BISQUICK BISCUITS

Did I ever tell you about my experience with making Bisquick biscuits for the State Fair? For a couple of years, my sister and I were in a 4-H club called The Busy Fingers. Our leaders were a mother and daughter team and they devoted an afternoon every week to teach us the basics of homemaking. It was a fun and yet a difficult experience for me because sometimes, being the young girl that I was, I just "didn't get it!" The goal of our leaders was to enter our Bisquick biscuits in the State Fair. Week after week, we would practice making perfect Bisquick biscuits--actually, I don't remember making anything but Bisquick biscuits! The older leader was an old no-nonsense woman who had little patience for the likes of me. One time I was measuring the flour and had emptied everything from the sieve into the bowl except the remaining flour in the rim. So, I turned the sieve over and dumped the remaining flour in. By the time she got through with me, I was determined to never, never, never dump unsifted flour into a bowl gain—not for the rest of my life! Anyway, that is beside the point. The State Fair finally came and we baked up a storm of Bisquick biscuits. I just knew that mine would take 1st place for sure and at the least 2nd place. Well would it surprise you to find out that my biscuits took 3rd place. Boy, that was a disappointment. I guess I could have become discouraged for the rest of my life and determined to never make Bisquick biscuits again. Actually, I'm not sure if I have ever made them again. They are not all that good. Anyway, my point is that I could have become discouraged and decided to never to cook or bake again. That would have been foolish on my part. I actually learned a lot from those biscuits. I learned to measure, mix and fold flour, to crack eggs, and to bake biscuits to just the right golden-brown. Accomplishments do not mean that we have to come in 1st or 2nd—they just mean that we have to learn from them.