Recipe - Oatmeal Currant Buttermilk Drop Biscuits

1 One half cup Flour
2 teaspoon Doubleacting baking powder
One half teaspoon Baking soda
2 tablespoon Sugar
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
Three fourths teaspoon Cinnamon
One half cup Cold, unsalted butter; cut
into bits
Three fourths cup Quickcooking oats
One half cup Dried currants, soak in
boiling water; 5 minutes
2/3 cup Plus 2 T. buttermilk

Into a bowl, sift together the flour, the baking powder, the baking soda,
the sugar, the salt and the cinnamon. Add the butter and blend the mixture
until it resembles meal. Stir in the oats and the currants, drained. Add
the buttermilk and stir until the mixture just forms a soft sticky dough.
Drop the dough by rounded tablespoon onto a buttered baking sheet and bake
the biscuits in the middle of a preheated 425 oven for 15 to 17 minutes, or
until pale golden. Makes about 16 biscuits.
Posted to EATL Digest 07 Sep 96

Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 10:31:29 0400

From: Laura Hunter LHunter722@AOL.COM