Southern Biscuits

Yummy

* 2 cups flour
* 4 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
* 3/4 teaspoon salt
* 2 tablespoons butter
* 2 tablespoons shortening
* 1 cup buttermilk, chilled

Directions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.

Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey, that's life.)

Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes

Portugese Sweet Bread

A good bread, not quite the sweetened flavor I am looking for, but it is good. The bread was sliced and eaten too quickly pictures didn't get taken this time.

* 1 cup milk
* 1 egg
* 2 tablespoons margarine
* 1/3 cup white sugar
* 3/4 teaspoon salt
* 3 cups bread flour
* 2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast


DIRECTIONS

1. Add ingredients in order suggested by your manufacturer of your bread machine.
2. Select "sweet bread" setting.

Ever since going to Hawaii and having sweet bread in a local bakery I fell in love with it. I haven't found a recipe that has turned out yet, but still looking.