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Grandma’s Baking Soda Biscuits with Gravy

Source of Recipe

Mouldy Bus


List of Ingredients

Grandma’s Baking Soda Biscuits with Gravy


2 Cups all-purpose flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
3/4 Teaspoon salt
1/2 Teaspoon baking soda
5 Tablespoons vegetable shortening (cold)
1 Cup buttermilk

Gravy – Peppery Sausage Gravy

1 Stick butter
3/4 Pound sausage
1/2 Teaspoon black ground pepper (or, to taste)
1 Cup flour (or less for thinner gravy)
1/2 Teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 Quart milk


Recipe


Preheat oven to 425F.

In a big bowl, sift flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Cut the shortening into the flour and mixture with a blender, or fork, until coarse crumbs form. Add the buttermilk, and toss with a fork, until the dough holds together. Turn the dough out on a floured surface and form into a disk.

Knead more or less until smooth. Pat dough to 3/4-inches. Use a biscuit cutter or glass dipped in flour, to cut out biscuits. Place the biscuits with regards to 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Gather the trimmings and repeat forming and cutting. Bake when it comes to 13 to 15 minutes, until golden brown.
Makes 12 biscuits.

Gravy

Fry sausage into little pieces. Melt butter in a discerned skillet. Add black pepper, stir. Add flour by tablespoons until thick. Whisk in milk. Whisk until smooth and hot. Add sausage, stir. Put sausage gravy on open-face biscuits.