Buttermilk Biscuits

Buttermilk Biscuits

from Ellen's kitchen, thanks to the WSJ

Ingredients:

• 8 cups all purpose flour
• 4 tbs baking powder
• 4 tsp Kosher salt
• 2 tsp sugar
• 4 sticks butter, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
• 3 1/2 cups buttermilk

Preheat:

• oven to 425.  Combine flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in bowl.

Working:

• quickly to avoid melting butter, rub butter with fingers, or use pastry cutter, and combine flour mixture and butter, until have pea-size butter pieces and streaks of butter.  Chill flour/butter mixture for at least 15 minutes (I refrigerated for 1.5 hours and worked fine).

Grease:

• biscuit cutter with butter, then dust with flour.  Remove flour mixture from fridge, make a well in center, add buttermilk and stir with spoon until just combined.

Turn:

• dough out onto flour dusted surface.  Use floured hands until dough just comes together.  Pat down to 1 1/2-2 inches in height, and cut biscuits without twisting cutter.  Place biscuits on baking sheets lined with parchment.

Bake:

• until just golden on top, 18-20 minutes.  

Great reheated in toaster! :)