Mile High Buttery Biscuits

Dee #9's Note:

My grandmother used to make this recipe every Saturday with home baked beans. She would use tenderfake lard. I have changed the lard to butter or Margarine, hence the name buttery biscuit.

• Total Time: 27 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 6-8

Yield: 15.0 biscuits

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 tablespoons baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 3/4 cup butter (I use margarine) or 3/4 cup margarine (I use margarine)
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
2. With a knife or pastry cutter cut in, flour, baking powder, cream of tartar,.
3. salt, sugar and margarine. Cut in until it becomes course and crumbly.
4. Whip together milk and egg with a fork.
5. Mix with the flour mixture until it forms a soft dough.Add flour if the dough is too sticky.
6. Important: DO NOT OVER MIX. This will made your biscuit hard if you over mix.
7. Roll out dough with a rolling pin to about 11/2 to 2 inch thickness.
8. I use an empty small can of peas opened at both ends (to let the air though) to cut out the biscuits.
9. Place biscuits on a cookie sheet.
10. Place cookie sheet in your preheated oven on the very top rack.
11. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes.
12. Remove from oven and let stand for 5 minutes.

Reviews

[Chef #1030163]

Great recipe. I use it for biscuits and gravy. I "knead" mine via my stand mixer. Then I pat it into a 9 X 9 pan or 11 X 7, depending on how thick you want the biscuits. This is quick, easy and eliminates the need for rolling, cutting, etc. Bake and then cut in 9 - 12 squares. Serve hot, split open and pour sausage gravy over the biscuits. For the gravy: If you don't want to take the time to make gravy from scratch, you can buy a package mix at the grocery store called "Williams". It comes as a plain gravy or with meat added. This is a recipe the men like!

[Superqt11586]

Ok so I made them and it was soo much easier than I was expecting, they even taste good (this was my first bread-ish venture) they are a lot like the biscuits from cracker barrel, but a little less buttery. My only qualm is that I can't figure out how to get 15 biscuits that are 1 1/2 inch thick, mine are all much smaller as a result and I still only got 12 out of the batch. Good recipe though.

[Chef #318517]

I make biscuits often and did not like these as they were terribly crumbly. Even Bisquick makes better ones.