Bacon Fat Biscuits
- 1 cup Cake Flour
- 1 cup All-purpose Flour
- 1/2 teaspoons Salt
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoons Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
- 5 Tablespoons Bacon Fat
- 2/3 cups Buttermilk, Plus An Additional 1/4 Cup, Divided
- 1 Tablespoon Melted Butter
- To save your bacon grease: After cooking a pound of bacon in a skillet, pour the rendered fat through a fine mesh strainer into a container with a tight lid (just pour the next round on the top of the previous) and keep it in the fridge until you are ready to use it.
- Preheat oven to 475 F.
- In the bowl of a food processor, combine both types of flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda and sugar. Give a quick pulse until combined. Add the bacon fat and process until the flour and bacon fat are well combined and look like coarse crumbs. Add 2/3 cup milk and pulse until just barely combined. Add additional milk, a bit at a time until all of the dough has been dampened and pulls away from the sides of the food processor. Don't over process or your biscuits will be tough.
- Remove dough from food processor and place on a floured surface. Form the dough into a long rectangle and cut it into squares with a sharp knife. This will give you square biscuits without any waste. Since over worked dough becomes tough, "scraps" left over from cutting out round biscuits can't really be re-rolled and used, they should be discarded. Forming the dough into a long rectangle and cutting with a sharp knife will allow you to use all the dough as biscuits without any waste.
- Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper, then place the biscuits on the sheet. Brush with melted butter.
- Bake at 475 F for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
flour, allpurpose, salt, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, bacon fat, buttermilk, butter
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/breads/bacon-fat-biscuits/ (may not work)