Breads, Breakfast

Aunt Cora's Sourdough Biscuits

  • 1 1/2 cups Sifted unbleached flour
  • 2 tablespoons Sugar
  • 3 teaspoons Baking powder
  • 1/4 cup Melted butter or shortening
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 1/2 cups Amish Sourdough bread starter (BREADS)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking soda

    • More baking soda may be added if the starter is very sour. Place flour in a bowl, add starter in a well, then add melted shortening or butter and dry ingredients sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix lightly and turn out onto alightly floured board and knead until the consistency of bread dough, or a satiny finish. Pat or roll out dough to 1/2-inch thickness, cut and put on a greased pan. Coat all sides of biscuits with melted butter. Let rise over boiling water for 1/2 hour. Bake at 425º F. for 15 to 20 minutes.

    This recipe courtesy of the From My Kitchen Cookbook. 

    Contributed by Ronald Walton of New York, New York. 

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