Buttermilk-Cornmeal Biscuits
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Buttermilk-Cornmeal Biscuits recipe
Ingredients
| 1 ½ | cups |
all-purpose flour
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| ½ | cup |
cornmeal
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| 2 | teaspoons |
sugar
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| 2 | teaspoons |
baking powder
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| ½ | teaspoon |
baking soda
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| ½ | teaspoon |
salt
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| ¼ | cup |
butter
cut into small pieces and chilled |
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| ¾ | cup |
buttermilk
non fat, plus 2 tablespoons |
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nonstick cooking spray
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| 1 | large |
egg whites
lightly beaten |
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Directions
Combine flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and soda in a large bowl; cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal.
Add buttermilk; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened.
On a lightly floured surface, knead dough 5 or 6 times.
Roll dough to ½ inch thickness; cut with a 2½ inch biscuit cutter.
Place on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray.
Brush tops with egg white.
Bake at 450F for 12 minutes or until golden.
Sever warm biscuits with jam and cream if desired.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 42g (1.5 oz)Amount per Serving
Calories 35433% of calories from fat
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 13g
20%
Saturated Fat 8g
38%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol 32mg
11%
Sodium 500mg
21%
Total Carbohydrate
17g
17%
Dietary Fiber 2g
10%
Sugars g
Protein
15g
Vitamin A 8%
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Vitamin C 1%
Calcium 11%
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Iron 16%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet
How is this calculated?
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I added two pieces of crystalized ginger.a quarter cup of golden raisins,five dried apricots.I cut up the dried fruit in very small pieces and added it after the buttermilk.I also mixed my flour between spelt, wholewheat kamut,white and soy-delicious
about 10 years ago