Biscuits, the ultimate comfort food

I have been sick the last 4 or 5 days, so nothing really sounds good to eat. The plus is since I am not that hungry and can't really taste anything, I think I have lost a couple of pounds.  Yesterday, biscuits sounded good.  I have been semi-successful in crafting biscuits in the past so I thought I'd try a batch.

My master helpers and I whipped up a batch of these heart shaped biscuits.  Rose thought they were cake and wanted icing and sprinkles on hers. What could it hurt? She ate every bite.  Later, my neighbor Tonya stopped by to look after the horses she is keeping here and she came in for a taste test.  She thought chocolate icing sounded pretty good too, so she had one a la Rose and also one with just butter and gave it a thumbs up both ways. I thought they were a little lacking in the salt department, but that may be because my taste buds are on hiatus. Once taste buds return I'll probably make them again and find they are as salty as hard tack made with sea water.

 

So here is the easy recipe:

2 cups flour

2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt 

3/4 cup milk

4 Tbls. butter

Dice the cold butter. I used salted butter.  Salt is good, I like it. I rarely by unsalted butter. As Ina always says (www.barefootcontessa.com), cold butter is the key to anything flaky (crusts, pastries, etc) Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder together.  Cut in the butter chunks. Rose did this, she liked stabbing at the stuff. Slowly add the milk.  I used my hands to mush it all together. Oh, you are supposed to pre-heat the oven, right?  400 degrees.  Now that you have flour all over your oven knob, roll out the dough on a floured surface.  Me? I hate rolling pins, so we just used our hands to push it out to about 1/2 inch thick.  Cut out your biscuits and you are ready to roll.  I got 11 heart shaped biscuits and one random dough ball out of it. 12-15 minutes in the oven.