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‘Mouse’s Best Ever (American) Biscuits
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Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
2 cups all purpose flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup shortening or lightly chilled butter
2/3 cup milk
Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar, cream of tartar and salt well in a medium bowl. At this point you can mix the dry ingerdients all you want so as to be sure to evenly mix.
Using a pastry blender, fork or two knives, cut the shortening or butter into the flour mixture until the mixture resembles course crumbs. Still there is no danger of over-mixing.
Next the gentle part. Make a well in the center of the flour and add the milk, all at once. Then, very gently pull the flour mixture into the milk just as necessary to form a soft ball of dough. The idea is to treat the dough as gently as possible and minimize handling at this point.
As soon as it will all stick together, turn the dough ball onto a well-floured surface and very gently knead it just a couple times so the moisture is distributed and it is a proper ball of dough.
Still very gently, pat or roll the dough to 1/2-inch thickness. Cut with a biscuit cutter (or the top ring from one of those handy jars of jam) and gently transfer to a baking sheet. If the dough is slightly sticky, be sure to press straight down in a single motion with the cutter. You can also flour it between cuts.
Reform the last dough scraps as needed to form the last couple biscuits, but note which ones these are—you will notice when you eat them that they are chewier and less light and flakey just from that little bit of extra handling.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until biscuits are lightly golden brown on the top and bottom. Makes 10-12 biscuits.
Serve warm. To eat, slice in half and top with butter and Bakerina’s jam. In an emergency, you may use other homemade jam.
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Note: Once you learn how simple these are to make and how good they are to eat you may never accompany any meal with store-bought bread again. They are absolutely perfect without jam to accompany soups or stews. Then dolled up with jam or jelly, they’re nearly dessert.
Someone told me that scwiki is for lies and fiction. But unless you make ‘em, you’ll never know if these biscuits are fiction or fact. And a ‘gator once told me, “Fiction comes in many forms; some of them quite tasty.”
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