Biscuits

Ingredients
This is actually Alton Brown's grandmother's biscuit recipe.

• 2 cups flour
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 4 tbsp butter
• 1 cup buttermilk

Directions:
Preheat oven to 450.
In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients.
Cut the butter into the dry ingredients and then pinch with your fingers like you would with scones.
Add buttermilk and mix until just combined. Dough should be sticky.
Turn dough out onto a floured surface and fold over onto itself a few times to make sure all the flour etc. is incorporated.
Press into a 1-inch thick round.
Use a 2" biscuit cutter (we used a 2" heart-shaped cookie cutter, which worked ok) and push straight down through the dough. Do not use a glass or a jar or whatever. The cutting surface should be very thin. Otherwise you'll squish the dough, and you don't want that.
Place biscuits on a baking sheet.
Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on the top, 15 minutes.

Thoughts: These were easy to make and pretty good. We did a half batch and cooked them for 15 minutes and it was too much -- they were dark gold and a little dry. Luckily, the cure for this is to eat them with gravy, which just makes everyone happy.

Disaster Index: 2/10