Sausage-Cheese Biscuits

Name: Sausage-Cheese Biscuits
Yield: Yield: about 5 dozen.
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ½ pound sharp Cheddar cheese, grated; ½ teaspoon baking soda; 2 tablespoons cultured buttermilk powder (see note); 1 pound homemade Spiced Sausage; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1½ cups sifted flour; ½ teaspoon salt, if desired; 2 tablespoons solid white vegetable shortening

Preparation info

Yield: about
5 dozen
.

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1987

About

This is one of the finest cocktail snacks I have ever sampled. It is insidiously good, like peanuts or popcorn, and consists of well-spiced sausage baked into a roll and cut into rounds. It is a recipe given to me by my sister in Greenwood, Mississippi, one Christmas past.

Ingredients

1½ cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon

Americas
United States
Starter
Christmas

Method

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
Set aside 1 tablespoon flour for kneading the dough.
Combine the remaining flour, baking powder, baking soda, an