So the whole time I thought I had baking powder! Normally I wouldn’t care but it was supposed to be a meal for someone else! I read that in order to use baking soda for biscuits you have to have cream of tarter which I never have. I did find corn starch in my cabinet so I hoped that I could use that instead. They really came out the way that I would always want biscuits to be with gravy!
2 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp corn starch
1 tbs sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/3 cup butter
1 cup 1/2 & 1/2
I think you could use milk but I didn’t have that.
Mix the dry ingredients together. Grate the really cold butter with a cheese grater into the dry mixture and spread the small pieces around to distribute them into the flour sort of evenly. Pour in the milk or 1/2 & 1/2 and stir. Make sure that it’s not too dry or too runny and knead it a very small amount. Don’t knead it like bread because biscuits will be tough and hard if you do. You can do drop biscuits. If you roll them out and cut them out with a glass they might not rise as much. I measured the dough with a small measuring cup to make them all an even size. Don’t look at them too long because that will just RUIN them. Put some oil into a pie plate and throw them in then place them in a heated 375 degree oven.
For the gravy I made a roux which sounds really complicated but it isn’t! I used 1 stick and another Tbs of butter melt it gently then add as many TBS of flour as you did butter and let it cook a little while so that the won’t taste the flour any more. Keep stirring it the whole time. Then add in milk. I used 1/2 & 1/2 but it was way too thick and I ended up adding water.
I had a hamburger patty already cooked and I diced it fried it a little in a small amount of water then added the gravy in. I don’t like a lot of oil from the fried meat so that took care of that. If you cook hamburger to use instead you can always rinse the hamburger in a strainer after you fry it to remove the fat. Have you seen the fat once it cools?? It looks like paste. I do not want that paste to flavor my gravy that much! Make sure that you add salt and pepper and then pour it over the biscuits. I don’t normally eat biscuits and gravy but this was really good.
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