2 c flour sifted
1 T sugar
2 t baking powder
1/3 t sea salt
10 T unsalted butter, chilled and cut into pieces
2/3 c chilled buttermilk
Preheat oven to 375
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add butter and blend with fingertips until mixture resembles coarse meal. I used my pastry blender. Gradually add buttermilk, mix with fork until large, most clumps form. Shape dough into a ball and roll out on a surface well dusted with flour. Cut into 3 inch rounds. Place biscuits one inch apart on a baking sheet lined with parchment. I used a pizza stone -- no parchment. Bake biscuits approximately 20 minutes, until lightly browned.
I love a good biscuit. Never made one before. I'd always been scared off by the rolling, the mixing, the over mixing. But it was time to take a chance. I was invited for soup to a friend's house and I thought --let's try it. I looked at several recipes, and i am prepared to try several , but my first attempt is a buttermilk one, because I love the texture buttermilk gives baked goods, and was hoping it would be more forgiving.
I tried to follow the recipe exactly. I cut in the butter thoroughly. I tried not to overmix once I added the buttermilk. I rolled it out, cut it out, and baked them. That's when trouble started. The biscuits would not rise. They stayed pretty much the same size as when I put them in the oven. They kind of looked like hockeypucks. :( The good news is that they tasted delicious. Exactly the way biscuits are supposed to taste. I am not sure what happened -- maybe the baking powder wasn't fresh, maybe I rolled out the biscuits too thin.
We enjoyed them with the salad and soup for dinner -- Certainly not biscuits that you can split in half, and slather with butter. But delicious taste. The quest continues, I might even try this recipe again with a brand new box of baking powder.
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