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CleverNickName said:

I would like to present: my recipe for buttermilk biscuits. It's more about the technique than the ingredients.

CleverBiscuits

Ingredients:
4 cups of all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 Tablespoon granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick of unsalted butter, frozen solid
2 cups cold buttermilk

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees F / 220 degrees C.

Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt together into a large bowl. Using a box cheese grater, grate the stick of frozen butter directly into the flour mixture. (Tip: it's easier to grip if you coat the stick of butter with the flour from the bowl first.) Work the butter into the flour with your fingers, flattening it out and rubbing it all together until it's the consistency of I dunno, rolled oats.

Add the buttermilk all at once and mix it with your hands for a few seconds until it's moistened but not quite fully mixed. (Don't worry, you finish mixing it on the countertop.) So: turn it out onto the countertop and pat it out into a rectangle. Fold it in half, press it back out into a rectangle, fold it in half, press it back out into a rectangle...you will need to do this about 3 times, maaaaaaybe 4, just until the dough comes together and you've built up a good number of layers. Don't overdo it or your biscuits will be tough. Then pat it out into one last rectangle about an inch thick, and cut into squares.

Place each square on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, spaced about an inch or two apart. Bake for about 15 minutes or until golden brown.

Tip: I use a bench scraper to mix, fold, and cut the dough.

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ScottDeWar_jr said:

I know it was posted a while ago, but this sounds like something is in series rather then parallel.

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Aeson said:

Hey. I'm glad to see you. When you're away for awhile I think you're back in the hospital. I hope everything is ok.


I know what serial and parallel are, but can you explain how they're used in this instance? When you say series I picture Christmas lights on a string. One bulb goes out then rest after goes out.

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Aeson said:

Or there's

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Just sayin'....

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CleverNickName said:

They're a good all-purpose biscuit...slightly sweet but mostly savory, good with jam and cheese, good with gravy and eggs.

I almost never have buttermilk in the fridge though, so I use a trick my grandma taught me: put 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar in a measuring cup, and fill it with milk to the 2-cup mark. Use it in place of the buttermilk.

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CleverNickName said:

They're a good all-purpose biscuit...slightly sweet but mostly savory, good with jam and cheese, good with gravy and eggs.

I almost never have buttermilk in the fridge though, so I use a trick my grandma taught me: put 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar in a measuring cup, and fill it with milk to the 2-cup mark. Use it in place of the buttermilk.

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