{"id":352,"date":"2011-05-10T05:39:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2011-05-10T05:39:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:39:35","slug":"easy-delicious-homemade-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Easy &#038; Delicious Homemade Biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we&#8217;re heading into the season of &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to turn on my oven to make my entire house overheat&#8221; season, I thought today I&#8217;d share the recipe I use for biscuits, which I have taken from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Cook-Everything-Simple-Recipes\/dp\/0028610105\">How to Cook Everythin<\/a>g <\/em>cookbook by Mark Bittman. \u00a0They&#8217;re really easy (so easy, I&#8217;ve memorized the directions) to make and super delicious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prep time:<\/strong> 15-ish minutes<br \/>\n<strong>Cook time:<\/strong> 10 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>Makes:<\/strong> 10 or so biscuits<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">2 cups flour<br \/>\n3 teaspoons baking powder<br \/>\n1 teaspoon baking soda<br \/>\n1 teaspoon salt<br \/>\n2-5 tablespoons COLD butter (I use the whole 5), cut up into smaller bits<br \/>\n1 cup plain yogurt (you can also use buttermilk, but they come out better with yogurt)<br \/>\n*** <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Turn oven on to 400&#8230;or 425. \u00a0I have found that it doesn&#8217;t totally matter &#8212; somewhere in that temperature range is good.<\/p>\n<p>2. In a food processor, drop in flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. \u00a0Toss in chopped up butter. \u00a0Blend in the food processor until the mixture resembles coarse sand.<\/p>\n<p>3. Put the flour mixture into a bowl, toss in the yogurt and mix until dough resembles a loose ball shape.<\/p>\n<p>4. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface, form into a ball and knead NO MORE than 9 times, until the dough feels like it&#8217;s come together. \u00a0(It&#8217;s important not to work the dough too much &#8212; you get fluffier results.)<\/p>\n<p>5. Pat down the dough with your hands until it&#8217;s about 3\/4-1&#8243; thick. \u00a0Cut biscuit shapes and place on a cookie sheet and place in the oven to bake for 8-10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>*** So this is the basic recipe, which I think is delicious and needs nothing done to it. \u00a0You can, however, add stuff to the dough&#8230;herbs such as thyme, chopped up rosemary, etc. \u00a0Maybe even lemon zest or something, if you wanted that sort of flair. \u00a0To do this, you&#8217;d place those herbs in the food processor and process with the flour, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we&#8217;re heading into the season of &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to turn on my oven to make my entire house overheat&#8221; season, I thought today I&#8217;d share the recipe I use for biscuits, which I have taken from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,65,66,145,291,305,398],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}