PAX Cooking #2: Homemade Biscuits
PAX Cooking #2: Homemade Biscuits
Recipe here.
Original thread and explanation of why I'm doing this here.
These have always been a huge hit in our house. It's what I make on a weekend when I'm feeling up to cooking early for the family. They're just perfect.
Make sure you cut a nice clean circle with even sides or they get wonky and try to go all fun house mirror on you. They really, really wanna bake into weird shapes.
If you want to cut your bulk biscuit labor dramatically and still get great results try this two ingredient recipe. I was skeptical at first but after trying it I became a believer. Two ingredients, no forking butter. Very fast bake time. I don't even bother with rolling it out. I dust a silicone baking mat, throw the dough on it and fold the mat over to shape and flatten for cutting.
Biscuits, two ingredients
1 3/4 cups (218 grams) self-Rising flour.
1 cup heavy cream. More flour for dusting.
Butter, melted. Optional
I have a love hate relationship with self rising flour. I already keep like 6 different flours in the house (more if you count stuff like semolina) and every time I find myself cooking with self rising, I gain a pound. The cafe I work at makes a beer bread with self rising flour that's fabulous (for the basically zero work it takes) and I'm afraid if it's too easy to make in my own house then I'll make it every day. Then again, we're talking about biscuits so it's not like I've got good standing on healthy food here to begin with.
I'll try that recipe.
Can you explain to me what is so great about self rising flour? It's not common here, but as far as I can tell, it's just white flour with baking powder and salt.
It really doesn't seem necessary.
I understand the struggle. I did not want yet another flour to store. Especially one with a built in timer like self rising. I compromised. Walmart has a 2 pound bag of self rising. I got a container just big enough for that.