Biscuits II

This recipe for biscuits is adapted from the public domain cookbook A Little Book for A Little Cook.

30 min

Ingredients

• 1 cup (140 g / 4.9 oz) all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 tablespoon cold butter
• ½ cup (125 ml / 4.2 oz) milk

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 200 C.
2. Sift flour, salt and baking powder twice in a bowl.
3. Cut butter in with a knife until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
4. Add milk to the mixture and mix just until you get a soft dough—don't overmix.
5. Place dough on a floured board. Knead the dough gently until smooth. Roll out to ½ inch (1.3 cm) thick.
6. Cut out biscuits with a small cutter and place biscuits onto a greased pan.
7. If you have scraps of dough, knead into a ball, re-roll, and cut out more biscuits.
8. Bake for 15 minutes until nicely browned. Transfer the biscuits to a wire rack and leave it to cool.

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Adapted from “Biscuits II” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.