Easy Biscuits

The thought of warm biscuits with butter just makes me feel just so happy. Or smothered in sausage gravy. Here is an easy recipe that I make for biscuits.Make sure you fold over the dough over a few times to get that flakiness to them.

Easy Biscuits


Ingredients
2 c     all-purpose flour
4 tsp     baking powder
1/4 tsp     baking soda
3/4 tsp     salt
2 Tbsp     butter, unsalted
2 Tbsp     butter flavored shortening
1 c     buttermilk, chilled

Directions

Preheat oven to 450*
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 onto 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.This single recipe makes about 6 biscuits if they are cut 1“ thick. Its ok if you use about a 12 cup of flour for dusting. Just make sure you do not over knead this dough. The secret is the cold butter and cold buttermilk.

**Tips: If you don't have buttermilk handy just use 1 cup of whole milk and 2 T of white vinegar. Mix together and let sit for 5 mins till it gets thick. Instant buttermilk! I hate buying the quart of buttermilk because I don't end up using all of it and it goes bad.So I have been making it this way.
The shortening I use Butter Flavored Crisco. I use it for all my shortening recipes. Just please do not substitute butter flavored shortening for real butter. If a recipe calls for real butter than use real butter!