Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe

Last Sunday I wake up feeling very hungry! I stay in bed for a couple minutes wondering what I could eat... fruit of course, I will have some coffee as always, how about an egg.... yes! a fried egg with toast and butter.... yummy! So I get up and walk to the kitchen... boil water for my french pressed coffee... go to the refrigerator to get myself an egg... reach in for the butter... and for the.... wait a minute!?! Where's the bread??? Argh!! No more bread!!

Being the person that I am, if I want to eat toast, I need toast! But it's sunday and I'm still in my pyjama and it looks cold outside... nope! I won't be going out to buy bread... at least not right away... and I'm starving!!! and then, staring at the inside of my refrigerator desperately hoping to make bread appear,  I see a carton of buttermilk..... (angels singing) I won't be eating bread this morning but freshly made just out of the oven buttermilk biscuits!!! Oh yeah!!! They take a minute to put together and what, 15 minutes to cook??? Let's do this shall we?

EASY BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

You will need:

- 4 cups of flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 2 Tablespoons of baking powder
- 2/3 cups butter (cut into little cubes and left in the refrigerator until the last minute)
- 1 cup 1/2 plus 2 Tablespoons  buttermilk (left in the refrigerator as well)

Directions:

In a bowl, whisk the flour, salt and baking powder. Add the little cubes of butter. 

Work the butter into the flour mixture using a pastry cutter until the texture of the mixture resembles wet clumpy sand as so:

There has to be small pieces of butter in the mixture and the colder the butter the better!! Woah! Say that 3 times in a row! The reaction of pieces of cold butter warming up in the dough while cooking will make your biscuits rise tall!

Once you have the appropriate texture, add the cold buttermilk to the mixture and stir until everything is moistened. Flour the counter and knead the dough 4-5 times... not more than that. Remember the butter, you do not want to make it melt or be perfectly combined. You need those little pieces of butter everywhere in the dough. Then flatten the dough ball into a flat disc shape (about an inch thick).

Can you see small pieces of butter?? Yum!! then using a knife, cut random forms into the disc. I don't bother using cookie cutters... I love different shapes on a plate. I find it pretty! and as yummy!!

Separate the pieces on a baking sheet. I put parchment paper on the bottom. Pop into the oven and cook for 10-12 minutes or until the top is golden brown. Then transfer to a cooling rack.

MMMMMMMMM!!!! Let's cook an egg... and do it fast before I eat all these biscuits!
A fruit, an egg, a just out of the oven biscuit and a cup of coffee....

Perfect sunday breakfast!! And so much better than that toast I was craving for in the beginning! Voilà!!!