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Baking Powder Biscuits

Baking Powder Biscuits Ingredients: wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate salt, table butter, without salt cream, fluid, heavy whipping Dir...

Baking Powder Biscuits

Ingredients:
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate
salt, table
butter, without salt
cream, fluid, heavy whipping

Directions:
Preheat oven to 450F.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, and set aside.
Put flour, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl, and whisk to mix.
Using fingers or 2 forks, quickly work butter into flour until it is the texture of oatmeal with some larger lumps remaining.
Make a well in center of flour, and pour in cream.
Stir just until blended.
Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface, and knead briefly but strongly, for 6 or 7 strokes.
Roll out dough to a thickness of 1/2 inch.
Using a floured fork, prick surface of dough all over at 1-inch intervals, taking care that fork goes through dough.
Using a 3-inch biscuit cutter, stamp out dough.
Place biscuits close together on baking sheet.
Bake in center of oven for 8 to 12 minutes, or until biscuits are crusty and are a rich golden brown.
Remove from oven, and serve.