No Orrell’s beaten biscuits on Thanksgiving tables this year
Orrell’s Maryland beaten biscuits won’t be making their annual appearance on Thanksgiving tables this year.
The Beaten Biscuit Mystery
I ate my first beaten biscuit so long ago I haven’t a clue when it was – I was a mere child at the time. Now, I have to hope I haven’t eaten my last.
Wye Mills native son Dick Orrell dies at 83
The town of Wye Mills has lost one of its most ardent supporters and a true native son.
A biscuit that can’t be beat
Not long ago, the dough for a Maryland beaten biscuit was pounded with an ax handle or baseball bat against the top of a tree stump to get the air bubbles out.
The biscuit beating goes on
In a yellow house in this tiny Eastern Shore town, six women gather around a long, rectangular table to make biscuits the old-fashioned way.
Ham Biscuits, Plain and Simple
At a church social in Wye Mills, Md., country ham is far more likely to be served on a firm, “beaten” biscuit.
Hard-to-beat Biscuits
Before eating Orrell’s Maryland beaten biscuits, I had not been a fan of the genre. Most of the beaten biscuits I had tried to bite into had been tough enough to crack a molar.
AT THE NATION’S TABLE; Wye Mills, Md.
IF anyone can be called Maryland’s beaten-biscuit maven, it is Ruth Orrell. Mrs. Orrell has been making the hard, dense southern specialty for most of her 87 years, and selling them for more than 50.
THE MARYLAND BEATEN BISCUIT
Mr. President, one of the great cultural contributions of Maryland to the culinary arts is the beaten biscuit, one of the great favorites of the present occupant of the Chair.
Beaten Biscuits
The potential of the Maryland beaten biscuit has somehow been overlooked in the current national furor over the perils of nuclear war.