One of my cooking goals in life, yes I have cooking goals, is to make excellent biscuits. I found that the easiest way to acquire good recipes is to eat other people’s cooking and if you like it, ask for the recipe.  People never say no. I attained this recipe from a friend’s grandmother and have since tinkered with it. I like this recipe because it is fast and of course tasty.

Ingredients

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• 2 cups white flour
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2/3 cup buttermilk or milk
• 5 tbs plain yogurt if you don’t have buttermilk

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 450.
• Mix all the dry ingredients together with a whisk.
• Grate the cold butter straight from the fridge with a cheese grater.
• Toss the butter in the flour with your fingers.
• Chop the butter up with a pastry blender until the butter is pea size.
• Add the milk or buttermilk and mix with a wooden spoon.
• Dump the mixture onto a floured surface and squish it together with your hands.

• Roll the dough out on a wooden floured surface. Or a counter, until is about 1/2″ thick, be generous with the flour.
• Fold the dough into quarters and roll out again. Folding the dough creates the fluffy, crusty layers that make good biscuits. Fold in half and roll again, repeat a total of 4 times.
• Cut biscuits out with a tin can or biscuit cutter and place on the cookie sheet.

• Gather up the remaining dough and repeat.
• Bake 8-12 minutes until golden brown on top, NOT brown like toast.
• Eat with lots of butter and homemade jam.