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Biscuits II

Cookbook | Recipes | Ingredients | Equipment | Techniques | Cookbook Disambiguation Pages | Recipes This recipe for biscuits is adapted from the public domain cookbook A Little Book for A Little Cook.

Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Breakfast, Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, biscuit, breakfast, easy, recipes using all-purpose flour, recipes using baking powder, recipes using butter, recipes using cow milk, recipes without servings, southern u.s.

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ABiscuits_II)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ABiscuits%20II&oldid=4535493

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 1 cup (140 g / 4.9 oz) all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon cold butter
  • ½ cup (125 ml / 4.2 oz) milk

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 200 °C (392 °F).
  2. Sift flour, salt and baking powder twice in a bowl.
  3. Cut butter in with a knife until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
  4. Add milk to the mixture and mix just until you get a soft dough—don't overmix.
  5. Place dough on a floured board. Knead the dough gently until smooth. Roll out to ½ inch (1.3 cm) thick.
  6. Cut out biscuits with a small cutter and place biscuits onto a greased pan.
  7. If you have scraps of dough, knead into a ball, re-roll, and cut out more biscuits.
  8. Bake for 15 minutes until nicely browned. Transfer the biscuits to a wire rack and leave it to cool.