How Drew makes biscuits

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Biscuits

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
• 2 cups milk
• 4 cups self-rising flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup butter

Process

1. Pre-heat oven to 400F
2. Combine vinegar and milk in a glass, and let stand 10 minutes
3. Sift dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl
4. Cut butter into dry ingredients, leaving pea-sized pieces of butter (tip: use a food processor)
5. Mix soured milk into the dry ingredients until a shaggy dough forms
6. Knead on a floured surface minimally (tip: I fold the dough four times, flouring the dough's surface each time)
7. Pat or roll dough to desired thickness (I aim for 3/4 in.) and punch 2" biscuits (tip: flour your punch between each biscuit)
8. Bake for 12-15 minutes (tip: arrange the biscuits so they touch each other, and place the scrap dough on the open edges for a better rise)
9. Optionally brush finished biscuits with melted butter (tip: don't treat this as optional)

Makes a baker's dozen tall biscuits with scrap dough.