Recipe - Hot Strawberry Biscuits

=== BISCUITS ===
1 cup Sifted unbleached
allpurpose flour
2 tablespoon Sugar
1 One half teaspoon Baking powder
1/8 teaspoon Baking soda
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 One half teaspoon Minced fresh rosemary
1 teaspoon Finelygrated lemon zest
3 tablespoon Vegetable shortening;
chilled
One half cup Buttermilk
One half cup Diced strawberries
=== GLAZE ===
3 tablespoon Unsalted butter; melted
1 One half tablespoon Sugar
2 teaspoon Lemon juice
1 teaspoon Finelygrated lemon zest

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, sift together the flour,
sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the rosemary and lemon
zest, and mix until combined. Quickly blend in the shortening until the
mixture resembles coarse meal. Make a well in the center and stir in the
buttermilk and strawberries until just blended. Do not over mix. Turn the
dough out onto a wellfloured board and knead gently 2 to 3 times. Pat the
dough into a circle about 1/2inch thick. Using a 3inch round cookie
cutter, cut out biscuits and place on a lightly buttered baking sheet. Bake
until golden, about 20 minutes. Transfer biscuits to a rack to cool. In a
bowl, combine the melted butter, sugar, and lemon juice and zest. Brush
glaze over warm biscuits. this recipe yields 6 to 8 biscuits.

Recipe Source: COOKING LIVE with Sara Moulton Recipe adapted from Nicole
Routhier's Fruit Cookbook From the TV FOOD NETWORK (Show # CL8911)

Formatted for MasterCook by Joe Comiskey, aka MR MAD jpmd44a@prodigy.com
~or MADSQUAD@prodigy.net

02181999

Recipe by: Nicole Routhier

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