Butter and Lard Biscuits

Name: Butter and Lard Biscuits
Yield: Serves 9
Ingredients: 6 ounces, lard; 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 4½ cups (22½ ounces), all-purpose flour; 1½ tablespoons, sugar; 1½ tablespoons, baking powder; ¾ teaspoon, baking soda; 1½ teaspoons, table salt; 1¼ cups, buttermilk

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2022

Desserts or Baked Goods

Breads

A combination of lard and butter produces flaky, tender, mouthwatering biscuits.

SERVES9

TIME40 minutes, plus 50 minutes freezing and chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

A combination of lard and butter produced flaky, tender, mouthwatering biscuits. We started by processing the dry ingredients separately in a food processor to ensure that they were thoroughly combined. We then added chilled pieces of fat (...

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