Bonnies Breakfast Biscuits Recipes

BONNIE'S BREAKFAST BISCUITS

Steps:

• 1. Following this recipe to the letter will assure good results. Don't substitute ingredients. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees. Read the recipe through and assemble all ingredients before beginning. Add the dry ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl. Mix well.
• 2. Measure the cold unsalted butter and cut it into small pieces. Add them to the flour and with your fingers and cut through the flour until it resembles coarse ground cornmeal.
• 3. Mixing is crucial. If you overdo it, the biscuits will be tough. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in all of the buttermilk. Using a wooden spoon, carefully scrape the spoon down the sides and under the flour mixture and roll to the middle. Go all around the bowl and just a couple of gentle passes through the middle should remove all dry flour. The dough will be sticky. Use as little flour as possible to form the dough.
• 4. Now form the dough into a round ball, dipping your hands in flour to keep them from being sticky ,and shake off the excess flour. When you have formed a ball, turn it out onto a floured cutting board. Pat the dough to ½ inch thick and cut with a two inch biscuit cutter. This recipe makes about 12 biscuits.
• 5. Don't do any extra shaping or over handle the dough (this is very important!) Place the biscuits in a greased 12 inch cast iron skillet.
• 6. Bake the biscuits in the pre-heated oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until they are a nice golden brown.
• 7. This may sound odd, but I serve my hot biscuits from my soup tureen that has a lid to keep them warm. They stay warm a long time in that container, and it looks cool!

BREAKFAST BISCUITS

Steps:

• For the biscuits: Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
• Whisk together the flour, powdered milk, baking powder, sugar, cream of tartar, salt and cayenne pepper in a medium bowl. Using a pastry cutter, cut the butter bits and shortening into the dry mixture until blended thoroughly. Mix in the cheese, then fold in the buttermilk until the dough comes together.
• On a lightly floured surface, turn out the dough and press into a circle 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick. Cut out circles with a biscuit cutter or a glass. Place the biscuits in cast-iron skillets, then brush the tops with the melted butter. Bake until golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes, then set aside to cool a little.
• For the sandwiches: Next, add the sausage patties to a skillet over medium heat and fry until cooked through. Set aside and keep warm. In the same skillet, fry the eggs, turning them over to cook the yolks through.
• Now make a sandwich by cutting a biscuit in half. Put a sausage patty on the bottom half. Top with an egg, some hot sauce and a slice of cheese. Cover with the top and eat, or wrap in foil to keep warm.

BONNIE'S OLD FASHIONED BISCUITS

Steps:

• Before you begin, make sure all ingredients are ice cold, and make the biscuits quickly and get them into the oven before they heat up. That is the secret of a tall and flaky biscuit. Of course, not handling them too much and the addition of cream of tartar is important, too. I use a parchment lined 9X13 metal baking pan for my biscuits. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Bake about 15 minutes until golden brown or a little darker, like mine. This recipe makes 6 large biscuits.
• # Flour a cutting board. # Mix the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. # Mix the egg with the buttermilk in a small bowl, and keep it in the fridge. # Use a pastry cutter to cut the ice cold grated butter into the dry ingredients until it is the size of a pea. You will see little "peas" of butter in the flour. (just like you do when making pie crusts) # Now add the cold milk and egg mixture to the flour and butter. # Gently mix it quickly with a wooden spoon, (over handling makes biscuits tough.) # Turn out on the floured cutting board, and flour your hands. # Knead lightly, and pat the dough with your hands to a thickness of one inch. # Cut with a large biscuit cutter. # Place biscuits in the parchment lined pan. Bake about 15 minutes in the hot oven, and brush tops with butter before serving. Enjoy!