Chicken Soup
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Cooking time: 20 minutes for menu Cooking schedule: see below for "menu" instructions |
Chicken Soup Time: 10 minutes
Remove soup from fridge. Heat and eat
Oatmeal Biscuits Time: 20 minutes
if you don't have oatmeal you can substitute 1/2 cup chopped nuts or 1/3 cup more flour
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sugar
2 tbs butter (chilled is best)
1 1/2 tsp lemon juice and enough milk to equal 1/2 cup let stand 5 - 10 minutes...you are making
buttermilk. You should may not use all of it = it depends on whether you are using the oatmeal, nuts,
flour...and how humid it is ;)
Combine lemon juice and milk and set aside to sour. Put all dry ingredients into bowl. Add butter and cut in with pastry blender, fork or 2 knives. The idea is to get the butter and flour mixed so that it looks like tiny pebbles or coarse sand. Add half the milk and stir lightly and briefly until just sort of combined. Add the a bit more milk until you get it to sort of stay together. (The way to make light biscuits is a minimum of handling - trust me, it works.) Scoop dough out onto a heavily floured surface - any clean counter top or table will work. Knead lightly 5 - 7 times - that is: press it together lightly, turn it over and do it again, folding it over on itself as you turn it. It is not going to look well mixed or smooth lake bread dough. Rub flour on a rolling pin and lightly roll dough out to 3/4 inch (1.25 cm) thickness. Try to get it square shaped. Instead of the usual circles cut the dough into 2 - 2.5 inch (5 - 6.25cm) squares. This makes all of the biscuits from one rolling - less handling. Put on a baking sheet and bake for 10 - 12 minutes in 450F (225C) oven or until lightly browned. Remove and serve immediately. For those not familiar with baking powder biscuits - they are light and wonderful eaten with melted butter while still hot from the oven. They resemble hockey pucks the next day so don't other to save the leftovers.
Note: This will yield 5 - 8 biscuits.
Cooking Schedule: 20 minutes |
Add more milk as needed
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Cooking for Two? Or more?
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