Orange biscuits from Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking (page 89) by Toni Tipton-Martin

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  • e_efglh1 on April 07, 2026

    A nice tea biscuit. I cannot be trusted around them. Great way of using up oranges as well as a homemade marmalade I had on hand. On my second batch I added more orange juice to the dough to get more orange flavour.

  • ashallen on February 02, 2022

    My biscuits looked very much like lholtzman's photo, but I'm not sure they turned out as they were supposed to since the dough needed an extra 6 tbsp cream to come together. Even then it was quite dry and crumbly vs. "slightly sticky" and "pulling away from side of the bowl" as described in recipe. Perhaps it was my unbleached AP flour and the very dry winter air we have now. Biscuits were tender, moist, and nicely flaky but a bit heavier than I prefer, perhaps due to that extra cream. I used the 9-inch square pan called for in recipe but found the instruction about "leaving no space between" biscuits confusing since there's no way the unbaked biscuits could completely fill a pan that size. I'm guessing author just meant to space them out evenly. They needed 5-10 extra minutes to fully bake (probably the cream again!). I used bitter orange marmalade which was OK - it'd be nice to try these with a sweeter jam. Leftovers held well to next day - definitely best reheated vs. cold.

  • Lepa on June 28, 2020

    This is such a unique and delicious recipe. The biscuit kneading and rolling technique worked well and solved the problem I usually have, which is too many crumbly bits that won't come together. The resulting biscuits were tender and delicious. I loved serving these for breakfast and expect this to become a regular treat in our house. I didn't end up with twelve biscuits. Instead, I got nine. Maybe I didn't roll the dough out thinly enough (but the end result is perfect so I'm not worried about it). There was too much room when I put them in a 9 inch round pan so I transferred them to an 8 x 8 pan and they fit perfectly.

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