Good Morning
By Tom // Posted 21 March, 2009 in: Food + Drink
I’ve been craving McDonald’s sausage biscuits all week for some reason, but the grocery store is closer than McDonald’s. Buttermilk is a wonderful thing.
5 comments | Biscuits, Breakfast, Buttermilk, McDonald's, Sausage
This entry was posted by Tom on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 at 8:17 am and is filed under Food + Drink. You can subscribe to responses to this entry via RSS.
Nice light.
I’ve been craving this as well. In fact a couple weeks ago I bought all the ingredients, but seeing this post inspired me to clean my kitchen and cook.
Mine are a bit more Pillsbury/Jimmy Dean but were pretty great nonetheless…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterleenhouts/sets/72157615630464159/
Those look great, Peter! This is the true breakfast of champions
How about the recipe!
Always willing to oblige with a recipe. The biscuit recipe is from Cook’s Illusrated (surprise surprise) #69. Combine 2c flour with 1 T baking powder, 1 T sugar, 1 t salt, and 1/2 t baking soda in food processor, run for a few seconds to combine. Add a half stick of cold butter cut into chunks and then pulse it to cut the butter in, 6 or so one-second pulses. Mixture will resemble wet sand. Dump this into a bowl and add 1 1/2 c cold buttermilk. Mix until everything is just incorporated but batter is still lumpy. Using a quarter cup measure to portion, make lumps of batter, coat them in flour, and set them in a greased, floured cake pan. Bake at 500 degrees for 5 minutes then 450 degrees for another 15. Cool, turn out, and eat. Despite the claims Cook’s would probably make I doubt the measurements here are too important; what is important is buttermilk.
The sausage was bulk mild Italian. Breakfast sausage would be better, but it is hard to find a good one around here. I would like to develop my own recipe; does anybody have any suggestions?