Buttermilk Everything Biscuits

12 Biscuits

Ingredients:

• 3 cups all-purpose flour (plus a bit more for dusting the rolling surface)

• 3 Tbsp white sugar

• 2 Tbsp baking powder

• ½ tsp baking soda (this helps the browning, but could easily be left out)

• 1 tsp salt (less to taste)

• 9 Tbsp cold unsalted butter

• 1 ½ cups cold buttermilk

• 6-9 Tbsp of “Everything But The Bagel Seasoning” (I use Trader Joe’s mix!)

• Dusting of coarse cornmeal for the baking sheet

1)     Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

2)     Line a sheet pan with a piece of parchment paper and lightly dust with coarse cornmeal

3)     Whisk together the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder and soda),

4)     With a box grater, grate 9 Tbsp cold butter directly onto the dry mix.

5)     Cut in the butter with your fingers (or a pastry cutter) until only small pieces remain. 

6)     Make a well in the dry and pour in the cold buttermilk.  Gather the dough together with your hands until all is moistened and forms a loose ball.

7)     On a lightly floured surface, lightly roll the dough into a 12-inch square (roughly 1/2” thick).

8)     Cut the dough into three 4” by 12” pieces and stack them on top of each other creating one 4” by 12” piece (Ill. 1 and 2).

9)     Turn the new rectangle 90 degrees and lightly roll the dough again into a 12-inch square. Cut the dough again into three 4” by 12” pieces.

10)  On the center piece, sprinkle 2-3 Tbsp of the “Everything But The Bagel Seasoning” and lightly press into the dough. 

11)  Place the right piece of the dough on the center piece and do the same with another 2-3 Tbsp of the seasoning mix.  Finally, top with the left piece and sprinkle the last 2-3 Tbsp of the seasoning mix on top and lightly press in place.

12)  Cut the dough right down the middle creating two 12” inch long pieces.  Then cut the two pieces into six equal sections creating 12 biscuits (Ill. 3).

13)  Place the biscuits one inch apart on the prepared baking sheet and bake for twenty minutes until tops are golden (Ill. 4).

14)  Cool on the sheet for five minutes and then remove to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Illustrations drawn by Mike McQuinn - Thank you!