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    These tender biscuits are best eaten right from the oven. Adjust the cayenne pepper to your taste.
    Martha Stewart Living, June/July 1992
    • Yield Makes 20 biscuits
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    Ingredients

    • 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 4 teaspoons baking powder
    • 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
    • 1 tablespoon sugar
    • 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
    • 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
    • 1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
    • 2/3 cup milk

    Directions

    1. Heat oven to 425 degrees. In a large bowl, thoroughly combine flour, salt, baking powder, cream of tartar, sugar, and cayenne.
    2. Cut butter into pieces, and work it in with your fingers until mixture is coarse and crumbly. Stir in cheese.
    3. Make a well in center of flour mixture, pour in milk, and stir with a fork just until dough comes together. Do not overmix. Turn onto a lightly floured surface, and knead gently 10 to 12 times.
    4. Pat dough into a circle about 1/2 inch thick. Cut out biscuits using a floured 2-inch-round cutter. Do not twist cutter. Transfer biscuits to a lightly buttered baking sheet, and bake until brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Serve hot.

    Recipe Reviews

    • JaneRW
      12 Sep, 2010

      Also, if you dont like spicy hot biscuits, either decrease the cayenne, or substitute paprika.

    • JaneRW
      12 Sep, 2010

      You can make the biscuits look more "country" by just cutting the sheet of dough into squares (for a rectangle/square of dough) or triangles (for a circle of dough). A pizza cutter is sharp and makes the cutting fast...they will rise great.

    • jdorney
      16 May, 2008

      My guests can't get enough of these. Be sure not to twist the cutter so bisquits will rise properly.

    • annareider
      22 Nov, 2007

      these biscuits are amazing! thank you for the recipe!

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