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Preheat oven to 400.
Sift the dry ingredients together a few times; cut and rub the butter into the mixture with the thumb and fingers the same way you would if you were making pie crust, add the milk gradually, mixing until it becomes a spongy mass, then fold and kneed the mixture until it turns into a solid dough.
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Turn dough onto a well floured board, roll lightly until it is a large circle about 1 and a half inches thick. use a knife to cut the dough into squares and bake in 2 circular pie pans or on a large cookie sheet.
Bake for about 8-12 minutes depending on the size of the biscuits and the individual temperature of your oven.
This is a general baking soda biscuit recipe.
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At the stage just before you add the milk, feel free to add flavourful dry ingredients to the mix.
Examples include but are not limited to-
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese, Chilled or frozen (you can freeze shredded cheese and not have it form a large clumpy block if you shred the cheese into a small amount of cornstarch before freezing. The cornstarch keeps it from adhering to itself)
Or- 1/4 cup fresh chopped herbs
Or- about a tablespoon garlic powder
Or- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds, sesame seeds or any other EDIBLE, tasty and flavourful seed.
Just make sure whatever ingredients you add are dried or frozen (except the fresh herbs, they’re ok fresh or dried) so they’ hold up during the kneading process.
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o, I made these biscuits by adding cheddar cheese to the mix as well as a little less than a tablespoon of garlic powder and they were wonderful.
The top of the biscuit was powdery and flaky and the inside of the biscuit was tender and delicious.
The bottom of the biscuit baked to perfection, not burnt or soggy.
So, Be creative with your biscuits. Try new things and revel in their deliciousness.
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Originally Submitted
7/9/2008
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