Buttermilk Biscuits

Butter Milk Biscuits
Always searching for new and better recipes; this is from Martha Stewart January 2004...absolutely wonderful.

2 1/4 cups of flour
2 1/4 tsps of baking powder
1 tsp of sugar
3/4 tsp of fine salt
1/2 tsp of baking soda
6 Tbls. of cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1 cup of buttermilk

Sift together dry ingredients into a medium bowl. Cut butter into mix with pastry cutter,
make a well and add buttermilk. Use a fork to mix, until just combined. Turn out dough onto lightly floured work surface and quickly and with minimal touching form into a circle about 1” thick. Cut into biscuits.
Arrange biscuits on a parchment covered baking sheet.
Bake 450* for about 10 minutes, until golden brown.


Lee Bailey’s Buttermilk Biscuits
From a good soup cookbook, a more rustic drop biscuit.

2 cups of flour
1 tsp of salt
2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of baking soda
6 Tbls. of cold unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups of buttermilk

Sift dry ingredients, cut in butter with pastry cutter, make a well in center of mix.
Pour in the buttermilk and incorporate with a fork until just mixed. Drop by tablespoons
onto an ungreased, parchment lined cookie sheet, leave room between, they spread out.
Bake
450* for 12 minutes