Cream Cheese Biscuits

These cream cheese biscuits are super soft and a little bit cake-like. They're wonderful fresh from the oven and spread with melty butter. 

These biscuits are pretty special because they include cream cheese, they are extra soft, and can actually be made in advance and reheated. 

Sourdough Sandwich Biscuits

These sourdough sandwich biscuits are crunchy on the outside and super soft and tender on the inside. You can whip them up in just 30 minutes, including baking time.

These biscuits are made with butter, flour, baking powder, and salt, but instead of milk or buttermilk, you add 100 percent hydration (equal parts water and flour by weight) sourdough starter. It's a great way to use your discard when you are feeding your starter.

Peach Shortcakes with Candied Pecans

When there are fresh and juicy peaches available, you must make these Peach Cornmeal Shortcakes with Candied Pecans. 

These peach shortcakes with candied pecans begin with tender cornmeal biscuits. These biscuits are soft with a slight crunch from the medium grind cornmeal.

Singing Hinnies {Griddle Scones from Northern England}

Singing Hinnies are a traditional griddle cake from Northumberland in northern England. They are typically made with flour, butter, lard, salt, baking powder, milk, and dried currants.

How did Singing Hinnies get their name? 

Hinnie is supposed to be a term of endearment (like "honey") in the dialect of the region, and "singing" is supposed to represent the sound they make as they are cooking on the griddle.

Baking Powder Biscuits | Tuesdays with Dorie

Baking Powder Biscuits! This is a quick post for a quick recipe.

I got home from work and was determined to make this week's Tuesdays with Dorie selection from Baking with Julia, a wonderful baking book edited by Dorie Greenspan from Julia Child's PBS show of the same name. 

I cut the recipe in half, and used half butter and half shortening in place of all shortening. Within 30 minutes, I had seven wonderful little biscuits. I promptly ate three. One with butter, one with cheese, and one with butter and jam. I loved them.

Baking Powder Biscuits

Makes 7 biscuits.

Ingredients

1 C all purpose flour, plus more for dusting

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp shortening

1 1/2 tsp unsalted butter

1/2 C milk

Melted butter for brushing the biscuits before baking

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F with a rack in the middle. 
2. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
3. Whisk the dry ingredients together in a medium bowl.
4. Drop in the butter and shortening and coat them with the flour. 
5. Using your fingers, pick up the pieces of butter/shortening with your fingers, break the pieces apart, and drop them back in the flour. Continue to rub the flour and shortening/butter together until most of the shortening and flour are mixed, but there are still small visible pieces. 
6. Stir in the milk with a fork. The dough will be "messy." 
7. Sprinkle flour onto the counter and scrape the dough out of the bowl. Knead the dough ten times. 
8. Flatten the dough to about 3/8 inches thick and cut with a 2 inch round biscuit cutter. Gather the scraps together and flatten again to cut more biscuits. You should end up with 7 biscuits.
9. Brush the tops with melted butter and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until golden.