Mexi-Casserole is a quick and dirty weeknight casserole with Mexican-American flavors and a flaky biscuit crust. In many ways it fits the archetype of post-war convenience food: ground meat, mixed canned goods, and a Bisquick topping. If you can brown hamburger you can make Mexi-Casserole. At the center of the dish is a packet of……
Ingredient: Bisquick
Biscuit-topped Bulgarian Lamb Stew (adapted from Smart Shopper’s Cookbook, 1972)
Biscuit-topped Bulgarian Lamb Stew is a hearty, simply seasoned lamb stew from Loyta Wooding’s 1972 Smart Shopper’s Cookbook. As I’ve noted elsewhere, in twenty-first century terms a lamb stew doesn’t seem to fit with the strict-budget ethos of Smart Shopper’s Cookbook. Lamb consumption has dropped precipitously since the 1960s and in modern markets lamb is……
Bisquick Taco Pie (Indiana, 1992, adapted)
Bisquick Taco Pie is a nifty little weeknight casserole from a 1992 cookbook compiled by the Hebron Indiana Order of the Eastern Star. I’m not sure whether Masonic traditions involve potlucks, but this is a brilliant old-school potluck dish. It’s a variant on a biscuit-topped shepherd’s pie, jazzed up with some Americanized Mexican flavors. In……