We had waffles for breakfast this morning. There is a great site out there called Hillbilly Housewife where I have found some great recipes. One is for homemade baking mix (also known as Bisquick). The recipe is super easy and it's much cheaper than buying the box stuff. Here's how we make it:
5 cups of self-rising flour
1 cup of shortening
Throw everything into a big bowl and mix it up with your hands. You're finished when you can squeeze it together and it clumps. Also, it looks like Bisquick :).
Now, for my two cents worth. It's worth it to buy self-rising flour for this. I was all about just using all purpose flour and adding what I needed, but to be honest, I've found that my biscuits rise better when I use self-rising flour...so that's what I buy. But only for this...everything else is all purpose.
Okay, so for our waffles. We used 2 cups of baking mix, 1 beaten egg, 1 tsp. of vanilla and enough buttermilk to make a pretty thick batter. Sorry not to be more exact, but I was just in the mood to pour and stir this morning.
Here's the price breakdown. Figuring that a batch of baking mix costs $1.30 to make, and I used 1/3 for the waffles, then that is $.43 for the baking mix. Assuming that I used 1 cup of buttermilk, that's another $.30. The vanilla is $.05 per teaspoon. And an egg costs about $.07. We did top our waffles with butter and syrup. 4 tablespoons of butter is $.25 and 1/4 of a bottle of syrup is $.25. My husband and daughter each had a glass of milk, so that's another $.30.
Baking mix $.43
Buttermilk $.30
Vanilla $.05
Egg $.07
Butter $.25
Syrup $.25
Milk $.30
Total $1.65 to feed a family of 3 (that's $.55 per serving!)
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