Home Sweet Home #256

Hello and welcome to Home Sweet Home!  This week I shared a Winter Tea '16.

And I was baking for all of us out there with autoimmune disorders in Potato Biscuits.

There are so many great ideas, decorating, and delicious recipes at the Home Sweet Home Party each week.   All of you are so very talented!  Here are a few that caught my eye. I pin a lot from this party each week! These features were all pinned!

Pam at Everyday Living shared some great Instagram accounts in Let's Get Social!  I loved this account! 

Angelina at Peonies and Orange Blossoms shared Barbour Beadnell Coat Review and Style Ideas.  I love English country style and fashion.  I learned to sew years ago to copy Princess Diana's fashions.

Mimi at 247 Mulberry Lane shared  Wordless Wednesday where she just took photos of her cozy January decor. 

Liz at The Porcelain Rose shared: Divine-Ruffles, Lace and Ribbonwork.  Where she shared her gorgeous vintage pillow collection.

I am really lucky to have all of your amazing posts because, it is you who make the Home Sweet Home party so special!  You are all so talented and share such wonderful posts! Thank you to everyone who joins me at Home Sweet Home!  It is wonderful to have you here!

Sherry

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Potato Biscuits

I was photographing tea this week with this vintage Rumford Baking Powder cookbook (1908) under the tea cup and I was noticing the potato biscuit recipe while I am editing photos. 

It just so happens that I am allergic to all grains, all dairy, and nuts. So this recipe being the one I opened the cookbook to for the photo must have been a sign that I needed to try the recipe.

I get to work and make the biscuits with all potatoes and potato flour.  There is no grains, dairy, or nuts in these at all. I was mildly impressed that they cut out pretty nicely and they hold together well while you manipulate the flour.  Not the experience I have had with other flour-less baking.

They do bake up denser than flour.  Nothing but potatoes...but look at the texture when pulled apart!!  So flour-like, so bread-like, I am satisfied!  You have to realize I haven't had a piece of bread in my mouth for several years. The doctors shake their heads at me on my yearly check-ups. My blood pressure is great and my cholesterol amazing.  They shake their head as I remind them of my allergies.  "Oh yes, you have that "weird" problem."  None of them have any idea what to do with me.  I had to figure it out on my own.

So for those oddballs of us out there that have autoimmune disorders and can't eat grains this one is for you.  Maybe someone will enjoy this recipe as much as I did.  

Anytime you cook with potatoes either white or sweet I have found that the bottom of the baking will be browner than with flour.  

But, that didn't keep me form enjoying the first biscuit I have had in my mouth for over five years.  I drizzled honey on every...last...bite. 

Ingredients:

1 large sized potato, peeled, boiled, and mashed

1 cup of potato flour

1  1/2 teaspoons Rumford aluminum free baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons lard

1 egg

about 1/2 cup potato water, from boiling (replaces milk)

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

Peel, chop, and boil your potato.  Then mash it making it free from lumps.  Add the flour, salt, baking powder, and potatoes. Stir in the lard and potato water.  Mix all with the egg and roll out of a potato floured surface.  Cut with biscuit cutter.  Bake on parchment paper lined baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 14-15 minutes.
Yield: 6 biscuits

I am going to continue to search for recipes like this I can adapt and share with you.  I often do have the most luck baking from scratch and using vintage cookbooks.  They are the gold standard really in this modern time when food is hard to identify as food anymore.  

This is one place to look where I have shared all of my healthy recipes.  They should all be dairy, grain, and nut free.  Look at the texture on that biscuit!  I am still excited about finding this recipe.  I actually took two of these biscuits and made hamburger buns with them.  That was a rare treat for me.

Happy baking! 

Sherry

Home Sweet Home #206

Hello and welcome to Home Sweet Home.  This week I was under the weather so I shared Some Past Valentine Looks.

I also shared My Allergy Story to help others and to use as a reference point for later posts. 

There are so many great ideas, great decorating, and delicious recipes at the Home Sweet Home Party each week.   You all had a lot of great post! Here are a few that caught my eye.

Cathy at My 1929 Charmer shared A Little Bit of Winter Wonderland.

Linda at Coastal Charm shared The New Look at Coastal Charm Interiors...Part 2.

Rebekah at Ready To Be Offered shared a poem she wrote that was beautiful: Time.

Julie at Little Farmstead shared her Rustic Linen Ruffled Bedding that her Mother custom made for her.  What a great Mom you have Julie! It is gorgeous! 

I had on several occasions wanted to feature some of your entries but, you don't create a link back to the Home Sweet Home party.  So, please include that link so I can feature you too!

I am really lucky to have all of your amazing posts because, it is you who make the Home Sweet Home party so special!  You are all so talented and share such wonderful posts!  It is really hard to feature a few and, remember to be featured you must have a link back to the Home Sweet Home party.   Thank you to everyone who joins me at home Sweet Home!  It is wonderful to have you here!

Sherry

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Attention: To link up you must have a permalink back to this party in your post or you won't be featured.

Link up anything in your home or garden.   I love seeing home tours and neat shops too!

My button is on my sidebar for the party, if you want to use it.   If you are new here I hope you will become a follower. Please don't link up more than two posts.  No Etsy link ups or direct advertising, please.  Please visit some of the other blogs and get some great inspiration.  Thanks.:)
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