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Biscuits II Recipe

United States

This recipe for biscuits is adapted from the public domain cookbook A Little Book for A Little Cook.https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Little_Book_for_A_Little_Cook/Recipes

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

Procedure

  1. Preheat the oven to .
  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.

Adapted from Wikibooks Cookbook · Cookbook:Biscuits II, CC BY-SA 3.0.