This comes from Cowboy Kent Rowlins
Buttermilk Biscuits
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- 3 tbsp sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 4 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
- ¾ cup chilled butter (it should be hard)
- 1 egg
- 1¼ cups buttermilk
Directions
- Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and cream of tartar.
- Cut ⅛ inch slices of butter into the mixture then break butter into crumbles in the mixture using a fork.
- Lightly whip the egg and pour into the mixture.
- Por in buttermilk and mix until incorporated into a moist, lumpy dough.
- Sprinkle flour over the dough and coat your hands in flour then knead into a ball (30 second should do).
- Spread for on the counter then place the dough on the counter and knead it for another minute to get everything well incorporated.
- Roll dough into a ½ inch thick sheet.
- Cut biscuits into 3″ circles and place in a little buttered baking dish.
- Bake at 400° for 25(ish) minutes (while you make the gravy). (Still figuring out the exact time as I did it by look the first time.)
Sausage Gravy
Ingredients
- 1 lb sausage
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup flour
- 4 cups milk
Directions
- Cook the sausage then set the meat aside.
- Melt butter in the pan with any liquid from the sausage.
- Sprinkle flour into the butter/fat mixture a little at a time and stir incorporate it using a spatula with holes to prevent any lumps.
- Pour in milk until it is a little runnier than you’d want the gravy and mix well.
- Add the sausage and simmer until you get the consistency you want.