CHAPTER 20 - Reunited and it Feels so Wood

Looking up, they saw a huge spaceship descending on the clearing, its rocket boosters scorching the grass.  Dan and Freddie looked at each other and hightailed it into the trees.  They could feel the heat behind them, so they ran until they couldn’t.

When the roaring stopped, they turned.  The outer trees were smoldering and wilted, what was left of the grass was burning.  Freddie knew those in the ship would have to run a series of tests before disembarking, so until then she and Dan stomped out grassfires and stripped the trees of some of the more smoldery branches.

Then Freddie peered toward the spaceship.  “Let’s go meet the ship.”

“We just ran away from the ship.”

“Yes, that’s because its engines were trying to kill us. We can either spend our time here avoiding them, or meet them and get it over with.  Most importantly, they’ll have more food than we do.”

“How do we know what they eat?”

“Given the design of the ship and the likelihood that this area has been terraformed into an earth environment, I’d say they eat biscuits.”

“I like biscuits.”

BISCUITS

When we say “biscuits,” we mean the cathead biscuits we’ve been baking for decades from the recipe we found in an obscure cookbook heralding home cooking. These biscuits are monstrously delicious, kneaded and rolled out and cut into circles (or our son’s favorite shape, elephants) and baked in a steeping hot oven for 18 minutes.  Coated in a layer of butter and jam or topped with a fried egg and cheese, these biscuits are fabulous!

Technically we do violate the cathead part of the biscuit recipe by rolling out dough and cutting them instead of dropping a cathead of gooey dough onto the pan, but a cathead is harder to balance an egg on.

In addition, when we say “biscuit,” we mean “cookie” as well.  We are pro all versions of biscuits.

Do you have a favorite biscuit recipe?