Saturday, October 30, 2010

biskats

hi lovebuddies, rainy day here at the farm-like-place;
coffee gets cold before i finish it,
oatmeal never stops being good,
rain boots come in handy for cleaning out pools (pool party 2010! + flannel),
today is the animal auction and tomorrow is the goats' breeding party!
and i am bloated with frustration and excitement, love and boredom. how funny.
for now, here are some baskats! for your breakfasttime pleasures.

Grandma Hagan’s Biscuits

2 cups white flour*
3 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
¾ cup or more milk OR buttermilk
¼ cup oil
(add 1/8 tsp baking soda if using buttermilk)

Mix dry ingredients. (If adding additional dry ingredients such as herbs or spices**, add now to dry ingredients.) Mix together liquid ingredients, stir to form emulsion, add all at once and stir only enough to wet dry ingredients. Roll to ~1 inch thickness and cut with biscuit cutter.***

Bake at 450 F until lightly browned.

elz' notes:
*or any mixture of cornmeal, wheat flour, and white flour you like (i often do half white half something else.)
**for savory, i like nutritional yeast and sage/basil/ROSEMARY/garlic/pepper. or for sweet biscuits molasses or brown sugar make good additions.
***or heap into cute little lumpy piles on a greased pan.

4 comments:

  1. oatmeal stopped being good for me.
    sigh.

    also, omg, every time i try to "cut" out some dough to shape into a loaf and let proof, it is so awkward. can you get a video of you doing it? it will be very educational. i can't imagine this being a process in which the dough in the bowl and the dough in your hand loses most of its air. (i know it's gonna lose SOME, ja ja)

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  2. i can't imagine this being a process in which the dough in the bowl and the dough in your hand DOESN'T lose most of its air.***

    ah, double negatives

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  3. can i find your frustration cute?
    i will consider makin a vid...hm are you talking about refrigerated dough? cause when i've done it it gets pretty...cuttable. and cold. and kind of lends itself to being cut. there's definitely a small art to shaping the block into a ball; i'll check what zoe and jeff say tomorrow.

    no oatmeal! whaddya eat? french toast jeden tag?

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  4. ja it's refrigerated.
    not that cuttable. i also knead it a bit more than i "should" because i like to and i actually can't think of one freakin reason why air-kneading for 5 minutes would be bad.
    also, i probably just want to watch you move/use your hands.
    but yeah i would be very intrigued to see what your dough looks like, mine is so puffy even after bein in the fridge it just doesnt like being cut at all.

    um i am mostly eating eggs jeden morgen

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