Hello..

Can one buy Bisquick in the shops in Switzerland?

Cheers

No.

Two can't either. Nor a group.

You'd need to buy from a (mostly online) shop that imports American food. Be warned, they are not cheap. You'll pay a minimum of 3 - 4 times what you would in the States.

You can make a decent substitute
http://www.food.com/recipe/the-maste...bstitute-45055

Last year I saw it being sold upstairs at the English bookstore in Zurich.

Link: http://www.americanmarket.ch/

Enter Bisquick in the search box.

I make mine "home made" each time I make biscuits or dumplings, can't remember the recipe source (it didn't call for the powdered milk) BUT, I think phdoofus's recipe is a bit better as you can adjust the recipe size as I'm not sure I'd use > 9c of "bisquick" in just a month.

Some other recipes I've seen require oil which would definitely go off quickly. Nestle makes a full cream powdered milk you can use if you want. It comes in a can. It should be pretty easy to get here (I'm sure I've seen it). In the US, the only place to get it was in ethnic stores (Mexican,Indian,etc).

Just put it on your wishlist for when you go back home.

Then when you get there, because you've missed it so much, you'll automatically pick up the biggest box of it you can find.

When you realize it weighs 5# and takes up half of your suitcase, you'll quickly come to the conclusion that, you really haven't missed it that much and that, you can make perfectly good biscuits and pancakes using ingredients from the Swiss/German/French stores for much less hassle.

En Güete!

My 10lb bag of baking soda from Costco is still useful. I was thinking of offering it up along with my power transformers if someone will buy my car or my huge frigging Pax warddrobe. Kind of as a 'thank you!'

Thanks Phdoofus, this looks really great, and would be handy. Just a question, though, when I read the recipe, I didn't see any mention of the amount of liquid to add - was I just "looking with my eyes closed" (as my Mum used to say), or is it really not mentioned? Could you give us an idea of how much should be used, please? Thanks a lot!

try the same quantities that Bisquick calls for...

Hi
Our local garage in Wadenswil sells it - its a Shell one. Maybe worth a last ditch effort at your local shell. Not as expensive as the Globus option

Bisquick is usually just the "mix" to use for making pancakes, biscuits, dumplings and things like that - so the amount of liquid (and whatever all else) you need depends upon the recipe for which you intend to use it.

What are you wanting to make? Maybe we can help going at it that way.

Thanks, Peg, I realize that a pancake mixture would have to be a lot thinner than biscuits, but would just like an idea of the relation of liquid to mix for the different things. Would hate to end up with pancakes when I wanted to make biscuits and vice versa! And if I kept on adding the mix to the runny pancakey mixture, I'd end up with a heckuva lot of biscuits!!

It's ok to be kind of approximate. You're not making explosives in your basement laboratory. You're making pancakes. If you've ever made pancakes, just add enough liquid until it 'looks about right' (just don't over mix, pancakes don't like that)

I usually make "drop biscuits" with the bisquick mix (as opposed to "cut" biscuits). I generally just add milk by feel. Drop biscuits are still a bit sticky, so just a bit of milk is needed, enough to mix it all together, that's about it.

For pancakes with bisquick though, maybe this will help?

I usually put some vanilla in my pancakes, especially since hubby doesn't like syrup on his (he says it's too sweet), so this way I can get away with less syrup and they still taste nice.

One vial (I think it's 5ml?) of "butter vanille" works fine.

I soooo miss Cosco!

I happened to see that there is a Gluten Free version of Bisquick at another American store in Geneva.

Link: http://www.afoodave.ch/bisquick-gluten-free.html

It is currently out of stock but if you are looking for Gluten Free you could ask them about availability.

If you`re looking for pancake mix, Dr. Oetker is pretty decent. Got it at Coop in Wabern.