Biscuits

I have a really good biscuit recipe from my mom. It uses shortening and powdered milk, things I have at home but not up in Duluth where I was making them. 

Chat gpt to the rescue! It gave me a conversion from powdered milk to regular milk (1:1, but start on the lower end and add a few T if dry) and a conversion from shortening to butter (also 1:1). 

To make the biscuits even more flaky and fluffy, chat gpt recommended folding the dough in thirds, rotating it 90 degrees, and folding it again (just like puff pastry!). I definitely felt like I was on the British Baking Show when I folded and flattened the dough. It didn't make as many as I thought it would. Maybe from the folding and flattening? 

Still, the biscuits turned out great. I used a pizza cutter to cut them into squares. The tweaked recipe suggested having the biscuits touch for a better rise, so that's what I did. 

The finished product: 

Look at that lamination! 🥳