I've been asked for a long time for my "favorite biscuit recipe" and to do a tutorial. I know it isn't anything you haven't seen before, but here's my version!
2 cup all purpose flour ($.75 - I use organic all purpose)
1 Tbsp sugar ($.03 - I use organic from BJ's)
1 Tbsp baking powder ($.19 - I use Rumford[non-gmo/aluminum free])
1 tsp salt
Wet ingredients:
1 stick of butter, frozen, grated by hand or food processor - 8 Tbsp ($.88 - I used conventional from BJ's)
1 cup of cold buttermilk - ($.75 - I used Marburger from Walmart)
Total cost of ingredients is $2.60
Preheat oven to 450.
Mix all the dry ingredients together with a whisk.
Grate the frozen stick of butter using a hand grater or food processor.
Mix with dry ingredients until butter is all covered in flour mixture and broken into bits.
Add the cup of buttermilk and mix until no obvious wet patches of buttermilk remain.
Pour onto clean, flour-dusted surface. Mold into a mound, cut into fours, stack on top of each other. Press on the mound and clean up edges again, cut into fours, stack again. See video for reference. Do this until you have a cohesive dough (2-3 more times - mounding, cutting, stacking, pressing)
Once you have a cohesive dough, roll dough out to about an inch or so thick. Use a biscuit cutter and press up and down - do not twist - and cut your biscuits. Place on a parchment lined baking pan with edges touching each other. Bake for 13-20 minutes or so. Top with butter if desired.
Alternatively, you can add a cup of cheese, a healthy crumble of bacon bits, and spices like chipotle powder, to make a fun smokey biscuit. You can do maple sugar instead, maybe double or triple the amount to make homemade biscuits for "McGriddle" type sandwiches. I've also done them with garlic and cheddar cheese to make knock-off Red Lobster biscuits as well. It's a very versatile recipe. Try to work fast to keep your ingredients cold. Unlike cakes and cookies where coming to room temp is recommended, biscuits are the opposite - the colder the better! You can also put your dry ingredients in the fridge for an hour or so to chill them and the bowl as well.
Enjoy!
