biscuit queen

let me paint the picture for you.

the wrapping paper is still all over the floor. clint eastwood is on the tv. i am now martha stewart.

just go with me on that. now that i live in the south, getting my nails done and eating biscuits is my whole personality. there is a new budget line item for chicken biscuits from the many southern fast food chains available to me. there’s one thing i think those are missing though, and it makes me a little homesick — some vermont maple syrup.

this christmas i decided to try making biscuits at home, partially to learn a new skill, and partially to use some of my syrup from last sugaring season.

those of you who know me know that i actually kinda stink in the kitchen, but making biscuits didn’t look too hard after watching a video or two. i, of course, still mixed up a step or two. at the end though, they still resembled biscuits. booyah!

i could just redirect you to the recipe i used (obviously the first one google had), but let’s keep going with the martha bit. first step — egg nog. check! next step, ingredients.

• 2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 tablespoon baking powder

• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter (very cold)

• ¾ cup whole milk

i stuck the butter in the freezer and mixed all the dry ingredients into my way too small antique mixing bowl. after the butter was hard i graded down the whole stick and cut it into the mixture. next, the milk! i gave up on a spoon and just combined the ingredients with my hands.

after the dough resembled… well, dough, i folded it over a few times and pressed it out into about an inch thick layer. i used a bulb cookie cutter to cut out my biscuits. the recipe said to place them pretty close to one another on the pan so i did, no idea why that matters.

so that’s the story of how i became martha stewart and why i will be opening bojangles’ greatest rivalry restaurant soon. you should probably read a real recipe before making these… just don’t forget to add maple syrup.