Biscuits, White Flour

Biscuits are easy to make and a staple for breakfast and camping meals. Biscuits are made from simple ingredients we should have on hand in your pantry.

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tbs baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
6 tbs butter

1 tbs vinegar to make buttermilk
6 oz milk

Directions:
Preheat the oven because you want to get the dough cooking as soon as it is made. [The baking powder start to off-gas as soon as it contacts a liquid. If you delay you will lose the lift needed for the biscuits].

Make buttermilk by combining vinegar and milk and let rest 10 minutes before use.

Place flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and thoroughly blend.

Add and cut in butter until the mixture looks like crumbly.

Add in the buttermilk and mix until it just combines, about one minute.

Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and pat or roll to about a ½ inch thickness. Then fold the dough in 1/3rds, 1/3 over the center and the other 1/3 on top the first 1/3 folded. Then long ways fold in 1/2 then fold in half in half again. [This folding will create the layers you’re looking for in a biscuit]

Roll dough out to about 1/2 inch thickness and cut with biscuit cutter or cut into about 2 inch squares, or use a round dough cutter.

Place pieces on an ungreased baking sheet.

(If you want golden brown biscuit tops brush on the tops some melted butter.)

Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden brown.