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Biscuits, Buttermilk Biscuits with Earl Grey Soaked Raisins

Make Biscuits, Buttermilk Biscuits with Earl Grey Soaked Raisins at home with Raisins, Hot Regular Earl Grey Tea, All Purpose Flour, Brown Sugar, and Baking Powder. Serves 14. Save it, add the ingredients to your shopping list, and cook it tonight.

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup
• 3/4 cup
• 2 3/4 cup
• 1/4 cup
• 1 1/2 tbsp
• 1 tsp
• 12 tbsp
• 2
• 2/3 cup

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 425F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or set out a baking stone; set aside.

2. 2

   Steep tea and pour hot tea over raisins in a heat-proof bowl. Let raisins soak while oven preheats and you mix your dough.

3. 3

   In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

4. 4

   Cut butter into dry ingredients until mixture resembles coarse meal.

5. 5

   Make a well in dry ingredients, and pour in buttermilk mixture.

6. 6

   Use a fork to gently pull sides of dry ingredients down into buttermilk, and keep stirring, gently, until flour is incorporated.

7. 7

   Scoop raisins out of tea, reserving liquid.

8. 8

   Fold raisins into biscuit dough.

9. 9

   Dough will be shaggy, sticky, and may not hold together perfectly.

10. 10

    Turn out onto a floured pastry cloth or counter top and knead, gently, about 5 to 10 times, until dough is no longer sticky and it is holding together.

11. 11

    Roll or pat out into a 1" thickness.

12. 12

    Cut into rounds with a biscuit cutter.

13. 13

    Place on baking stone or baking sheet.

14. 14

    Brush over tops of the biscuits.

15. 15

    Bake 14 to 16 minutes until golden.

16. 16

    Meat; 1/2 Fruit; 0 Non-Fat Milk; 2 Fat; 1/2 Other Carbohydrates.