Hubby Likes My New Biscuit!

I have to be honest, Hubby’s never really been that thrilled with my biscuits.  Oh, they’re good enough that he doesn’t complain when I make them, but I hear the occasional, “These aren’t like the ones I grew up on.”  With that in mind, I’ve been trying to keep my eyes open for biscuit recipes that are different than the usual cut in butter, add cream and/or buttermilk.  Recently, I stumbled across exactly what I was looking for.  Ok, so I didn’t immediately realize it was what I was looking for.  In fact, when I saw 7 up in the ingredients list, I was more than a little skeptical. 

Here’s what you’ll need:

• 1 ¾ cups flour
• 1 Tablespoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 Tablespoons butter, cold
• ½ cup sour cream
• ½ cup lemon lime soda
• ¼ cup butter, melted

Preheat your oven to 425°.  Melt ¼ cup butter and set it aside to cool.  In a mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. 

Cut your cold butter into little chunks and throw them in. 

Turn the mixer on lowish speed and mix until you have something that sort of resembles moist sand.

A pastry blender will also work fine for that, but as you know by now, I’m lazy.  Add the sour cream.  Now, ordinarily I use low fat sour cream.  For tacos or whatever, I just prefer the texture.  However, biscuits need fat, so make sure you use regular, full fat, sour cream. 

Mix that in until it’s incorporated and you have basically a crumbly mess.

Pour in the soda.  It’ll foam up quite a bit as you add it, but don’t worry. 

I know you’re questioning my sanity at this point, and perhaps you should.  But stay with me on the biscuits, you’ll be glad you did.  Stir just until it comes together into a soft, sticky dough. 

Pour your melted butter into the bottom of an 8x8 pan. 

Dust your countertop with plenty of flour.  Scoop the dough onto it, and sprinkle it with flour as well. 

Pat it into a disc about ¾ of an inch thick.  The dough is soft enough, you won’t need a rolling pin. 

Flour your cutter and push it straight down through the dough.  Gather the scraps and repeat.  You should get 9 biscuits. 

Place the cut biscuits into the pan. 

Then flip them over so both sides are liberally coated with butter.  Oh shush, they’re biscuits, not health food. 

Into the preheated oven for 15 – 20 minutes.  They should be nice and golden brown when they’re done.

You could eat them just as they are, they really are fabulous.  Crispy on the outside and soft and tender within.  We had them with sausage gravy, but honey or homemade strawberry jam are also good accompaniments. 

What childhood recipe does your hubby wish you could make? 

Comments

[Seeley]

Hm. Soda? I'm sure your was made with cane sugar of some sort, but I'm generally opposed to anything called "soda". I wonder if they'd work with some kind of sparkling water, like perrier or pelligrino?

[Elise Logan]

maybe the lemon san pelligrino?

I've seen similar recipes and every time I do, people are raving about them. But, honestly? Hickepedia makes amazing buttermilk biscuits. So I'm not trading.

In terms of making something from Hickepedia's childhood...um. no. I can already replicate his mother's favorite family dinner: Stouffer's lasagna. I just don't want to.

[angel]

Biscuits...yummy. Sausage and gravy biscuits...way yummy.

[Taneasha]

@Seeley - I did buy soda made with cane sugar and no artificial flavors. You could certainly use sparkling water, but if it isn't sweetened, you'll just want to add a little sugar to the dry ingredients.