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How to make your best batch of biscuits

Posted on March 22, 2019
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March 22, 2019 - If there were a personality test for biscuits, it would look something like this: A map of the United States filled with pins, dusted with flour and streaked with butter, with a big honking question mark superimposed over the whole thing. Because there...

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Pillsbury Flour Recall

Posted on March 11, 2019
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March 11, 2019 —Chicago, IL — Hometown Food Company initiated a limited, voluntary retail-level recall on two specific lot codes of its Pillsbury® Unbleached All-Purpose 5 lb Flour (UPC 51500-22241) because it may be contaminated with Salmonella. Only Best If Used By Dates APR...

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Biscuit Tips from Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit

Posted on March 1, 2019
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March 2019 - Callie’s Charleston Biscuits: You’re going to want to take notes from Carrie Morey, owner of Callie’s Biscuits, because her biscuits have surely made a name for themselves in the South. These handmade biscuits come as sandwiches, birthday desserts, topped with bacon, or just simply by...

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Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits

Posted on November 22, 2018
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by milos

November 22, 2018 — For 25 years in Georgia, I watched my mom make the same batch of six light, fluffy biscuits for breakfast almost every Sunday. Then I moved to New York, never to see a light, fluffy biscuit again. I arrived in the...

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Hometown Food Company Closes the Acquisition of the Pillsbury® Shelf-Stable Baking Business, the Hungry Jack® Brand and Other Assets from The J.M. Smucker Company and Appoints Senior Management

Posted on September 4, 2018
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September 4, 2018 — Chicago, IL — Hometown Food Company (“Hometown Foods”), a wholly-owned portfolio company of Brynwood Partners VII L.P. and Brynwood Partners VIII L.P., is pleased to announce that it has closed the transaction to acquire a portfolio of brands from The...

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Brynwood Partners Agrees to Acquire the Pillsbury® Shelf-Stable Baking Business, the Hungry Jack® Brand and Other Assets from The J.M. Smucker Company

Posted on July 9, 2018
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July 9, 2018 — Greenwich, CT — Brynwood Partners VII L.P. ("Brynwood VII") and Brynwood Partners VIII L.P. ("Brynwood VIII") signed a definitive agreement to acquire a portfolio of brands from The J.M. Smucker Company ("Smucker") for $375 million.  The portfolio includes the exclusive U.S. rights...

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