Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits

For those not used to Buttermilk...it can look and smell bad straight out of the carton. It's not...

      

Ingredients:

4 cups Flour

2 2/3 tbsps Baking Powder (or 8 tsps)

½ tsp Baking Soda

1½ tsps Salt

4 tbsps Butter

4 tbsps Shortening (u can use only butter if you must)

2 cups Low Fat Buttermilk, chilled (u can use half & half if u want, but I don't)

Directions         (preheat oven to 450⁰)

1.   In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, & salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixure is crumbly. (the faster the better, you don’t want the fats to melt)

2.   Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.

3.   Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times.

4.   Press into a 1-inch thick round.  Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter (or just use a glass) Be sure to push straight down through the dough. (I do a bit less thick than 1")

5.   Place biscuits on a baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working as little as possible and continue cutting.

6.   Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top.  Approx 10-15 minutes.

**Makes about 16 biscuits depending on the size you cut**