Ingredients: |
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon yeast
1/4 cup warm water
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar??
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup butter, shortening, or lard
3/4 cup milk or buttermilk
Or replace the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and cream of tartar with 3 1/4 cups of Quick Mix. To vary the amount of dough and make more or less biscuits, per (full) cup of Quick Mix, use:
1 teaspoon yeast
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon warm water
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup butter, shortening, or lard
1/4 cup milk or buttermilk
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Directions: |
Directions:Preheat oven to 450º In a measureing cup add yeast to warm water. I put the yeast right in the measuring cup with the water.
Sugar helps yeast to activate, so put a pinch or so in there. I probably put in about 1/8 teaspoon. (It doesn’t really matter–just add a teeny bit.)
Stir it up a little since this is a very small container then let sit, Your yeast should bubble in a few minutes.
Combine flour and other dry ingredients in a large bowl. Cut in butter, shortening, or lard with a pastry cutter. Add the water/yeast mixture. Go milk your cow then add the milk or buttermilk. (You can skip the milking part if you want.)
Stir to combine. It will seem a little dry–it’s not. Knead lightly, working in all the flour until you have a nice firm but pliable ball of dough. Roll out on a floured surface. Cut biscuits, rolling and re-rolling. Place cut biscuits on a greased cookie sheet and let sit for about 20 minutes. They’ll rise a little, and more when you put them in the oven
Bake at 450-degrees approximately 12-15 minutes (depending on size of biscuits).
I used a pretty generously-sized biscuit cutter here and made 11 big biscuits. Get the butter! |
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