A Box of Bisquick in Every Cupboard?

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Bisquick photo by Breadchick from The Sour Dough.

It all started when Mimi from French Kitchen in America reacted to a bit of food snobbery. Mimi was reading the food blogs and noticed a fellow blogger had been criticized for using a Rachel Ray recipe that involved Bisquick. Mimi's good-hearted nature was engaged and her brain started to work, and pretty soon Bisquick Day was born.

It's not about defending Bisquick, nor is it that Mimi was especially a fan of the bubbly Ms. Ray. It's about the idea of being kind to fellow bloggers. Such kindness could easily extend to food bloggers refraining from public criticism of other food bloggers, couldn't it? If you don't like what some else cooks, just don't cook such things yourself, right? Apparently Mimi wasn't the only person who thought so, and more than a couple of bloggers had fun showing what they could make from Bisquick and making a statement against food blog snobbery in the process.

Visit the Bisquick Day Roundup at French Kitchen in America to see all the recipes, but here are a few that caught my eye.

Tanna at The Half Cup wondered if she was risking arrest by the food blog police when she made Onion Cheese Supper Bread.

Sher at What Did You Eat certainly proved she was not a food snob when she decided to post this recipe, but only because someone triple dog dared her to do it.

The blogging team at My Husband Cooks rose to the challenge to create something interesting with Bisquick with their Bisquick and Beer Fried Fish.

Finally, a bit of history was offered by Breadchick from The Sour Dough, who made a pretty fantastic looking Impossible Coconut Pie and shared this history of Bisquick:

According to Bisquick and Harvey House lore, in 1930 a General Mills executive named Carl Smith was traveling on the Southern Pacific (Havery House was the company that ran the food services for railroads from the late 1800 - 1960s) and ordered a late night dinner. He was served a hot meal that included two fluffly and freshly baked biscuits. Mr. Smith realized that the chef had used a pre-made mixture of shortening, baking powder, and flour to make the biscuits. All the way back to Minneapolis, Carl Smith was thinking how he could bring this concept of instant biscuit mix that wouldn’t go rancid to every American kitchen. When he got back to Minneapolis, he brought his idea to the test kitchens of Betty Crocker, who is part of General Mills, and in 1931 Betty Crocker’s Bisquick was born with the slogan “He Deserves Fresh Bisquick Biscuits Tonight”.

Contributing editor Kalyn Denny also blogs at Kalyn's Kitchen and is relieved that she has no idea who wrote the original post that started the Bisquick Day protest.