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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 to 3/4 cup Buttermilk
3/4 cup shredded sharp Cheddar Cheese

Mix until just mixed - Do not over-mix.

Scoop 1/4 cup of dough for each biscuit onto parchment paper on a  baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.
Bake 14 to 16 minutes.

Butter Sauce:
Melt 3/4 stick (90 ml) butter in the microwave.
Add :
1/4 tsp Garlic Powder
1/4 tsp Onion Powder
½ tsp Dried Parsely flakes
Pour butter sauce on biscuits and serve immediately.

Note:  Red Lobster and Cheddar Bay Biscuits are the trademarks and property of the Red Lobster restaurant corp-- and in future, of whoever ends up with ownership after the bankruptcy.  
These are NOT Cheddar Bay Biscuits(R), nor is this the actual, very secret recipe for those biscuits.  

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