Biscuits

VTLA President Vaden Warren's Super Secret Biscuit Recipe:

Ingredients

2 cups White Lily self-rising flour

¾ stick of unsalted butter

¾ - 1 cup of buttermilk

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

2. Sift flour into a mixing bowl. I think this helps keep the biscuit airy. Many people don’t sift. It is a personal choice.

3. Grate cold refrigerated butter into the flour. I like grating. It is easy and forms good size butter pieces in the dough. You can use a pastry cutter or two knives to break the butter up into pea size pieces but grating is easier to me.

4. Mix the butter and flour together and then add the buttermilk. You can use regular milk but it is worth the effort to get buttermilk. The exact amount is hard because it depends on the humidity and other factors. You want enough liquid to hold everything together.

5. With a fork mix flour, butter and buttermilk just until it can form a large ball.

6. Flour a cutting board and spread out the dough. You can use a roller. I mostly just use my hands.

7. Flatten out the dough and fold it in half and flatten again. Do this two or three times.

8. Cut the biscuits with a biscuit cutter and place them on a baking sheet. Do not twist the cutter after cutting.

9. Place in the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes.