Southern Biscuits (My Granny’s recipe)

This makes about 14 biscuits

1.0 Biscuits

Ingredients:

• 250 grams  _________________ Flour (all purpose, ~2 Cups)
• 1-2 TBSP ____________________ Baking Powder (BP, she never measured)
• ¹⁄₄ tsp _________________ Baking Soda (BS)
• ¹⁄₄ tsp _________________ salt
• ¹⁄₄ Cup _________________ butter (cold, cut into small cubes. and yes, only half a stick)
• 1 Cup ____________________ buttermilk (or milk + 1 tsp vinegar)
• 1 TBSP ____________________ sugar

Instructions:

• Pre-heat the oven to 425°
• Measure the flour
• Put the flour, BS, BP, sugar, and salt in a food processor, and add the cold butter.
• Pulse till it is sandy.  (You can do this by hand with a pastry cutter, but even my grandma had a food processor as soon as she could get one)
• Put the buttermilk in, and pulse till it forms a loose dough.
• Turn out onto plastic wrap, and form into a ball.
• Wrap it up and chill for a few minutes, if you have time.  This helps keep it flakey.
• On a floured surface, quickly and gently roll out the dough, to about half an inch thickness.
• Using a biscuit cutter (aka a round cookie cutter), about 2 inches in diameter, cut out the biscuits.
• Push straight down, don’t turn the cutter.
• Place biscuits about an inch apart, on a sheet parchment lined sheet pan.
• Re-roll out the scrap dough, and cut.
• Brush the tops of the biscuits with melted butter.
• Bake biscuits for 15-20 minutes 

Biscuits

Biscuits