Moist and Fluffy Biscuits

Saturday mornings are big breakfast mornings around our house.  During the week it's an array of cold cereal, oatmeal, toast, and frozen pancakes and waffles (I make these myself on the weekends and then freeze them for the week).  But Saturday, oh Saturday, We love to have a big filling breakfast.  The idea of healthy usually goes out the window on Saturday, and that's ok right?  I mean it's only once a week.  HA!  Anyway, this past week I had a hankerin' , a hankerin' for biscuits.  Big, fluffy biscuits.  So, on Saturday we decided that biscuits it would be, for breakfast with cheese ('cause cheese makes everything better), eggs, and thin sliced hot ham.  Yummmm!  These sure beat the heck out of any fast food sandwich you could get and they were easy and fast!  I think we will be making these more often.  Now, a few things about the biscuits.  Biscuits are fickle, they don't like to be messed with too much.  Handle the dough as little as possible!!  Don't knead it!!  Don't stir the heck out of it.  Also, I used cake flour.  I could bore you with a bunch of technical reasons related to gluten and density, etc.  but cake flour works best for fluffy biscuits.  You can use all purpose, I won't be upset, but you probably will not get the lightest biscuits possible.  Also, use COLD butter.  You don't want your butter to break down too much so make sure it stays cold!!!

So here's the biscuit recipe...the rest is up to you!!

Big Fluffy Biscuits

2 cups cake flour ( or all purpose if you must)

2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1/3 cup butter (COLD, cut into small pieces)

3/4 cups milk or buttermilk

Preheat your oven to 500 degrees!  Don't forget this.  These biscuits need to be put into a HOT oven.

Prepare everything ahead of time that you will need.  Get out your biscuit cutter, flour your counter lightly, get out an ungreased baking sheet and melt a little bit of butter, a few tablespoons, and get out a pastry brush.  Now, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.  Place butter chunks in bowl with flour and rub or cut butter into flour until it resemble coarse meal.  Dump in milk or butter milk and stir JUST UNTIL COMBINED!!  Dump wet dough out onto floured surface and pat it out to about 1 inch thick.  Cut with a floured biscuit cutter and place on baking sheet.  Gather scraps and repat them out to cut out more biscuits, you should get 8 or more.  Now brush each with melted butter and place in oven.  Bake for about 10 minutes until lightly browned.  Remove from sheet and brush on more butter if desired.  ENJOY!!