Six Biscuits

[Darlene]

Small Batch Perfect Biscuits

Ingredients

1½ cups + 3 Tbls all-purpose flour
5 tsp sugar
¼ tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp cream of tartar
6 Tbls COLD butter
1 egg, lightly beaten
½ cup milk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Combine the dry ingredients and use a pastry cutter to cut the butter in. You're looking for small, pea-sized pieces of butter throughout the dough.

Add in the milk and egg and mix just until the ingredients are combined. The dough will be sticky but don't keep working it.

Turn the dough out onto a generously floured surface. Sprinkle some flour on to the top of dough so it won't stick to your fingers and knead 10-15 times. Sprinkle additional flour if necessary.

Roll or pat the dough out to ¾ - 1 inch thickness and cut with a biscuit cutter or glass.

Place the biscuits on a lightly greased baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.

For extra yumminess, brush the tops of the biscuits with melted butter...

[holly]

I make the simplest biscuit. But if you do something wrong, it won't work, that's the secret. I don't use cold butter, that's what I was taught to do. I beat the sugar with the eggs until they are completely dissolved, then I add the other ingredients.

[Brenda "Catbatty" Adams]

Thanks Darlene, I'm grabbing this one also! Would love to know source for it. (I collect cookbooks, epubs, magazines. I love to put source names or links with my huges Mastercook software recipe collection of almost 30 years!