Cornbread Biscuits
Recipe originally from smittenkitchen.com
BAKED GOODS
Contributed by Lyssa Manning
Clinical Research Project Manager
Harvard Aging Brain Study
Servings: makes 8 large biscuits
Ingredients
1 3/4 cups flour
2/3 cup cornmeal
1-2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
1 cup buttermilk
Method
1. Preheat oven to 450°F.
2. Mix dry ingredients (flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, salt) in a large
bowl.
3. Add butter to dry ingredients and toss to coat. Using your fingers (or a pastry
blender if you have one. I don't.) break up the butter into smaller pieces until
about the size of green peas.
4. Add buttermilk and stir to combine.
5. Press dough into roundish shape in the bowl and cut dough into 8-12 wedges.
Plop each triangle of dough onto baking sheet. Plop is the operative word – the
craggier and messier the better.
6. Bake for 12-15 minutes.
7. Devour.
Leo: biscuit sous-chef and official taste tester
Easter Cheese Pizza
Contributed by Giorgio Bonmassar
Makes 1
Ingredients
8 eggs
1 kg of flour
400 g of cheese
200 g of oil
100 g of brewer's yeast
25 g salt
Method
1. Knead all the food and put into rather tall molds.
2. Let rise for several hours (to see if it is ready to bake, press with a
finger: the mass should rise again).
3. Brush the surface with the egg.
4. Bake 200 degrees for 1 hour and more.
Enjoy hot, right out of the oven, with Italian cured meats and cheese!
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