I can cook, bake, saute, stew, braise, barbecue, roast, fry just about anything/everything, but I'm still on my lifelong quest of making good biscuits.
So, in view of that, we had some of my latest attempt for breakfast this morning. The biscuits were mediocre at best but were okay with butter and honey or molasses, which proves we can eat failures, too.
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Biscuits Recipe:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
3 cups AP Flour
2 tbs. double-acting baking powder
9 tbs. cooking oil
3 large egg
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup milk
Combine all ingredients until just mixed. Do not over-mix.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Dust a work surface with flour and pat the dough into a disk. place the dough disk onto the work surface, and dust the top of the dough. Roll to 1/2 inch thick. Dip a glass into the flour, or use a biscuit cutter to cut the dough into 2 inch rounds. Stack the rounds to make a double layer and place on the parchment paper. Bake for twenty minutes, or golden brown. Remove and place onto a cooling rack. Serve warm with softened butter.
If this doesn't work for you, purchase Pillsbury Grandes.
Ok, here's a second recipe, this one for buttermilk biscuits. It's also very good, light and fluffy.
Preheat oven to 425' F.
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 and 1/2 tsp. sugar
1/3 cup lard, or shortening, chilled and cut into bits
2 tbs. butter, melted
1 cup buttermilk
Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Whisk until all ingredients are evenly distributed. Cut in the lard or shortening to make pea-gravel sized nuggets. Fold in the buttermilk until all is moistened. let sit for 5 mintues or so.
Flour the working surface, apt the dough into a disk, flour the top of the disk, and roll to half-inch thickness. Cut into 2 inch rounds, palce on parchment paper lined cookie sheets, and bake until golden brown (about 15 to 25 minutes). Dip the biscuit tops into the melted butter and serve.
Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
