Shelby Kennemore, Jaden Schudel, Layla Epperson, Jesus Garza, Rylee Johnson, and Manny Ramirez from third hour Foodies stand with their homemade biscuits.
The third hour foodies at Mexico …
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The third hour foodies at Mexico High School learned how to make from-scratch biscuits late last month. They used an updated technique of grating frozen butter into the flower mixture for the biscuits.
Biscuits
Makes one dozen
Ingredients
Directions
For best results, chill butter in freezer for 10-20 minutes before beginning. It is ideal that the butter is very cold for light, flaky, buttery biscuits. Preheat oven to 425 degrees and line a cookie sheet with nonstick parchment paper and set aside. Combine flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in a large bowl and mix well. Set aside.
Remove butter from freezer and use a box grater to shred butter in to small pieces and then add to the flower mixture and stir. Combine the grated butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add milk and stir with a wooden spoon or spatula until combined. Don’t overwork the dough.
Transfer biscuit dough to a well-floured surface and use your hands to gently work the dough together. If the dough is too sticky, add flour until it is manageable.
Once the dough is cohesive, fold in half over itself and use hands to gently flatten layers together. Rotate dough 90 degrees and fold in half again, repeating this step five to six times, but taking care to not overwork the dough. Use your hands [do not use a rolling pin] to flatten the dough to 1-inch thick and lightly dust a 2 3/4-inch round biscuit cutter with flour.
Making close cuts, press biscuit cutter straight down into the dough and drop the biscuit onto your prepared baking sheet. Repeat until you have as many biscuits possible and place less than 1/2-inch apart on baking sheet.
Once you have as many biscuits as possible out of the dough, gently rework the dough to get out another biscuit or two until you have at least one dozen biscuits. Bake at 425 for 12 minutes or until tops are beginning to just turn lightly golden brown. If desired, brush with melted salted butter immediately after removing from oven. Serve warm and enjoy.
nav-oc Naviga Writer 2020-02-26T20:43:54Z false yes NEWS The Mexico Ledger
