Jackie Garvin

A solid cookbook whose best recipes are the basic biscuit ones right at the start. Both the Buttermilk Biscuits and the Baking Soda Biscuits turned out super well for me, and I'm adding the recipes to my personal collection! If you want to take just a little something from this book, I'd recommend reading Garvin's brief opening about biscuit history and then trying these two recipes.
I think some of the other flavored biscuits weren't as strong; for example, the garlic cheddar biscuits were made twice but neither round produced very tasty results. Also, I was a little disappointed to find a surprising amount of the recipes just said to use pre-made canned biscuits?? There was a recipe for monkey bread (which is a personal favorite of mine) that I would have love to made from scratch but skipped because I didn't want to use canned biscuits.
But again, the basic recipes were just so good, and Garvin gave very helpful technical advice, so someone like me who had never really attempted homemade Southern biscuits really benefited from it. :)
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