Biscuit
All girls from the South should make excellent biscuits. Like most wonderful recipes, this has few ingredients. It’s the technique, y’all.

Ingredients:
2 cups White Lily flour
1 T baking powder
1 t. salt
1/4 cup butter, unsalted
2/3 to 3/4 cup milk (I use whole milk)

Method:
Preheat oven to 475 degrees for about 10 minutes, at least.

Using the blade attachment for your Cuisinart, put the dry ingredients in the bowl of the machine. Pulse a few times to mix. Cut the butter into equal cubes. Add the butter to the flour mixture and pulse about 5-10 times for 1 second for each pulse (or until the flour resembles coarse crumbs). Add the lower amount of milk and pulse. Add more milk if the dough seems to need it in order to come together. When the mixture comes together after pulsing a few times, turn it out onto a floured surface and knead maybe a few times before patting it (lightly) into a circle. Cut the dough by pushing the biscuit cutter straight down into the dough. (Don’t twist the cutter.) Place on a lightly greased sheet or into a cast iron skillet (ala my grandmothers, Ma Beaut and Mema). Put them straight into the oven. Bake them for about 8-10 minutes or until the bottoms are done and the tops are a wee mite golden brown.

Makes from 6 big biscuits to around a dozen small ones. It just depends on the size of your cutter and the size of the circle of patted dough.
Hope that you try it and enjoy it, too.

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