American-Style Biscuits.
You can cook American-Style Biscuits using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of American-Style Biscuits
- It's 200 grams of ○ Cake flour.
- It's 2 tsp of ○ Baking powder.
- It's 2 tbsp of ○ Powdered sugar.
- Prepare 50 grams of Salted butter.
- It's 100 ml of Whey (can substitute milk).
- Prepare 1 dash of Milk (to finish).
American-Style Biscuits instructions
- Add the ○ dry ingredients to a bowl and use a whisk to mix together. Make sure there are no lumps..
- Cut the butter into 1 cm cubes and cool. You can also use a chilled spoon to reduce their size before mixing them in..
- Mix the butter in using a spatula in a cutting motion. Use your hands at the end to knead into a crumbly texture..
- Make a depression in the center and add the whey (or milk) in 2-3 parts. Let it soak in without kneading. Gather it together in one lump and place in a plastic bag..
- Stretch it out to a 1 cm thinness while still in the bag (it should be 15 x 20 cm large). Using a rolling pin helps things go more quickly. Let sit in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours..
- Preheat the oven to 200℃. Remove the dough from the bag, and fold two or three times. Press down on it to get it to stick together..
- Use a knife or a cookie cutter to make the individual biscuits. Brush milk on top, place on a baking pan lined with parchment paper, and bake at 200 ℃ for 18 minutes..
- They're delicious hot from the oven! If they cool down too much, you can warm them up a bit and enjoy with butter or jam..