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Southern Biscuits

Courses: Breads
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

2 cups 125g / 4.4ozFlour
4 teaspoons 20mlBaking powder
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlBaking soda
3/4 teaspoon 3.8mlSalt
2 tablespoons 30mlButter
2 tablespoons 30mlShortening
1 cup 237mlButtermilk - chilled

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 450F.

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.

Contributor: Alton Brown

Yield: 1 dozen

Source:
"Wenonah's Pantry", Bryan, TX

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