Sunday Biscuits!

History:

My Northern mom used to make biscuits for us Saturday mornings with our cartoons. [Dear Rachael, I am trying to be correct in my grammar etc]. So I have always had a soft spot when you talk about a good biscuit with honey. I bough buttermilk when I was home to make biscuits for my mom to take to work [she took everything else], and so here are biscuits.

Recipe: [Inspiration came from TK, tried to be different from clark]

2 sticks butter

270 grams cake flour

270 grams ap flour

salt

tbs baking powder

tsp baking soda

1.5 cups buttermilk

1 egg

Preheat that oven to 425. Mix all the dry and the egg together. Chop up the butter [make it into little cubes]. Work butter into coarse crumbs with the dry goods. Add the buttermilk. Mix like 3 times [Seriously 3 times. Yes I am ocd, but it is important not to over work biscuits. Doing so makes them hard. Actually this comes from wanting chunks of butter in the dough. The chilled butter has a harder time melting in the oven so they add structure to the biscuit prior to melting. And yes some recipes will call for chilling the dough prior to baking to ensure this step has occurred.] Lie the dough out of a flat surface use a dough pin to spread out. Go until about 3/4" thick or so. Use a glass [I used a pint glass] to make the biscuits; quick downward motion with a slight twist. You should hear it fart or so. Keep going until you have the remains, refold together and do again. Bake. I think I made 12 biscuits with this. One to the left of the triangle on top you can see the left overs. Not quite as pretty. Bake for 15-18 minutes, I just put them in until I smelled them.

Enjoy.