Best: Golden Tea Biscuits Recipe

Best: Golden Tea Biscuits Recipe

Yield: 13 Biscuits
Recipe by luhu.jp

Ingredients:

BEST BISCUIT MIX
9 cup: Cake-and-pastry flour,
1 cup: Skim milk powder,
1/2 cup: Granulated sugar,
1/4 cup: Baking powder,
1 tbsp: Salt,
2 tsp: Baking soda,
1 lbs: Shortening,

GOLDEN TEA BISCUITS
3 cup: Mix "Best: Biscuit Mix",
3/4 cup: Water,

Directions:

Best Biscuit Mix:

In large bowl, stir together flour, milk powder, sugar, baking
powder, salt and baking soda. Using pastry blender, cut in shortening
until mixture is in fine crumbs.

[For storage: transfer to airtight container; store in refrigerator
for up to 2 months.

Stir well before using.

Golden Tea Biscuits:

In bowl and using fork, quickly stir biscuit mix [see Best: Biscuit
Mix recipe] with water until sticky dough forms. Turn out onto
lightly floured surface; knead 6 times.

Press into 1-inch thick round. With lightly floured 2-inch round
cutter, cut out rounds, rerolling scraps once.

Bake on baking sheet in 450F 230C oven for 10-12 minutes or until
golden brown. Let cool in pan on rack.

[Biscuits can be individually warped and frozen in airtight container
for up to 2 weeks.]

Variations:

Cheese Biscuits: Add 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese to dry
ingredients of Best: Golden Tea Biscuits recipe. Makes 14

Herb Biscuits: Add 2 tb chopped fresh herbs to dry ingredients of
Best: Golden Tea Biscuits recipe. Makes 13

Sweet Raisin Biscuits: Add 2 ts cinnamon and 3/4 cup raisins to dry
ingredients of Best: Golden Tea Biscuits recipe. Makes 14.

Source: Canadian Living magazine, Oct 94 Presented in article by
Elizabeth Baird: "Baking Up The Best" Recipe by Canadian Living Test
Kitchen

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