Rosie'S Buttermilk Biscuits
- 2 cups Self-rising flour
- 2 tablespoons cold bacon fat
- 1 cup cold buttermilk (full fat)
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Place flour into a large mixing bowl. Fluff it gently and very briefly with a whisk.
- Add cold bacon fat and cut it into the flour with a pastry blender until pea-sized crumbs form. If you don't have a pastry blender you can quickly rub the fat into the flour with your fingers.
- Make a well in the center of the mixture and pour in the buttermilk.
- Mix with a fork until the liquid and dry ingredients are just combined and a sticky dough is achieved. If your dough is too stiff, add 1-2 more tbsp. buttermilk.
- Turn the sticky dough out onto a lightly floured surface and then lightly sprinkle the dough with additional flour. Knead 5 or 6 times and pat dough out flat with well floured hands to 1 1/2" thickness.
- Cut dough into rounds using a 3-inch round biscuit cutter or cookie cutter; re-roll scraps and cut more biscuits until all of the dough is used. If dough wants to stick to the cutter, lightly flour it between cuts.
- Place biscuits, just touching, on a lightly greased 13 x 9 baking sheet.
- Bake for 15 -20 minutes. Remove from the oven and brush the biscuit tops with the 2 tbsp melted butter. Serve warm
flour, cold bacon, cold buttermilk, butter
Taken from food52.com/recipes/22853-rosie-s-buttermilk-biscuits (may not work)