Sourdough Buttermilk Biscuits...
Biscuits are so good I had to try another recipe. This recipe uses sourdough but also has buttermilk and is even faster to make!
This recipe takes one big bowl to mix everything together. Don't you just love it when you only have one bowl to wash? In this big bowl dump in 2 cups of flour. Even though this recipe does use sourdough starter to make the biscuits rise, it also uses baking powder and baking soda. Add 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon of salt to the flour and whisk together.
To the bowl of flour pour in 1 cup of sourdough. Make sure the sourdough was left out over night to warm back up, and that you fed the sourdough starter.
After you add the sourdough starter, melt two tablespoons of butter and pour that in along with a 1/2 cup of buttermilk. Mmm, can't you just imagine what the sourdough and buttermilk are going to taste like together? Mix all the ingredients together until it forms a stiff dough.
If you can find a clean surface somewhere in your kitchen, lightly dust it with flour. (Note, this is not a reflection of your kitchen, but mine.)
Dump the dough out of the bowl onto the floured surface and lightly flour the top. It will still be a little sticky, so while kneading it, add a little flour from time to time until the dough becomes smooth.
After the dough has been kneaded for awhile, it wont need you any more...pun intended.
Roll out the dough with a rolling pin, lightly floured. This is a little bit sticky to work with, but don't add too much flour. Just try to work with it. Now, I don't have a biscuit cutter, as I mentioned in the other biscuit recipe, but I thought I would try using a canning lid. Hey, sometimes you just have to be creative.
The cool thing about this recipe is that the biscuits don't have to rise. Pull away all the unused dough and set it aside to roll out again. The more times the dough is re-rolled, the more flaky layers you will get in your biscuits. Rolling the dough over and over again will not make these biscuits tough.
Place the biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet, pre-heat the oven to 450 degrees and bake the biscuits for 8 minutes. I don't prefer my biscuits to be too browned. If you like them browned, bake them for 10 minutes.
And there you have it! A plate full of warm, fluffy biscuits all in less than 30 minutes.
There are lots of ways to eat a biscuit. If you are like me, a big slice of butter is all you need. But if you are looking for something more substantial, give this a try...
Fry up some eggs and make a fried egg sandwich. You can pretend that you went to McDonalds. But this is way better...
If you make this for your husband, he will think loving thoughts about you all day long. Mine did...
