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Biscuits For Breakfast

Biscuits For Breakfast — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

• 2.0 cup King Arthur Unbleached All Purpose Flour
• 1.0 tsp Salt
• 1.0 tbsp Sugar
• 2.5 tsp Baking Powder

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Method (preview)

1. 1

   *You can use any kind of milk, from skim right up through whipping cream. The richer the milk, the richer and more tender your biscuit will be.

2. 2

   In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, sugar and baking powder. Cut the butter into pats, and work the butter and shortening into the flour, using a pastry blender, mixer (you can also use a food processor, up to this point), or your fingers. When thoroughly combined, the mixture should resemble uneven, coarse crumbs; don't keep working it till it's perfectly homogeneous. The point is to work the cold fat into the dry ingredients fairly evenly, but so that it still retains its integrity; you don't want the fat to become one with the flour. The uneven, tender texture of biscuits comes from pockets of cold fat in the dough, which in the baking process don't melt till after the dough is set, leaving butter-catching fissures in the baked biscuit.