One steak does not a dinner make
Nor chicken breast a meal
Fruit and greens can spice things up
But these biscuits are ideal
Bad poetry aside, no dinner is complete without a side dish or two. And rather than spend a Thursday post on sides, I'm adding a post on Friday. No promises that they'll appear every week, but when they do, there will be Something Extra for the blog and for your table.
These biscuits appeared on my childhood dinner table all the time. I loved when my mom made them, and my sister and I would take turns cutting out the dough with the squiggly biscuit cutter. They're easy to make, require only staple pantry ingredients, and are tasty little bites with any entrée.
If you've never kneaded dough before, this video teaches the "fold, push, turn" method. Don't worry, though. This recipe only requires you to knead a dozen turns, not 8 minutes!
Happy cooking!
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Baking Powder Biscuits
Ingredients
⅓ cup shortening (stick Crisco)
1 ¾ cup flour
2 ½ tsp baking powder
¾ tsp salt
¾ cup milk, approx.
Directions
1. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees.
2. Mix all dry ingredients. Then, cut in the shortening with a fork or pastry cutter.
3. Mix in most of the milk. If the dough is still very sticky, stir in the rest of the milk. The exact amount will depend on the humidity that day.
4. Flour your counter space and hands. Gather the dough into a ball, place on the floured counter and sprinkle with flour.
5. Knead the dough ball 12-15 times.
6. Once the dough is kneaded, pat or roll the dough out until it is about ½ inch thick.
7. Using biscuit cutters or the rim of a small cup, cut out the biscuits and place on a baking sheet. My mom usually used her 2-inch diameter biscuit cutter, but you can cut whatever size (and shape!) you want.
8. Bake at 450 degrees for 8-10 minutes (for 2-inch biscuits).
9. Serve.
After cutting in the shortening, the mix should look crumbly.
The dough will look like this after adding the right amount of milk.
Form the dough from the picture above into a ball for kneading.
After the dough is kneaded, it will look a lot smoother.
Flatten out the dough and cut it out. For fun, we made our biscuits square.
Out of the oven, ready for serving.
Perfect with a little butter and jam. Happy cooking!
Sarah, you're a genius. it has never crossed my mind to just slice the dough into squares like that. Then you don't waste anything! I'm always searching for something round around my kitchen to cut out the biscuits with. :) I will forever remember this. (Or I could forget it tomorrow and always be left with extra biscuit dough, who knows?) :)
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