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Happy National Buttermilk Biscuit Day!

Nothing says breakfast more than the smell of flaky buttery biscuits wafting through the house... well, except for perhaps the salty scent of bacon sizzling on a skillet, depending on one's preferences. But those that embrace salty over sweet unanimously love the classic biscuit to start their day. Whether broken apart in flakes or peeled apart in layers to reveal a fluffy, steaming center, biscuits are a tangy, buttery no-fail food.

They're a safe bet at fast food joints like KFC and Popeyes; they're great thrown in the oven from Pillsbury's ready-made tubes; and they're positively sublime when baked from scratch at home, as indicated by Martha Stewart's recipe, pictured at left. Give some homebaked biscuits a shot yourself -- writes the blogger Slow Like Honey of the final product, "Pillsbury better watch out because if more people start baking their own biscuits with this recipe, they will be out of business."

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Tangy, thick and low in fat, buttermilk's got lots of versatile uses in the kitchen.

A good buttermilk biscuit is like a self-effacing nuclear physicist: its humble exterior belies the brilliance it harbors beneath its surface. Based upon that comparison, the biscuit pictured above could win a Nobel Prize -- or at least top honors for World's Best Breakfast Food. Immortalized by SauceSupreme at Flickr, it was made by the amiable gents at Pine State Biscuits in Portland, Ore. The combination of fried chicken, cheddar and scrambled egg is a timeless classic -- as was, one imagines, the sense of satisfaction that followed its consumption.

[Via Flickr]

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