May 12, 2010

Savory Breakfast Biscuits

biscuits, breakfast/brunch, cheese

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Prep time: 20 minutes
baking time 10 to 12 minutes
Servings: Makes 8 biscuits

Nothing beat Grandma’s freshly baked biscuits for breakfast.

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
1/2 cup finely chopped green onions (4 to 5 medium)
2/3 cup milk

Directions

1

Preheat oven to 450°F. Combine flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in medium bowl.
2

Cut cream cheese and shortening into flour mixture with pastry blender or two knives just until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in chopped green onions.
3

Make well in center of flour mixture. Add milk; stir until mixture forms soft dough that clings together and forms a ball.
4

Turn out dough ball onto well-floured work surface. Knead the dough gently 10 to 12 times.
5

Gently roll or pat dough to 1/2-inch thickness. Cut out dough with lightly floured 3-inch round biscuit cutter.
6

Place dough rounds about 2 inches apart on large ungreased baking sheet. Bake until tops and bottoms are golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Serve warm with sausage links and fresh fruit, if desired.

Grandma's Secret Trick

To make delicate baking powder biscuits, Grandma cut the fat into the flour mixture just until the mixture looked crumbly. She warned that excess handling of the dough or too much flour causes biscuits to become tough; that's why she suggested that we cut as many biscuits as possible from the first rolling.