Buttermilk Biscuits

Name: Buttermilk Biscuits
Yield: Makes About 16
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 300 ml/ ½ pt buttermilk; 1 tbsp milk; 1 egg; 675 g/ 12 oz self-raising flour, plus more for dusting; 60 g/ 2 oz chilled hard baking margarine, diced; 1 tbsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 tsp salt; ½ tsp baking powder; 60 g/ 2 oz unsalted butter, diced, plus more for greasing

Preparation info

Makes About
16

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

About

For the uninitiated, a biscuit in the USA is closest to a savoury scone, while they call our sweet biscuits ‘cookies’. American supermarkets sell really good instant biscuit mixes, though they are not difficult to make from scratch.

Ingredients

675 g/ 12 oz self-raising flour, plus more for dusting
1 tbsp bicarbonate of so

Americas
United States
Vegetarian
Baking
Bread

Method

Preheat the oven to 230°C/450°F/gas 8.

Sift the flour into a bowl with the bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt. Rub the margarine and butter in gently with your fingertips to achieve a crumb consistency. Stir in the buttermilk with a fork to form a soft dough.