Farmhouse Buttermilk Biscuits

Total Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 3/4 cup real butter (margarine will work, too, but the taste and texture will be different)
• 1 1/4 cups buttermilk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 450.
• 2 in a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cream of tartar, and sugar.
• 3 cut butter into pieces, then cut into flour mixture. real butter is very hard, and i found that it was much easier to use my fingers to squeeze the butter into the flour.
• 4 when the mixture is well combined and crumbly, make a well in the center and pour in buttermilk.
• 5 using a fork, stir, starting at the outside of the bowl and blending inward.
• 6 turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead a few times, just until the dough is completely combined and holds together well.
• 7 with a rolling pin, roll dough out to about 1/2 inch thick. cut with a biscuit cutter or round cookie cutter.
• 8 grease a cookie sheet with crisco and place the biscuits 1-2 inches apart on the sheet and bake at 450 degrees for 10 - 12 minutes.