Buttermilk biscuits
Something to put under your sausage gravy
Servings 12 biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups White Lily self-rising flour
- 1 stick butter frozen
- 3/4 cup buttermilk perhaps a few drops more--ice cold
Instructions
- grate slightly more than half--maybe 5 tablespoons--of the frozen butter into the flour and stir until all butter is coated in flour
- mix in buttermilk until dough is just coming together
- on lightly floured surface, pat dough with floured fingers into a roughly 5"x10" rectangle
- fold dough over onto itself and pat out again. Repeat once, twice at most
- Cut out biscuits. Use 2 1/2" circular cookie cutter and form scraps together into mutant biscuits or just cut into squares with bench scraper
- melt remainder of the stick of butter in a bowl in the microwave
- Bake on cookie sheet at 475°F for 10-12 minutes. Brush tops with melted butter once halfway through baking and again at the end.
- Serve with sausage gravy and hot sauce