The Diary of Southern Lifestyle Author Pat Branning

The Diary of Southern Lifestyle Author Pat Branning

Backroads and Biscuits

Seasonal fruit picked fresh and preserved in all it smashed, jammed and jellied glory helps spread the love.

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Patricia A Branning
Jul 06, 2025
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Handed down from a time when no part of the pig went to waste and bread was always a staple, country ham with a biscuit to put it on has been a tradition since South Carolina was a colony.

There’s something about a biscuit that brings you home. It’s more than flour, lard, and buttermilk—it’s a warm, flaky memory folded in layers, baked golden like the morning sun peeking through Spanish moss. And when you’re on the backroads of the South, those winding ribbons of two-lane blacktop stretching through pine forests, cotton fields, and sleepy towns, biscuits become more than food. They’re a promise. A pause. A piece of the past served up hot.

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