Baking Powder Biscuits
Baking powder biscuits are a type of quick bread sometimes served with lunch or dinner, especially for an informal or casual meal. Sometimes biscuits are served with gravy. Often biscuits are served with breakfast. Eaters typically apply butter, honey, jam, or jelly to their biscuits. For breakfast, an eater might add a fried egg, fried ham, sausage or cheese. Biscuits come in two forms, cut and dropped. Cut biscuits use a fairly normal dough that is rolled out and cut with a circular cookie cutter. Drop biscuits use a somewhat wetter dough that is dropped onto a cookie sheet with a spoon.
Source and licence
"Baking Powder Biscuits" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Baking_Powder_Biscuits, revision 4658351), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Baking_Powder_Biscuits&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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Ingredients
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- 2 cups (240 ml) / 250 g Flour
- 1 Tbsp (15 ml) / 13.8 g Baking powder
- ⅓ tsp (2 ml) / 2 g Salt
- ⅓ cup (80 ml) / 68 g Lard or shortening
- 1 cup (240 ml) for drop biscuits or / 183–244 g Milk
Method
- Mix the dry ingredients.
- Cut in the fat, preferably as you would for an apple crisp or traditional pie crust.
- Add the milk, mixing only as needed to wet the dough or batter.
- If doing drop biscuits, plop the batter by large spoonfuls onto a greased or parchment-lined cookie sheet. Otherwise, for cut biscuits:
- Give the dough a quick knead.
- Roll the dough out to ½ inch thick, using flour as needed to avoid sticking.
- Cut circles with a 2.5-inch cookie cutter, or carve hexagons (a honeycomb pattern) with a knife.
- Space the biscuits 1 inch apart on the cookie sheet.
- Bake 10–12 minutes in a 450°F oven, stopping when lightly browned on top.
- Serve hot.