Homemade Biscuits
My kids LOOOVE biscuits (who doesn’t?!?!, right) and these biscuits are perfect to serve alongside dinner OR breakfast! As we were starting to cook dinner tonight I was asking if they wanted biscuits or ?? Needless to say, I didn’t even make it to the second option coming out of my mouth before both were cheering for biscuits. These biscuits are a mix of flakey “layers” from the envelope folds, but at the same time still hearty enough to hold up to being topped with sausage gravy if you wanted.
I figured this was the perfect recipe to share for heading into this weekend because a New Year’s morning of biscuits and gravy sounds like a pretty damn good way to start the year off right! Pssst: coming up next is going to be a yummy sausage gravy recipe to complete a delicious breakfast…..or breakfast for dinner, because that’s a favorite in our house too!
Biscuit Recipe:
4 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup cold butter, cubed
3 tablespoons white vinegar
2 cups milk
Preheat oven to 450*
Combine flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a medium-large size mixing bowl
Cut butter into cubes, use a fork or pastry cutter to work butter into the flour
Add vinegar and milk to the flour/butter mixture; continue mixing with a fork until all ingredients are thoroughly combined
Lightly flour counter before turning out dough
{Use your hands to pat the dough into a rectangle about 1” thick; envelope fold dough}
Repeat the patting and envelope fold process {step 5} two to three more times
After the last envelope fold, pat dough evenly to 2” thick, use a biscuit cutter or approximately 3” round cookie cutter to cut dough into biscuits
Scrap dough can be worked together and patted out again to cut additional biscuits
Transfer cut biscuits to a stone baking sheet or into a rimmed baking pan/cookie sheet; space biscuits slightly apart
Bake at 450* for 13-15 minutes, biscuits will start to turn golden when done
Makes approximately 10 biscuits