Southern Biscuits
Source of Recipe
from Burke's Bistro
List of Ingredients
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons shortening
1 cup buttermilk, chilledRecipe
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until
mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats
to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir
just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.
Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough
over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out
biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the
dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap
dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from
the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey,
that's life.)
Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes. Makes
12.
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