For Christmas, Alice got me the new Jamie Deen cookbook "Good Food". He's got a bacon cheddar biscuit recipe in it that was easy and that I had all the ingredients for. Well, almost all. I am out of bacon and cheddar cheese, but I have gouda cheese and garlic powder so I improvised.
Preheat oven to 400.
1 1/2 cup Domata all purpose flour (or 1 3/4 cup regular all purpose flour)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
4 tablespoons butter (or margarine), chilled and cut into cubes
3/4 cup grated cheese
3/4 cup buttermilk
8 ounces cooked bacon (although I didn't put it in mine)
In a large bowl mix together Flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt.
Add in butter and cut in with a fork (or pastry cutter) until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs.
Stir in the cheese. (and bacon if you adding that)
Make a well in the center of the flour and all in butter milk (if you decide to add bacon you can also add the bacon drippings)
Mix until the dough is sticky and not completely mixed together.
Flour your work surface and dump contents of bowl out. Knead 3 or 4 times or until the mixture comes together. Pat into a rough round shape and press until it's about 3/4 to 1 inch thick. Use a biscuit round (or as you can see in my case, a glass)
(in true Christen fashion. I forgot to take a picture of this step, so here's the mess from after where you can see the cup I used.)
Place on a greased baking sheet and brush tops with a little buttermilk. (I sprinkled a little garlic powder on top also).
Bake for about 15 min or until they are lightly browned.
I hope you all like this one. If anyone elver has any changes they make please keep me posted because I'm always up for making things even better.
