i came into the studio one day to find rebecca boxing up and mailing several 5 pound bags of white lily flour. rebecca’s mom, who now lives in brooklyn was stocking up on the southern made flour.
white lily four has been used for over 125 years making it’s way into several generations of recipes. the flour has a lower protien content making the lightest biscuits, which are daily staple to some southerners. in 2006, the white lily company was bought and had many southern bakers in an uproar as the company moved north. you can read a NY times article here explaining the impact of white lily flour company leaving the south.
following is our variation of a “white lily” biscuit recipe
ingredients
2 cups white lily, unbleached self-rising flour
1/4 cup butter, chilled
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3/5 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup butter, for brushing
2 Tbsp honey (more for sweeter), for brushing
directions
-heat oven to 500 degrees
-make the brushing butter: in a small saucepan melt the butter and add honey and stir together
-in a blender or food processor, cut in the butter to the flour (by pulsing) until it resembles pea gravel (do not overwork)
-stir in the buttermilk, you don’t want the dough to stick to sides of bowl, add more flour if it is
-on a floured surface, roll out dough until about 1/4 inch thick
-brush a light coat of honey butter over dough
-fold dough in half, roll our until about 1/4 inch, brush again
-fold dough in half and lightly roll so that dough is about 1/2 inch
-with a floured biscuit cutter or floured glass or jar cut the biscuits into your desired size
-on a sheet covered with parchment paper, place the biscuites 1 inch apart
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-bake 8-10 minutes or until tops are slightly brown
******serve with honey lavender butter by mixing 1/4 cup room temp butter with 3 Tbsp honey and 1 Tbsp lavender flowers, chill in fridge until ready to serve
Bless her Brooklyn mom’s heart. Last year I was planning on baking some Southern Cakes for an event in NYC and asked my friends, Matt Lee and Ted Lee (a.k.a. The Lee Bros.), who run a business selling Southern products on line, if it was possible to find White Lilly in the city. Ted replied, “yes, there is a tiny bag of it, shrink-wrapped and in the cooler at Dean and Deluca–it costs $7.00.” You just can’t make biscuits and cakes without it.
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these look delicious. such a lovely post.