Biscuits
The biscuit saga continues so I left the roman numeral the same.
Because I’m me, all sorts of things changed. They were larger in diameter because I made them egg-ring size, not biscuit-cutter size, to make bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits.
I decided to “go big” and hammer them with leavening.
120 g Hungarian flour
1 Tbl baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
4 Tbl butter
80 g milk
1/4 tsp citric acid solution
The citric acid solution (20 g citric acid/30 g water) is left over from a previous recipe (I don’t recall what it was; it may be here, somewhere). It’s very strong; it started curdling the milk . The Hungarian flour is also a left-over. It makes super fluffy bread. So fluffy that it is difficult to cut, not smush. I also used the “grate the butter” trick.
I like rolled biscuits, so I worked fast and folded them four times. This mostly worked. I rolled them too thin and got two egg-ring size and two biscuit-cutter size. I think two instead of four would have been almost perfect. They were a bit salty, so maybe 1/3 tsp salt.
I screwed up the baking. I was using the bakrowave and forgot that it works like a microwave, not an oven: After you open the door, you must press the start button to turn it on, again. I just stuffed them in and walked away. I noticed five minutes later that the timer had not changed then pressed the start button. It was preheated, but five minutes in a cooling oven probably didn’t help the rise.
Next time: 1/3 tsp salt, thicker dough, and remember how my appliances work.
As an aside, the bakrowave is spiffy piece of kit. It’s an oven, broiler, and microwave and can do all the various combinations. The microwave/broiler combination is surprisingly handy, but a bit tricky: The broiler needs a preheat and the microwave power needs to be turned way down (400 watts).
We got a much cheaper Whirlpool one for the downstairs, rental kitchen – and no oven, just a cooktop. It’s big enough to bake something in, but only some “thing”. A Thanksgiving dinner would not be easy, but pizza or roasted veg should be fine. How many short-term renters are going to want to bake, anyway?
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