Okay, I’ll admit it. I had never had a homemade biscuit until just a few short years ago. There were biscuits in my youth, it was just that they usually came in a refrigerated cardboard tube, and the young Adrienne, all bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked loved those biscuits any which way she could get them. My mom would open the tube with a whining peel, and out would pop a roll of dough, all perforated for easy handling. A few short minutes in the oven, and the house would smell like bread, and a warm biscuit would be resting on my dinner plate.
What can I say…it was California (not a place typically known for its homemade biscuits, fresh produce– yes, biscuits– no) and it was the ’80’s, an era of ease. And when I grew up, I actually tried several recipes for real [...]

When was the last time that you had some Ovaltine? Well I can tell you, for me, it had been ages, years, perhaps even decades. As I get older, I am just not much of a milk drinker, and yes, I know about calcium, bone density, etc. But… I don’t drink much milk, and that means I have rather forgotten about malted milk powders, or other items that you mix into milk. Shame on me. I had forgotten about one of the most delicious aspects of being a child. That is until, while glancing through Donna Hay’s Modern Classics 2, I stumbled upon her recipe for Malted Oat and Raisin Biscuits.
I ran out to buy a jar of Ovaltine, and the memories came flooding back. In elementary school, my best friend was a classmate named Julie. We had the sort [...]