Tillamook Smoked Cheddar Biscuits With Crisp Bacon and Apricots |
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 15 Minutes |
Ready In: 25 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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Oregon is well-known for it's delicious Tillamook cheeses! Here's a tasty and easy recipe featuring smoked cheddar from the Tillamook recipe contest in 2001, and submitted by Patty Cheng, Mountain View, California. Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour |
1 tablespoon baking powder |
2 teaspoons sugar |
1/2 teaspoon salt |
1/4 teaspoon white pepper |
5 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces (can use tillamook brand) |
5 slices bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled |
1/3 cup chopped dried apricot |
3/4 cup tillamook smoked cheddar cheese, shredded & chilled |
3/4 cup buttermilk (can use tillamook brand) |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
2. In a large electric mixer with paddle attachment, combine the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and white pepper.
3. Add cold butter pieces and mix until flour mixture has a coarse meal texture.
4. Add the bacon, apricots, and smoked cheddar cheese and mix until well-combined.
5. On low speed, gradually add the buttermilk and mix until a dough is formed.
6. Turn the dough out onto a lightly-floured board and gently knead 8 times.
7. Pat or roll out the dough to 1-inch thick, and use a biscuit or cookie cutter to cut the biscuits (re-gathering and re-rolling as necessary to use up the dough).
8. Place on a lightly-greased and floured baking sheet, and bake at 425 degrees F on the middle oven rack for 15 minutes and biscuit tops are golden.
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