Sloppy Joes on Biscuits

Sloppy Joes on Biscuits

4 oz lean ground beef

TT chopped onion

TT chopped celery

½ cup crushed tomatoes

 1/4 cup ketchup

 1 tablespoon white vinegar

TT brown sugar

TT Worcestershire sauce

TT salt

 TT garlic powder

 Bisquits

Procedure:

Place ground beef in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook until evenly browned, stirring to crumble. I like to use a potato masher to even out the lumps. Add onion and celery cover the pan, and cook until tender and transparent, about 5 minutes. Drain off any grease.

Stir the tomato soup (undiluted), ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar and Worcestershire sauce into the beef mixture. Season with salt and garlic powder. Heat to a simmer over low heat, and cook until thoroughly heated, stirring frequently to prevent it from burning on the bottom.

Spoon the hot beef mixture onto biscuits and serve.

Biscuits Recipe

 Ingredients

1 cup flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoons butter

1 tablespoons shortening

1/2 cup buttermilk chilled

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.

Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey, that's life.)

Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.