Jam Filled Buttermilk Biscuits
- 4 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 3/4 cups chilled buttermilk
- 9 tablespoons raspberry, cherry or apricot jam
- Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl to blend.
- Freeze flour mixture 1 hour.
- Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 375F.
- Transfer flour mixture to processor.
- Add butter and cut in using on/off turns until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Return mixture to large bowl.
- Make well in center of mixture.
- Add chilled buttermilk and stir just until blended and moist clumps form.
- Turn dough out onto floured work surface.
- Gather dough together and pat into 1-inch-thick round (do not knead).
- Using 2 3/4-inch-diameter biscuit cutter, cut out biscuits.
- Transfer buttermilk biscuits to large ungreased baking sheet, spacing 1 inches apart.
- Gather scraps and re-pat to 1-inch thickness, then cut out additional biscuits, for a total of 9.
- Insert thumb into center of 1 biscuit, making deep indentation that almost reaches bottom, then push toward sides of biscuit to form 1-inch-diameter hole.
- Repeat with remaining biscuits.
- Spoon 1 tablespoon jam into each hole.
- Bake jam-filled biscuits until golden brown, about 25 minutes.
- Serve biscuits warm.
flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, chilled buttermilk, raspberry
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/jam-filled-buttermilk-biscuits-103240 (may not work)