Here's a traditional one:
Buttermilk Biscuits:
2 cups AP flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon bakng soda
5 tablespoons chilled solid vegetable shortening.
1 cup buttermilk or sour milk. (1cup milk w 1 teas. vinegar let stand 5 minutes)
Preheat oven to 425. Sift dry ingredients.
Break shortening into small pieces and put in the flour mix.
With your fingers, mix shortening into the flour mix unti it resembles a coarse meal. It's fine if there are a few lumps of shortening.
Add milk and mix with a fork until a dough forms.
Knead 4-6 times and bring it together in a ball.
Divide into 12 pieces.
Shape biscuits by hand.
Lay in an ungreased pan just touching.
Bake at 425 for 12 to 15 minutes.
Yes, you could roll out the dough and cut them. But, you don't need to. I haven't done that in well over 20 years.
LAZY COOKS BISCUITS: Makes 8
I use this recipe a lot. (It's really a simple scone recipe without the sugar and spice). Makes a light biscuit.
2 cups flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup milk
1/4 cup oil
1 egg
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Do it...it matters!
Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
Whisk wet ingredients together in a small bowl.
Add wet ingredients to flour mixture and combine quickly with a large spoon.
Knead only enough to bring together. (4-6 times)
Pull off a wad of dough and shape by hand.
Lay biscuits in the pan just touching.
Bake 12 to 15 minutes.
You can double the recipe.Anyone have a good biscuit recipe?
its called http://www.google.com ....you can copy and paste if you want. or you can get pilsberry.......thts what i do.Anyone have a good biscuit recipe?
Better Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe courtesy Tyler Florence
Show: Food 911
Episode: Better Biscuits-Sarasota FL/Lady Marmalade-Cathedr
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup vegetable shortening, chilled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
3/4 cup buttermilk
In a mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients together with a fork. Cut in the shortening using a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the center and add buttermilk. Quickly fold dry ingredients into buttermilk with your hands until a sticky dough forms.
Turn dough out onto floured surface. Gently fold the dough over itself 3 or 4 times to create layers. Roll dough out to 3/4-inch thick. Cut with a 3-inch biscuit cutter. Transfer dough rounds to a sheet pan. Gather scraps and repeat. Make a dimple in the center to help the top rise evenly. Brush with butter. Bake for 15 minutes in a preheated 400 degree oven until golden brown.
google any recipe and it will give you the ingredients, amounts, cooking time etc.
however, the most important things to remember are:
1. sift all your dry ingredients together TWICE before adding anything else
2. Cut the lard or shortening in THOROUGHLY
3. Keep the liquid COLD until you add it
4. Don't overmix after you add the liquid
5. handle the dough as little as possible while forming the biscuits
6. If rolling and cutting, push straight down on the cutter without twisting.
Yeap.
Ingredients: Packet of Digestives.
Method: Open packet and serve.
Kentucky FRIED CHICKEN..BISCUITS
1 1/2 cups flour 1 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 Tablespoon sugar
1 Tablespoon baking powder 2/3 cup milk 1/3 cup vegetable shortening
Preheat oven to 425潞F. Sift together flour, salt, sugar and baking powder
into mixing bowl. Make a well in the flour mix and add the milk.
Add shortening and begin kneading with hands (to cut in) the vegetable
shortening and flour in the milk until thoroughly mixed. Add milk, if needed to form, and mix. Turn onto floured board, and knead gently 6 to 8 times.
Pat dough to 1/2-inch thickness. Cut into biscuits. Place on baking sheet
and brown in oven 10-13 minutes. Makes about 9 biscuits.
The Pilsbury Doughboy has a pretty good one :-)
American or English biscuits?
American, always go with Buttermilk! Don't have mine with me, but I got it from the Internet.
http://www.joyofbaking.com/cookies.html
