Buttermilk Biscuits

Have at last found a milk producer from whom i can get real milk again.  However, they don’t do butter, so skim off the cream from the jugs i purchase and shake it for butter.  Shaking separates the butter from the buttermilk.  Perfect for buttermilk biscuits.

BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Sunrise Mills Flour (or other all purpose)
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• ¾ tsp salt
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 5 tablespoons chilled butter
• 1 cup buttermilk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425˚F.  In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.  Using a pastry blender or I just use my fingers, cut the butter into the flour mixture until coarse crumbs form.

Add the buttermilk, tossing with a fork until a dough forms.

Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface.  Gather into a disk.  Knead lightly a few times just until smooth.

Pat the dough to ¾ inch thick.  Using a biscuit cutter or a glass dipped in flour, cut out biscuits.  Place the biscuits 2 inches apart on a pan or cast iron skillet.  Gather dough trimmings and pat to ¾ inch and cut out more biscuits.

Bake the biscuits until golden 12-15 minutes.  Serve hot.

NOTE:  to produce flaky biscuits, take care not to over handle the dough.

Using Sunrise Flour Mill older variety Red turkey flour.  

Best light and flaky biscuits i’ve ever made.  Enjoying the home churned (shaken) butter and Rafter 7S Sandhill Cowboy’s Jelly from The Whistle Stop in Bassett, Nebraska.