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homemade bisquick–guest post

Dec 22nd, 2010 by

The Damsel would like to introduce one of her favorite sistah bloggers. The amazing and beautiful Jocelyn, who knows her way around an Old School kitchen. Please find her online at We Talk of Christ, We Rejoice in Christ.

Bisquick and me.  We’re tight.

I would go so far as to say that the Big B in a Box has been my crutch in the kitchen for quite some time now.  I even thought for a while there that I preferred the taste of Bisquick to other mixes….until the day that I was making my favorite coffee cake, and I realized that I was all out of this magic mixture of baking goodness.

To make it worse, I had comp’ny coming in a matter of minutes.  I decided not to panic.  Instead, I put on my Old School thinking cap and thought, “What would The Damsel do?”

She would make her own Bisquick, of course!  So, I discovered this quick and easy way to make Bisquick in a pinch.  And you know what?  After making coffee cake with my homemade “bisquick”, I realized that I liked mine better.  (But please don’t mention this to Betty Crocker or Aunt Jemima or Mrs. Butterworth.  They’re also a tight bunch, and I wouldn’t want  to hurt Bisquick’s feelings.)  Without further adeu, here’s how to make

Homemade Bisquick


First gather these four ingredients:

1 cup of flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp shortening




Once you’ve got the ingredients in one bowl, you simply cut the shortening into the dry ingredients.  Stay with me now, this is the easy part.
But first you need to acquire a special, ancient tool to complete this task:


It’s called a fork.

Some people would use a pastry cutter, like this one:

Professional Stainless Steel Pastry Blender or Knife

but the shortening is such a small amount that a fork will work just fine in this situation.
(Plus I can’t find mine.)

Ok, to “cut in” the shortening, just follow me…


Press your fork into the shortening repeatedly…


until it begins to mix with the dry ingredients.


In about ten seconds, you’ll be finished and it’ll look more or less like this–slightly clumpy, but fairly mixed.  Viola!  You have made Bisquick!  Now add it to your recipe as needed and it will work just the same as the store-bought kind, and you might even prefer the taste!

The only thing to remember is that you must keep any extra homemade BQ in the fridge.

Enjoy!  And I hope you have a Merry, last-minute-run-to-the-grocery-store free Christmas!

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  • Wendy

    What a great idea!

  • http://temporaryinsanitybykym.com Kimberly

    I don't know what I love more, that you can make your own (and it's better!) or your awesome red mixing bowl.

    Total toss up.

    And a great post!

    • http://beinglds.blogspot.com Jocelyn Christensen

      Yes, the red bowl cannot be beat! It's the largest bowl that Tupperware makes…bigger than the previous largest , but the same diameter, just deeper/taller…and it's excellent for making…ANYTHING!

      • Fancy4christ

        Is that Tupperware’s largest bowl now? I stopped shopping with tupperware about 15 years ago. I wrote them a check and asked them not to cash it until friday which was 3 days away, they cashed it and it bounced. I did not know I could post date it. I was so upset!  Then they wouldn’t put it through a second time and charged me more money for fees, but gave me my order and the order was wrong, so I gave it back and it is to this day, still on my credit report. I used to spend much money on tupperware all the time. I never bought rubbermaid until this happened. Now I cannot find good rubbermaid anymore. Does any body know where good rubbermaid is? And thank you for posting this recipe, I used to make it but forgot how. This seems close.

  • Louise

    I always knew it could be done. I just never knew exactly how. This is another great Old School lesson.

  • LA Adams

    Very fun! So maybe I'll jump over and look at recipes for bisquick because I haven't really used any since I learned to make real pancakes. Nice to know there are lots of uses.

  • http://www.pitterlepostings.blogspot.com Patty ann

    I used to make this alot, maybe it is time to make it again. There are sometimes that quick is a real blessing.

  • http://serveatonce.blogspot.com Amy @ Serve At Once

    Damsel, I've made my own baking mix for a while, and I absolutely LOVE it. It saves me tons of time and money, and I should probably shout the wonders of homemade Bisquick from the rooftop.

    • the_damsel

      Cool, Amy! Shout it bravely.P.S. I love your blog name. I'm going to go take a peek.

  • http://blog.frogley.name Emily

    Yay! Thanks so much for this!

    I just used this today to make pancakes. One note though… my first test batch came out tasting a bit like shortening (which is one reason I don't like baking with shortening at all… but maybe I'm just not good at it yet), so for my second batch I used butter instead of the shortening. They turned out great!

    I probably won't be using this as a ready-made mix, because it's almost as easy to just mix up on my own, and I wouldn't go through it fast enough to justify keeping some ready-made in the fridge. But it's nice to know how to do this, so I can use this mix when I need to. :)

  • http://taraschultz.co.cc/ Tara Schultz

    I always knew it could be done. I just never knew exactly how. This is another great Old School lesson.

  • http://mormonwoman.org Michelle

    This is great. Thanks!

    OK, so a couple of questions:

    1. Do you think wheat flour would work?
    2. I'm assuming butter-flavored shortening would work? (I'm also intrigued with the idea of using butter instead. Or maybe even oil?)

  • http://www.whathefork.blogspot.com Erin R.

    I was wondering if anything could be used in place of the vegetable shortening? It is almost all soy and my poor nephew is very allergic. Thanks for the great post

  • http://beinglds.blogspot.com Jocelyn Christensen

    Hi Erin – Emily said she made it with butter instead of shortening. I don't know if that solves your problem due to dietary restrictions, but that's always an option!

  • http://www.whathefork.blogspot.com Erin R.

    Thanks so much! This should make her life much easier on those Sunday mornings when she makes him the big breakfast and he needs those extra calories a lot!

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  • http://gottoeat.blogspot.com Lynne

    I know that this was an older post, but I ran out of Bisquick and I thought to myself, "Self? Who would have a recipe for home made Bisquick? Oh! The Damsel!" And I came here, and there it was.

    Tonight's biscuits came out delicious, and my family was none the wiser about my lack of Bisquick. Huzzah, and thank you!

  • the_damsel

    Yay! That's awesome!