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Preheat the oven to 425°F. In a large bowl, combine flour and butter. Use the pastry cutter to cut the butter into the flour until the pieces of butter are about the size of peas.
Place 3 cups of the flour in a large bowl. Chop ½ cup of the butter into 1/4-inch pieces and add it to the flour along with the leaf lard (or additional 5 tablespoons salted butter if not using leaf lard). Use a pastry cutter to work the fat into the flour until the mixture looks like cornmeal with pieces no larger than a small pea.
Stir together warm water, yeast and 1 teaspoon of the sugar in a small bowl. Let stand five minutes. Stir together flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda and remaining sugar in a large bowl; cut ...
Melt ¼ cup of the salted butter in a 10-inch cast-iron frying pan over low heat. Turn off the heat and set aside. Melt the remaining ¼ cup butter in a microwave-safe bowl and set aside.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse bread crumbs.
The image of Biscuit Bread from a 1917 recipe book. Southern chefs may have had an advantage in creating biscuits. Northern American all-purpose flours, mainly grown in Ohio , Indiana and Illinois , are made from the hard spring wheats that grow in the North's cold-winter climate.
In a recipe, the baker's percentage for water is referred to as the "hydration"; it is indicative of the stickiness of the dough and the "crumb" of the bread. Lower hydration rates (e.g., 50–57%) are typical for bagels and pretzels, and medium hydration levels (58–65%) are typical for breads and rolls. [25]
Shrewsbury biscuits/cookies – Originated and are still made in the historic town of Shrewsbury, England. It is a rich shortbread made with butter, sugar, flour, egg and aroma, often enhanced with currants. The first Shrewsbury biscuits recipe was printed in London in 1658, in a book titled: 'The Compleat Cook'. Sandies – a shortbread cookie ...