Biscuits for Sunday Breakfast on the Hill

Name: Biscuits for Sunday Breakfast on the Hill
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 1 cup sifted bleached all-purpose flour; ¾ cup sifted cake flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; ¼ teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon aniseeds; Large pinch of saffron threads, powdered; ¼ cup granulated sugar; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature but still waxy and cut into tablespoons; 3 tablespoons yogurt whey; 3 tablespoons heavy cream

Preparation info

FFR—
1 dozen
biscuits

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The New Making of a Cook

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1997

About

To make yogurt cheese, drip yogurt overnight. Keep some of the abundant whey or collect some in a larger pot of plain nonfat yogurt, where the whey squeezes out of the curd after a portion has been used. Its bright yellow color is normal, just spoon it out.

Ingredients

1 cup sifted bleached all-purpose flour
¾ cup sifted cake flour
2

Europe
France
Breakfast
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 450°F. Mix the flours, baking powder, baking soda, aniseeds, saffron, 2 tablespoons of the sugar, and the salt. Using the fingertips of both hands, mash the butter into the flour to obtain a coarse meal. Add the whey and heavy cream mixed together, and work lightly