Butter Biscuits
I love having these biscuits with tea, they are just the perfect crunchy treat! Growing up, our cookie jar at home held these, not chocolate chips or Oreos!
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Baked Goods
Ingredients
7 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour, plus a bit more to dust the kneading surface
1 1/2 cups of sugar
3 1/2 cups of butter, softened
7 tablespoons of lard, melted
1 tablespoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of kosher salt
4 eggs, at room temperature
1 3/4 cups of milk, warm
Instructions
Preheat oven at 350 F, and lightly grease or line your baking trays with parchment paper.
Put the flour in a large bowl and create a well in the center by pushing up the flour to the sides of the bowl The old fashion way would be to add everything into the center of the well and mix everything together by hand if you want to give that a try, or…
…when I make them I like whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt together in a very large bowl… then make a well at the bottom of the bowl.
In a separate bowl I like to cream together the warm milk, sugar, butter, eggs and lard… then I add the creamed mixture into the center of the flour bowl and mix everything together until it gets too hard to mix with a spoon. At this point you can begin to knead by hand. Take the dough out of the bowl and place on floured surface and continue to knead until you can form the dough into a large ball.
Now you can start to break off small pieces of dough and roll them out into wreath shapes with the ends crisscrossing each other.
Place on baking trays and bake until golden in color. Depending on your oven it should take about 20 minutes.
Notes
This number of biscuits you make will depend on how big you make them!
