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January 23, 2005
Buttermilk Biscuits
Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp sugar (optional)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
5 tbl cold lard or butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
3/4 cup plus 2 tbl buttermilk
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 500 degrees. In a bowl, sift the flour with the baking powder, sugar, baking soda and salt. Work the lard in until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Add the buttermilk and stir until the dough forms a ball.
2. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and fold it over onto itself 10 times. Pat the dough out on an 8-inch square. Using a 2 ?-inch round cutter, stamp out 12 biscuits; reroll the scraps and stamp out more biscuits.
3. Arrange the biscuits on a baking sheet and bake in the center of the oven for 8 minutes, or until golden.
Makes one dozen.
Posted by Kelli Little at January 23, 2005 08:56 PM