Cornmeal-Crusted Buttermilk Biscuits |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 0 Minutes Servings: 1 |
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I have a husband who wants bread with every meal, Fernald says. I can never plan far enough in advance for bread, so I make biscuits. These can also be shaped ahead and baked at the last minute. Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups flour |
1 tablespoon baking powder |
1 teaspoon salt |
1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
1 tablespoon sugar |
1/2 cup cold unsalted fresh lard* or butter, cut into cubes, plus butter for tops of biscuits |
1 to 1 1/4 cups buttermilk |
1 cup cornmeal or polenta |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 500°. Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and sugar together in a large bowl.
2. Add lard and rub into flour mixture with your fingertips, or use two knives to cut it in, until flour looks like fine meal with some pea-size lumps.
3. Make a well in flour mixture and pour in 1 cup buttermilk. Blend flour into buttermilk with your fingers. Mixture should be quite moist; add a little more buttermilk if you need to (with lard, it's likely).
4. Spread half the cornmeal on a work surface and turn biscuit dough onto cornmeal. Sprinkle with rest of cornmeal and pat into a 10-in. round, pressing in the cornmeal. Grease a large cast-iron skillet.*
5. Cut dough into 12 wedges. Using a spatula, transfer wedges to pan, spaced slightly apart so edges get crisp. Top each biscuit with a dab of butter.
6. Bake until golden, 20 to 25 minutes.
7. *Order fresh lard from your butcher, or buy at a farmers' market. You can also bake biscuits on a baking sheet, spaced a little apart, if you like.
8. Make ahead: Through step 5, 2 hours.
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