Fresh and Yeashty...: Week 4... Now with help!!!

(EDIT: This was written the same day as the last post, but due to some issues with blogger didn't get posted until now. Thank you.)

So, I guess I got back into it earlier than I thought I would be able to.

Andy and I decided that, since the baby was asleep, we would be able to make something that seemed fairly quick and easy.

My Sous Chef

So, we decided to go with some biscuits. Quick, easy, all that jazz.

BAKING POWDER BISCUIT.

Two pints of flour, butter the size of an egg, three heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one teaspoonful of salt; make a soft dough of sweet milk or water, knead as little as possible, cut out with the usual biscuit-cutter and bake in rather a quick oven.

So, the first thing we had to do was, of course, go and change something. We had a bunch of whole wheat flour, so we decided to use that instead of all-purpose.

So, we got everything all mixed up (I guess it was a soft dough, seemed pretty soft to me), rolled out and cut, and ready to go in the oven. Here is where we hit our first hiccup. We took a stab and figured that "rather a quick oven" would be somewhere around 400º. Why not? So, we got that set and put them in.

While they were baking (notice there is no time in the recipe -- you cook them til they are done) we took the rest of the dough and got it ready.

We admit, the M & M's weren't in the original recipe.

When we took them out, they looked much the same. They didn't grow at all, so they looked more like whole-wheat cookies. But, they did pass the true test.

They actually tasted really good. And, when we cooked the second batch, they actually got bigger. So, we got a tasty treat, and learned something for next time.

Anywho, that's about it for now. I leave you with some photos of the whole project.

Take it easy, all.