Buttermilk Cake Flour Biscuits with Bacon Creamed Gravy
Made some of these this morning and
served them with bacon gravy on top.
Really good!
2 cups Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1 cup Cake Flour
1 teaspoon table salt
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 Tablespoons white granulated sugar
5 Tablespoons butter flavor shortening
1 cup buttermilk
Sift together the flours, salt, baking powder, baking soda and sugar.
Cut in the shortening, leaving a few pea size pieces of shortening intact.
Stir in the buttermilk with a fork until the dough comes together.
Place dough on breadboard and knead and fold 4 or 5 times.
Press dough to 1/2 inch thick.
Cut with a 2 1/2-inch biscuit cutter and place biscuits on cookie sheet, close together.
Bake in 400-F preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Biscuits are done when golden brown on edges and the center temperature of a biscuits reads at least 195-F.
Makes about 12 to 14 biscuits.
Bacon Creamed Gravy
4 Tablespoons Bacon Drippings (grease)
4 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 cups milk (2% or whole)
2 Tablespoons butter
3 or 4 slices of cooked bacon
about 1/4 teaspoon of table salt or seasoning salt (or to taste)
about 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper (or to taste)
Melt and heat bacon dripping over medium heat in a non-stick saucepan.
Stir in the flour slowly, keep stirring to avoid lumps.
Cook the bacon drippings and flour for about 4 or 5 minutes until the mixture is a light brown.
Slowly pour in the milk, stirring constantly to avoid lumps.
Reduce heat to medium low.
When gravy is bubbling stir in the butter.
Simmer gravy, stirring occasionally and scraping the pan bottom to avoid scorching. A rubber spatula works well for this.
Simmer the gravy for about 5 minutes until thickened.
Crumble the cooked bacon and stir into the gravy.
Season to taste with salt or seasoning salt and ground black pepper.
Makes 2 cups.
If you don’t have enough bacon drippings, you can add some other cooking oil to fill the 1/4 cup and stir in about a tablespoon of bacon bits from a jar at the end of the recipe.
Let me know. Then if it is good, I will make some and try it myself.