← All recipes

Basic Biscuits

Basic Biscuits — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

• 3.25 cup Cake Flour
• 1.0 tsp Salt
• 1.0 tbsp Sugar
• 4.0 tsp Baking Powder

+ 4 more ingredients — sign up free to see them all.

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 400~.In a food processor or a large bowl, mix 3 cups of the flour with the salt,sugar and baking powder.Cut the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture is textured like cornmeal. Separately mix the egg with the milk,and stir all but 2 tbs.of this liquid into the dry mixture.Mix just enough to make a uniformly moistened dough. Dust a clean work surface with 1/2 the remaing flour,and turn the dough out onto the floured surface. Sprinkle the top with the rest of the flour,and with floured hands,gently

2. 2

   push the dough into a circle about 1/2" thick. Cut with a 2" or 3" biscuit cutter,and place the cut buscuits close together on a greased corn meal coated cookie sheet.You will