President Coolidge's Cream Of Tartar Biscuits
"He said his wife could not make a good cream of tartar biscuits for anything. A Vermont biscuit."
Original is 10 servings
Ingredients
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- Garnish
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (60.4 g)
- Calories 198
- Total Fat - 11.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 7.1 g
- Cholesterol - 29.6 mg
- Sodium - 343.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 20.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.9 g
- Sugars - 1.1 g
- Protein - 4.3 g
- Calcium - 33.8 mg
- Iron - 1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
A medium bowl
Step 2
Whisk together the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt.
Step 3
Sprinkle the butter pieces over the dry ingredients and use your fingers to blend it
Step 4
Keep going until you have a shaggy mixture with pea-sized bits and little flakes of butter.
Step 5
Add the milk all at once and stir with a with fork until it’s almost fully combined, then turn the dough out onto a floured surface.
Step 6
Using your hands (never a rolling pin), gently press the dough out into a rough 1-inch-thick rectangle, then fold in half lengthwise
Step 7
Turn it 90 degrees, and gently press it out again. Repeat this process five more times
Step 8
Lightly sprinkling the dough with more flour as needed to keep it from sticking.
Step 9
On the final turn, press the dough out to a 1-inch-thick rectangle and use a pastry cutter or ruler to make the edges as straight as possible.
Step 10
Use a sharp knife to cut the biscuits into 10 equal pieces, depending on what size you want your biscuits to be.
Step 11
Transfer them to the prepared baking sheet, placing them close together but not quite touching, so that they support each other as they rise.
Step 12
Brush the tops with the melted butter, then transfer to the refrigerator to chill while you heat your oven to 450º.
Step 13
When the oven is hot
Step 14
Transfer the biscuits to the oven and cook until golden brown and puffed, 9 to 12 minutes.
Step 15
Let cool slightly
Tips
No special items needed.
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