Cooking Exceptionally With Gin Lee

Homemade buttermilk sunshine biscuits If you enjoy bread, today I am preparing my homemade buttermilk sunshine biscuits. These biscuits have nice, buttery flavored layers and a browned crunchy crust. To enhance the crust, I brush the tops of the dough with extra buttermilk before baking, then while the biscuits are baking, I brush the tops with melted butter to brown them. Plus, during the last few minutes of baking, I flip the biscuits over to brush the bottoms with extra melted butter. This is what creates the golden sunshine color on the outside of their crusts. Ingredients: 2-½ cups of self-rising flour, extra flour to roll the biscuits dough out 8-10 tablespoons of butter, softened 1 cup of buttermilk, plus three tablespoons to brush over the tops of your biscuit dough 2 tablespoons of melted butter, to brush over the tops of your biscuits when browning them Instructions: In a bowl, add the self-rising flour and softened butter together. You can use a food processor or cut the but...

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