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Cheese Harbour Biscuits by Reverse Engineering

 Now that Red Lobster® has filed for bankruptcy, we can’t be sure if or when it will be possible to get their Cheddar Bay Biscuits® fresh in the restaurant, or even the biscuit mix in the grocery store– We made some of their biscuits from the mix recently and had not quite taken the box to recycling.  Here is the box, including the ingredient list: From the ingredients, it looks like a buttermilk biscuit recipe, with shredded cheddar cheese added to the dough, and a garlic herb butter sauce to be poured on top at the last minute. Our 1964 Joy of Cooking Cookbook has a buttermilk biscuit recipe on page 584.   The box of mix makes only ten biscuits.  Joy of Cooking makes “24 x 1.5 inch biscuits,” so we’ll have to expand the amount of cheese and butter to make 24: Preheat oven to 425 F. Put parchment paper on a cookie sheet. Sift together: 1.75 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp salt 2 tsp double-acting baking powder 1 tsp sugar ½ tsp baking soda Cut in: 5 tbsp butter Add: 2/3 t