BONNIE'S BREAKFAST BISCUITS

Steps:

• 1. Following this recipe to the letter will assure good results. Don't substitute ingredients. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees. Read the recipe through and assemble all ingredients before beginning. Add the dry ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl. Mix well.
• 2. Measure the cold unsalted butter and cut it into small pieces. Add them to the flour and with your fingers and cut through the flour until it resembles coarse ground cornmeal.
• 3. Mixing is crucial. If you overdo it, the biscuits will be tough. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in all of the buttermilk. Using a wooden spoon, carefully scrape the spoon down the sides and under the flour mixture and roll to the middle. Go all around the bowl and just a couple of gentle passes through the middle should remove all dry flour. The dough will be sticky. Use as little flour as possible to form the dough.
• 4. Now form the dough into a round ball, dipping your hands in flour to keep them from being sticky ,and shake off the excess flour. When you have formed a ball, turn it out onto a floured cutting board. Pat the dough to ½ inch thick and cut with a two inch biscuit cutter. This recipe makes about 12 biscuits.
• 5. Don't do any extra shaping or over handle the dough (this is very important!) Place the biscuits in a greased 12 inch cast iron skillet.
• 6. Bake the biscuits in the pre-heated oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until they are a nice golden brown.
• 7. This may sound odd, but I serve my hot biscuits from my soup tureen that has a lid to keep them warm. They stay warm a long time in that container, and it looks cool!