Alabama Muffin Biscuits Food

ALABAMA MUFFIN BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (176°C). Butter a muffin tin containing 6 jumbo or 12 standard muffin cups.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda on low speed until evenly distributed. Add the butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, and continue to mix on low just until the mixture is crumbly and there are pea-sized clumps scattered throughout. Slowly pour in the buttermilk and stir just until the dough looks evenly moistened. (It might seem counterintuitive, but the trick is to NOT stir until the dough comes together into a ball or you will end up with a tough muffin. What you want to see in the bowl are various-size lumps of butter and wet flour with some lingering bits of dry flour.)
• Using a spoon or rubber spatula, gently stir up from the bottom of the bowl to incorporate any larger pockets of dry ingredients that remain into the batter. Using an ice-cream scoop, a large spoon, or even your hands, divide the dough evenly among the muffin cups. Since this dough remains loose and crumbly, you'll need to press it into the scoop or in your fist and glom into the cups. If you're concerned things still look dry and powdery, top each muffin with a little butter, which will, in a sense, baste the muffin while it bakes. And let's face it, since when did more butter ever make anything worse?
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes for smaller muffin biscuits, 30 to 35 minutes for large muffin biscuits. More important than the actual timing is the visual appearance-the tops of the muffin biscuits should turn a darkish golden brown and look ruggedly lumpy and, if you touch the tops, they should feel firm. Cool the muffin biscuits in the tin on a wire rack for 5 minutes then tip them onto the rack to cool or, if you just can't help yourselves, to consume immediately.

SOUTHERN BISCUIT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Grease one 12-cup muffin pan (2&1/2-inch size).
• In large bowl combine flour, sugar and baking powder.
• Cut butter into thin slices and add to dry mixture.
• Using a pastry cutter or low speed of your mixer, combine the butter with the dry mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs.
• Stir in milk, with a spoon or fork.
• Stirring only until flour mixture is moistened.
• Batter will be thick and lumpy.
• Spoon into muffin cups, dividing evenly between all 12 cups.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until tops are golden brown.
• When done, remove from muffin pan immediately.

ALABAMA BISCUIT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees; grease a 12-cup muffin tin with butter and set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
• Add the butter and rub it into the flour with your fingertips till the mixture is mealy.
• Add the buttermilk and stir till the dough is slightly firm.
• Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin tin and bake in the center of the oven till brown and crusty, 40-45 minutes.

ALABAMA BISCUITS

Steps:

• Lightly grease a rimmed baking sheet.
• Dissolve the yeast in the warm water in a small bowl; set aside to proof for 5-10 minutes, until foamy.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt together into the bowl of a stand mixer or a large bowl.
• Add the yeast mixture, oil, and milk and mix well.
• Knead in a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook or by hand for 5-7 minutes.
• Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of 1/4 inch.
• Cut out 30 rounds with a 2-inch biscuit cutter.
• Dip the bottom of 15 of the rounds into the melted butter and stack them on the remaining 15 rounds, to make a total of 15 biscuits.
• Arrange on the prepared baking sheet and let rise in a warm place away from drafts for 1 hour, until they double in volume.
• Preheat the oven to 425°; bake the biscuits for about 15 minutes, until nicely browned.
• Serve immediately.

ALABAMA BISCUITS

Steps:

• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Dissolve yeast in water; Add buttermilk and add in sifted ingredients mixing well. Knead 20 times and roll out 1/4" thick.
• Cut with biscuit cutter or 1" drinking glass. Butter biscuits with brush and stack in twos, let rise for 2 hours.
• Bake at 425 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes, or until brown.