Name: Peg's Biscuits
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 18 min
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 tablespoon baking powder; 6 tablespoons cold butter (cut into cubes); ¾ cup cold buttermilk (plus a little extra for proper consistency); 1 pinch baking soda

Peg's Biscuits

Just a Pinch Recipe Club, Peg, United States.

This recipe was recommended by a friend, Peg, on the Just a Pinch Recipe Club site and she has this recipe perfected as to how to make biscuits! Very easy, and excellent biscuits! Link to the Shortcut is listed in the Notes section.

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Prep Time 15

Cook Time 18

Passive Time 15

Servings biscuits

Equipment

Pastry Cutter
Baking Sheet
Parchment Paper
Oven

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
6 tablespoons cold butter, cut into cubes
¾ cup cold buttermilk, plus a little extra for proper consistency
1 pinch baking soda

Instructions

First thing, make sure you have room in your freezer for whatever mixing bowl you are going to use.
To the mixing bowl, add the flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder. Whisk together.
Add the butter to the flour mixture and cut in with a pastry cutter to blend, leaving pieces of the butter about the size of peas. Now place the mixing bowl in the freezer for 15 minutes.
While the flour butter mixture is in the freezer, measure out your buttermilk and add a large pinch of baking soda and stir that in.
Now get the baking sheet ready by adding a sheet of parchment.
When 15 minutes have passed, remove the mixing bowl from the freezer, add the buttermilk, stir until just mixed, add additional buttermilk 1 tablespoon at a time until a sticky ball forms, do not over mix.
Flour your hands and counter, place dough on counter, gently push dough down to sort of flatten, then fold dough in half, do this 6 to 8 times at most, while being very gentle with the dough. The dough will be rough looking, perfect for biscuits.
Still using your hands, gently flatten dough between 1 and 1½ inches thick. Use a biscuit cutter or a drinking glass, about 2½ inches in diameter, and push straight down to cut biscuits. Do not twist or turn the cutter or you will seal the edge and they will not rise. Shape scrap dough into a ball, flatten, and cut more biscuits, goal is 9 biscuits.
Place biscuits on the prepared baking sheet starting in the center. You want 3 rows with 3 biscuits in each row, sides gently touching. Brush tops with milk and place on top of the stove while heating the oven. Preheat your oven to 220°C (425° F).
When heated, bake for 11 to 18 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and brush with melted butter.
I enjoyed these biscuits with sausage gravy on them.