sure.
My mother and grandmother always had homemade bread, it was so good compared to anything else.
What I bake isn’t bad. and it smells so good while baking.

 

[MurraysMutts]

I bake homemade bread, but I will have to try cat heads for sure.
My mother and grandmother always had homemade bread, it was so good compared to anything else.
What I bake isn't bad. and it smells so good while baking.

 

[Ky hills]

Reminds me of the Appalachian meal of, fried ol’ ham, with red eye gravy and cat head biscuits.
My family didn’t do the red eye gravy though, it didn’t have the coffee in it just a real thin watery consistency of the ham drippings, was kind of reddish though.

 

[Lucky_P]

No Crisco in my biscuits... half butter & half lard(or cold bacon grease)

 

[coachg]

Wife doesn't have a tomato gravy recipe but has made it before. She said it’s just traditional gravy ( milk , flour , bacon grease/oil) then add onions and tomatoes chopped up .

 

[greybeard]

No Crisco in my biscuits... half butter & half lard(or cold bacon grease)

The key is COLD otherwise they don't combine with the flour and come out of the oven greasy.

I make kolaches sometime from scratch with flour and yeast (it's a two or three day process) and some times using Rhodes frozen bread loaves. Those loaves are not a bad substitute for real home baked bread either. Smell pretty dang good while baking but not as good as true home baked from scratch bread.

 

[Warren Allison]

Wife doesn't have a tomato gravy recipe but has made it before. She said it's just traditional gravy ( milk , flour , bacon grease/oil) then add onions and tomatoes chopped up .

Make it like regular white gravy, just add a can of diced or crushed tomatoes. I like using the Italian flavored ones from Kroger, because they are a little sweet.

 

[coachg]

Make it like regular white gravy, just add a can of diced or crushed tomatoes. I like using the Italian flavored ones for Kroger, because they are a little sweet.

And chopped up onions

 

[Silver]

Catheads mean something completely different to oilfield hands...

I was expecting this thread about cables and sheaves and such.