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Mimi's Buttermilk Biscuits

Source of Recipe


From "Consuming Passions" by Michael Lee West



List of Ingredients



• 2 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 1 tsp baking powder
  
• ½ tsp baking soda
  
• 1 tsp salt
  
• ½ cup cold, unsalted butter
  
• 1 cup buttermilk
  






Instructions



1. Preheat the oven to 450° F. Butter (or spray with Pam) two 8x8x2-inch square glass pans.
   
   
2. Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
   Cut in the cold butter, either with a pastry blender or two knives. When the flour and butter mixture is crumbly, pour in the buttermilk. Turn the dough onto a floured board and pat down to ½-inch thickness. A light touch is recommended; biscuits don't like lots of handling.
   
   
3. Using a biscuit cutter (or even the top of a child's jelly glass), cut out biscuits. Heat the glass pans, then add the biscuits (they can touch each other; they like togetherness). Bake 12 to 15 minutes, or until brown.
   
   Yield: 12 biscuits