Basic Biscuits

* Exported from MasterCook *

Basic Biscuits

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 12 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Breakfast

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
3 1/4 cups Cake flour
1 teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Sugar
4 teaspoons Baking powder
4 tablespoons butter or margarine
or vegetable shortening
1 Egg -- lightly beaten
1 cup Milk
2 tablespoons Milk
Spray shortening and corn
Meal for coating pan

Preheat oven to 400~.In a food processor or a large bowl, mix 3 cups of the
flour with the salt,sugar and baking powder.Cut the butter into the dry
ingredients until the mixture is textured like cornmeal. Separately mix the
egg with the milk,and stir all but 2 tbs.of this liquid into the dry
mixture.Mix just enough to make a uniformly moistened dough. Dust a clean
work surface with 1/2 the remaing flour,and turn the dough out onto the
floured surface. Sprinkle the top with the rest of the flour,and with floured
hands,gently
push the dough into a circle about 1/2" thick. Cut with a 2" or
3" biscuit cutter,and place the cut buscuits close together on a greased
corn meal coated cookie sheet.You will
get about 12 biscuits. Brush the tops of the buscuits with the reserved milk
egg mixture. Bake in the preheated oven until puffed and brown,about 15
minutes. Cool for a few minutes before serving. Yields about a dozen
buscuits.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -