Presents
"From Sandi's Recipe
File"
Presents
"From Sandi's Recipe
File"
Step By Step Kids' Cook Book from Better Homes and Gardens
Serving Size: Makes 13 or 14 biscuits
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Daisy Biscuits
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Preparation Instructions:1. Soften the butter and cream cheese by setting them out of the refrigerator at least 30 minutes before making the biscuits. This will make the butter and cream cheese easy to mix.
2. Measure the 2 cups flour, baking powder, and salt. Put them into a mixing bowl. Stir with a wooden spoon till mixed well. Add softened butter or margarine and cream cheese. With a pastry blender, use an up and down motion to mix the butter and cream cheese with the flour mixture. Stop once in a while and use a rubber scraper to remove any butter or cream cheese that sticks to the pastry blender. Mix till pieces of butter and cream cheese are the size of small peas.
3. Measure the milk. Add the milk to the flour mixture. Stir with the wooden spoon just till the dry ingredients are wet. Do not stir the dough too much or the biscuits will be tough. Sprinkle a pastry cloth or sheet of waxed paper with 3 to 4 teaspoons flour.
4. Spoon the dough out of the mixing bowl and onto the pastry cloth or waxed paper. Turn the dough over to coat it with flour. Use your hands to shape it into a ball. Sprinkle a little flour onto a rolling pin. Use the rolling pin to roll out the dough on the pastry cloth or waxed paper to make a 12 x 7 inch rectangle. (Dough will be slightly less than 1/2 inch thick.) Use a ruler to check the size.
5. Turn oven to 450 degrees. Put 2 or 3 tablespoons flour into a custard cup. Dip a 2 1/2 inch biscuit cutter into flour and then cut the dough into biscuit s by pressing down firmly on the biscuit cutter. Cut the biscuits as close together as possible. Dip the biscuit cutter into flour after you cut each biscuit. This will stop the dough from sticking to the biscuit cutter.
6. Carefully lift scraps of dough from around cut biscuits. Set this extra dough aside to roll out again for more biscuits.
7. To make the daisy design, use the kitchen scissors to make 5 small cuts around the edge of each biscuit. Do not cut all the way to the center. Use a pancake turner to lift the daisy biscuits onto a cookie sheet. Roll out the scraps of dough. Cut more biscuits and make daisy design in these biscuits too.
8. Press your thumb into the center of each biscuit to make a hole. Spoon 1/2 teaspoon of your favorite jam or jelly into the center of each biscuit.
9. Put the cookie sheet into the hot oven. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or till golden. Turn off oven. Use hot pads to remove the cookie sheet from oven. With pancake turner, lift biscuits off cookie sheet and onto a serving plate. Serve warm. Make 13 or 14 biscuits.
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