Biscuits

By klzrebiec

Ingredients

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• plus more for dusting
• 2 tbsp. baking powder
• 1 scant tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp. salt
• 5 tbsp. cold unsalted butter
• 1 cup whole milk

Details

Servings 6

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Sift flour, baking powder, sugar and salt into a large mixing bowl. Transfer to a food processor. Cut butter into pats and add to flour; then pulse 5 or 6 times until the mixture resembles rough crumbs. ( Alternately cut butter into flour in the mixing bowl using pastry cutter.) Return dough to bowl, add milk and stir with a fork until it forms a rough ball. Turn the dough out onto a well floured surface and pat it down into a rough rectangle, about an inch thick. Fold it over and gently pat it down again. Repeat. Cover the dough loosely with a kitchen towel and allow it to rest for 30 minutes. Gently pat out the dough some more, so that the rectangle is roughly 10 inches by 6 inches. Cut dough into biscuits using a floured glass or biscuit cutter. Do not twist biscuit cutter when cutting; this crimps the edges of the biscuit and impedes its rise.Place biscuits on a cookie sheet and bake until golden brown, about 10 to 15 minutes.