Mary Mac’s Angel Biscuits

Also called “bride’s biscuits” in certain areas of the South, angel biscuits are made feathery light with not only yeast but lard. At one time I thought the finest angel biscuits on earth were baked by a Greek lady at a restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina, called The Epicurean. Then I tasted the billowy wonders brushed with butter at the legendary Mary Mac’s Tea Room, in Atlanta (now more of a sprawling restaurant than a tearoom) and concluded that there was no further