Basic Biscuits My Style

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 6 tablespoons cold butter
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 in a large mixing bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together.
• 2 then, using a pastry cutter or a pair of knives, a spoon, or your hands, cut the butter into the flour.
• 3 basically, cut the butter and mix with flour to coat and separate the pieces.
• 4 continue until you get pea sized pieces of butter.
• 5 it is important that the butter be cold for this process and not begin to melt.
• 6 if it starts to get a little mushy, you can slip it into the refrigerator for 15 minutes to firm back up a bit before continuing.
• 7 pour the milk in and mix gently with a spatula.
• 8 do not knead, just gently mix.
• 9 (kneading will produce gluten which will make the biscuit bread like instead of light and flaky.).
• 10 using your hands, form the dough into a ball once the milk has been evenly distributed through the dough.
• 11 you might need to use a kneading action to get it into a manageable shape and to remove some dough from the sides of your container, but try not to knead too much.
• 12 transfer the dough to a piece of parchment paper or clean surface and roll out into a large sheet about 1/4 inch in thickness.
• 13 use a cup or biscuit cutter to cut rounds out of the dough.
• 14 do not twist the cup or cutter (unless you have already cut all the way through).
• 15 twisting will result in uneven or failed rising.
• 16 usually it's a good idea to press the top of the biscuit down a little or else you will get biscuits with rounded tops.
• 17 now, biscuit placement is key to getting good rise out of the biscuits.
• 18 place the biscuit dough circles into two 9" cake rounds or onto a half sheet pan.
• 19 have the biscuits just touching.
• 20 this should give enough air between the biscuits to allow even heating, but not so much space that the biscuits spread out when they rise.
• 21 bake in a 425°f oven until golden (about 15 minutes).