Recipe - Batter Biscuits

1 tablespoon Salt
One half tablespoon Baking Powder
One fourth teaspoon Baking Soda; or less to
taste
2 1/3 cup Flour
1 qt Buttermilk; or more as
needed
2 Eggs
One half pound Butter

Preheat oven to 425°. Mix dry ingredients. Add buttermilk until about the
consistency of pancake batter. Beat eggs and add to batter. Batter must be
slightly thinner than pancake batter and beaten very smooth. Melt butter.
Put One half tsp. in each hole of small muffin tins. Heat on surface until
butter is very hot. Spoon 1 tbsp. of batter into each hole and bake for 20
minutes. Turn out and serve immediately with your favorite jam or
preserves.

Makes 5 dozen biscuits.

Source: "Mountain Measures" Junior League of Charleston, WV ed. 1974

Typed for you by billspa@icancect.net

Recipe by: Traditional Appalachain recipe from Eastern Kentucky

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by "Bill Spalding" billspa@icanect.net on May
3, 1998