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Bran Buttermilk Biscuits

Source of Recipe

fooddownunder.com


List of Ingredients

1/4 cup Post Grapenuts Cereal
1/3 cup lowfat buttermilk (5 to 6 tbs)
3/4 cup reduced fat Bisquick
1/8 tsp baking soda
1 pc h salt (sparingly)
1 pc h ground mace or nutmeg
1 1/2 tbl corn oil up to 2tbs
  additional Biscuit for dusting board


Recipe

* 1. In small non-stick sauce pan, warm the cereal until toasty smelling. Remove from heat and let stand 1 minute. Add the buttermilk and set aside until moisture is taken up.
* 2. Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt. Add the oil and mix with a pastry cutter or your fingers until the mixture resembles coarse corn meal. Add cereal mixture, stirring only until combined.
* 3. Turn dough out on lightly floured surface and roll (knead) gently into a log. Cut log into biscuits. Place biscuits on ungreesed baking sheet.
* 4. Bake at 450 F about 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve hot with fruit preserves.

* VARIATIONS:
* SWEET MILK: omit buttermilk and baking soda. Use milk and add 1/4 tsp baking powder to the bisquick.
* * SCONES: knead gently a few times. Roll out to 1/2 inch thick circle. Cut into 8 wedges. Bake 10 minutes.
* * COOKIES: add raisins and/or nuts. Roll out to 1/2 inch thick. Cut with a small (1.5-inch) biscuit cutter. Bake for 12 minutes.
* * CRACKERS: roll out a 1/4 inch thick rectangle. Cut into 18 (approximately) pieces. Bake 10 minutes. The crackers will continue to cook as they cool on the pan.
* * KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN cereal or KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN BRAN BUDS cereal instead of grapenuts.

* Yield: 6 pieces
* NOTES : Here's a versatile biscuit with the nutty flavor of bran. Bake from 9 to 12 minutes to get the desired dryness. Make biscuits or scones; cookies or crackers. Small batch.