Touch Of Grace Biscuits

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• nonstick cooking spray or bacon grease, for pan
• 2 cups cake flour or 2 cups lilly flour (260 gms)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder (or use 2 cups southern self rising flour and eliminate the baking powder)
• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup sugar (50 gms)
• 4 tablespoons shortening (48 gms)
• 2/3 cup heavy cream (155 gms)
• 1 cup buttermilk (more or less, 242 gms)
• 1 cup bleached all purpose flour, for shaping
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted (28 gms)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 425 degrees f and grease a 9 inch cake pan.
• 2 whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar in a medium mixing bowl to combine.
• 3 rub with fingers or cut with a pasty cutter shortening into the flour mixture until there are no lumps larger than a pea stir in the cream and buttermilk and let stand for 2-3 minutes.
• 4 the mixture should be very wet and look like cottage cheese.
• 5 pour the cup of all purpose flour into a large plate or pie tin, flour your hands.
• 6 with a greased 2 inch cookie scoup or a large spoon scoup a lump of batter into the flour and sprinkle more flour over the top.
• 7 pick up the lump and roughly shape it into a ball.
• 8 shake off the excess flour, the dough will not hold it shape.
• 9 as you shape each biscuit, place it in the pan.
• 10 push the biscuits tightly against each other so they will rise up and not spread out.
• 11 continue shaping biscuits in this manner until dough is used up.
• 12 bake just above the center of the oven until lightly browned, 15 to 20 minutes.
• 13 remove from oven and brush with melted butter.
• 14 cool for 2 minutes in the pan then dump out and cut.
• 15 serve immediately.