Biscuits
From pointsevenout 8 years ago
- 30 min to make
- Serves 10-12
Quick and easy biscuits. Top it with butter or gravy or jam or jelly or whatever blows your skirt up.
Ingredients
- 3c all-purpose flour shopping list
- 2T baking powder shopping list
- 1t salt shopping list
- 1/2c chilled shortening, cut in small cubes shopping list
- 1/2c chilled unsalted butter, cut in small cubes shopping list
- 1c milk shopping list
- small handful of cornmeal shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- Pulse dry ingredients together in a food processor.
- Pulse shortening into dry ingredients in 1 second bursts, 3 to 5 times
- Pulse butter into dry ingredients in 1 second bursts, 3 to 5 times
- That's the easy way. But one could always blend it all by hand, leaving the fat in nothing larger than pea size particles.
- Pour the contents of the food processor into a mixing bowl.
- Add 1c milk and scrape the dry ingredients into the milk from the edge of the bowl to the center, working around the bowl until the dough comes together in a loose, almost sticky, conglomerate and no dry particles are left in the bottom of the bowl. Might have to add a couple more Tablespoons of milk.
- Scrape the dough out onto a floured work surface. Bring dough together and compress it with floured hands.
- Knead the dough a dozen times.
- Pat and roll the dough out to 3/4". I prefer 1".
- Cut dough with 3" round biscuit cutter. No twisting or turning. Just a straight down and up stamp.
- Place biscuits upside down, touching, on a baking sheet with a thin layer of cornmeal spread on it.
- Rework scraps.
- Brush any flour from surface of biscuit.
- Should make 10 to 12 biscuits depending on the thickness.
- Bake on the center rack for 18 minutes.
- Transfer to a wire cooling rack.
- If you did a good job, using not out of date ingredients, the first round of biscuits cut out should measure 1 1/2 to 1 3/4" tall.
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The Rating
Reviewed by 2 people-
My most successful biscuits ever although I still can use some improvement. I cut the recipe in half and used my food processor. Followed the directions exactly although I did have to add another tablespoon of milk. Mine were done after 18 minutes...more
frankieanne
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I made half of the recipe for breakfast this morning. I don't have a food processor, so whisked up the dry ingredients in a big bowl before cutting in the butter and shortening with a pastry cutter. Weather and humidity can effect the amount of liq...more
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