Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Plain Great Biscuits


Makes 14 - 16 biscuits

(Wet ingredients)
255 grams butter
225 ml milk
*Some bread flour for folding the dough

(Dry ingredients)
540 grams flour
3 tsp baking powder
3 tbs granulated sugar
1.5/4 tsp salt
  1. Cut butter into small cubes and put them in the freezer for at least 10 minutes.
  2. Sift all dry ingredients into a bowl and transfer 2/3 of it into the processor.
  3. Add in chilled butter into the processor and pulse just about 7- 10 times.
  4. Add in the remaining dry ingredients and pulse about 10 - 13 times. Important to see more like a flour mixture before becoming like crumbs, so don't over mix!
  5. Transfer it into a bowl and add in milk and mix with a large fork quickly until it becomes a big lump.
  6. Using a rolling pin, shape a rectangular shape and fold the dough in half. Repeat this four times and cut it with a cookie cutter. For the second batch, don't roll it into a ball! Keep folding to make a rectangular shape and fold in half and cut it with a cookie cutter.
  7. Place biscuits next to each other, attached on a baking pan and bake about 13 minutes at 390 - 400 degrees.



Tips:
  1. When pulsing butter and dry (flour etc.), pulse 2/3 of flour and frozen butter about 7 - 10 times. Add in the remaining flour and pulse 10 - 13 times. Should be more flour before soboro.
  2. Lay the biscuit next to each other, attached place some mold next to the last one.
  3. When shaping the second and third dough, don't roll it to make a ball! Keep folding in half to shape it.