Southern Buttermilk Biscuits

Surprisingly good despite looking terrible.

Southern Buttermilk Biscuits

2 c flour
1/4 t baking soda
1 T baking powder
pinch salt
6 T butter, cold
1 c buttermilk
1/2 c sugar

Preheat oven to 450F.  Butter baking sheet.  Cut butter into the flour, soda, powder, and salt. I left it in enormous chunks.  Add the buttermilk, barely mixing, and sugar.

Directions are to gently pat the dough on a floured surface into a 1/2" thick layer.  Then fold over itself several times, patting back down into a 1" thick layer.  Cut out with a round cutter.

Instead, due to lack of time and other pressures, I broke off sticky clumps and formed small mounds on the baking sheet, patting those down to about 1" thick.

Bake for about 20 min.  The result looked crusty and burnt, so probably a hair less time would be ideal, but the biscuits were crunchy outside and soft inside.  Perfect.

Next time, I would likely use less sugar - these were quite sweet in the Southern tradition.