Recipe 34

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Recipe name and category: Buttermilk Biscuits

No. of servings: 6-12

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Recipe ingredients and directions:

2 cups flour

4 tsp baking powder

¼ tsp baking soda

¾ tsp salt

2 tbs butter

2 tbs shortening

1 cup chilled buttermilk

In a large mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients. Using your fingertips rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. 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 the dough onto a floured surface and gently knead about 5-6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they TOUCH.

Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top…approximately 15-20 minutes.

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Recipe anecdote: My family likes really thick biscuits so I just squeeze the dough into a thicker round and cut out about 5-6 biscuits from that. These biscuits are great on a wintry night with butter and honey. I have also fixed them for brunch.