Homemade Buttered Biscuits

Hey all!  Today, I am bringing you a recipe that is very popular in my home.  They are soft, flaky, buttery, and great with my Sausage Gravy (I usually make meatless gravy, but my Husband is a tried and true Carnivore... Can't win 'em all).  You can put Jam on them, as well as fresh fruit for breakfast, or make a sandwich out of them, by kneading into bread dough instead of biscuit dough.  I'll explain that soon.  Hope you enjoy!

YOU WILL NEED:

2 1/4 cups of All-Purpose flour (I use Self Rising, and omit the baking powder, but I will list the ratio below)

4 tsp Baking Powder

3/4 tsp Salt (or 6/8 tsp)

1 tsp Sugar

1/3 cup Butter (SUPER COLD!  I RECOMMEND GETTING THIS OUT OF THE FRIDGE RIGHT WHEN YOU NEED IT)

1 cup milk (AGAIN, SUPER COLD!) (You can use soy, almond, coconut, goats, whatever floats your boat.  I will update this later letting you know how it tastes with different milks)
Cheddar Cheese (Optional, did not use with this recipe)
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1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

2) Combine dry ingredients [flour, salt, sugar] (seen below)

3) Take Butter and cut into small pieces.  Since I consider myself to be quite a Kitchen Witch sometimes, I drop the cut pieces of butter in starting N, S, E, W.   You, of course, do not have to do it, but I find it quite fun :)) ...  Also, in order to continue, the butter should be the size of small peas.

4)  After you have incorporated the butter,  It's time to add in the Milk!  Use a frosting spatula, or a wooden spoon to fold in the flour mixture with the milk.  Make sure you barely combine the mixture, and not to overwork it.

5) TIME TO KNEAD!  This can get quite messy, so make sure you have a lot of extra flour.  If you do not know how to knead, you will surely learn after reading this & looking at the pictures.   It's pretty foolproof.

Kneading instructions:

A)Your mixture will be quite goopy and gross, and you probably will want to skip this, but trust us!  This is the best way to do it, as well as the most important step.  I do not like doing it either but hey, it turns into much fun after awhile.  Feel free to do it in your mixing bowl, for it will be less clean up as well.  Pat your hands with the flour and sprinkle tons of flour on the dough and around the edges of it.

B) Next you will want to pick it up. The dough will be sticky, but remember to keep adding flour where it needs it.  Start to pull it and stretch until it's about to break off, and then set it back in the bowl.  

C) Here are the necessary ways to properly knead. Look at your dough as a square.  Even though it might be a weird ovally circle, it has (somewhere) four corners.  A Left, and a right.  Grab the dough on the left and right sides (1st & 2nd corners) and pull over the 3rd & 4th corners, like an omelet.  Once you have done that, repeat.  Except, you are wanting to take the left side and fold over to the right.  Do that about 5 times, or until satisfaction is reached.  ( I think I will make a video on how to knead on our Youtube page)

Finished product of kneaded dough.  READY FOR THE OVEN!!!

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6)  Butter and flour your pan so it won't stick.  

7)  It is time to roll them into biscuits.  As I said above, if you want to make this into bread, you can butter a loaf pan and go ahead baking it.  Bake for 20 minutes, or until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean.

8)  The above pictures show how to roll them.  Flour if necessary.  No explanation required.

9) Set them on the pan, and let them bake for 10-12 minutes.  Broil for 1 to get a crispy layer on top.  Make sure you always keep an eye out while broiling.  Always keep the oven door cracked slightly.

Voila!  The biscuits are ready.  Make sure you get one before your whole family (or roomates, animals, etc) devours them.  I would advise doubling the recipe if that happens.  

Blessed Be!

-Leah