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.
newfoundland
about 10 years ago
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