Today's Case:

Green Lantern Restaurant Cheese Biscuits

Re: Cheese Biscuit recipe from the Green Lantern
From: Janice
Date: 11/15/2023, 3:44 PM
To: Phaedrus 

On 11/15/2023 3:12 PM, Janice wrote:

The Green Lantern in Montgomery, AL served wonderful steaks.  
The restaurant closed in the 1990's.  The one item everyone loved 
was their cheese biscuits.  These were a biscuit with a piece of 
cheese melted in the middle.  I think they were possibly an angel 
biscuit?  Based on my memory, they had a bit of yeast in them.  
My husband did not recall the yeast taste, so perhaps I am wrong.  
The plain biscuits were served with your meal and the cheese 
biscuits were an extra order.  They were served with honey on the 
table.  I'm wondering if anyone has the recipe?

Thank you,
Janice  

Hi Janice,

I searched the Internet and all of my other resources, but I had no success. All that I could find was the blue cheese dressing. I saw a couple of requests for this recipe on message boards, also with no success.

I will post this for reader input.

Surely someone out there has this recipe. C'mon...

Phaed

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Re: Cheese Biscuit recipe from the Green Lantern
From: Phaedrus
Date: 1/16/2024, 10:40 AM
To: Janice

Hi Again Janice,

One of my helpful readers, Will, was able to access a graphic of the recipe that was in the Montgomery Advertiser of Nov 6, 1980. He sent it to me and I have transcribed the recipe below.

Phaed

The Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama Thu, Nov 6, 1980 

Green Lantern Cheese Biscuits 

2 cups self rising flour 
1 cup buttermilk 
8 tablespoons pure lard 
1/2 teaspoons baking powder 
1/4 teaspoons soda 
1 teaspoons sugar 

Mix all ingredients together. Knead several times. Roll out on floured 
board to one-quarter inch thick. Cut. Bake 450-500 degrees until brown, 
10-12 minutes. For cheese biscuits, slice and insert medium sharp cheese 
when biscuits are nearly done. 
Yield: 20 biscuits.

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Wow, thank you so much.  We are having chili tonight, so I’ll be trying the recipe.
Thank you for what you do!
Janice