Yogurt Biscuits & Honey Cardamom Butter

 
I adore Biscuits, and by that I don't mean cookies, I mean North American style biscuits. Any soup or stew is immeasureably improved by the addition to the table of a nice basket of hot fresh biscuits.
 
The recipe I am sharing today for Yogurt Biscuits was adapted from the Book, "Southern Biscuits," by Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart. 
 
I was intrigued by the notion that you could make delicious biscuits with only flour, salt and yogurt.  I just had to try them for myself.
 
They were incredibly easy to put together. They are basically just salt, self rising flour and yogurt.  Do use full fat yogurt. I have it on the authority of Natalie that low fat yogurt does not work well. I believe her.
  
If you don't have self raising flour, you can make your own. (For every cup of flour, sift together 1 cup of flour, 1 tsp salt and 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder.)  It works a charm. 
 
Soft butter goes very well with hot biscuits and if you are serving biscuits on their own, why not make it a flavoured butter. Today I made Honey Cardamom Butter. Honey and Cardamom have a natural affinity for each other . . .
 
An affinity almost as strong as the one for biscuits and any butter!  Look at the height of these biscuits.
 
That's what you get when you use a very light touch and you don't twist the cutter when you are cutting.
 
I used a 3 inch cutter, patting my dough out to 1-inch thickness. I got 8 lovely big biscuits.
 
If you use a 2 inch cutter you will get more obviously.
 
These, however, were perfect just as they are  . . .
 
Tall and light, with a nice flaky crumb . . .
  
In short  . . .  biscuit perfection.
  

Yogurt Biscuits & Honey Cardamom Butter

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With ImageWithout ImageYield: 6 - 8 (3-inch) biscuits)
Author: Marie Raynerprep time: 15 Mcook time: 15 Mtotal time: 30 MMake sure you use full fat yogurt for these deliciously light and fluffy biscuits. If your yogurt is especially thick you can thin it with a bit of milk.  These are fabulously tall, crisp on the outsides, tender inside,  and go perfectly with the honey butter!

Ingredients:

For the Honey Cardamom Butter:

• 1/2 cup butter at room temperature (120g)
• 2 TBS honey
• 1 1/2 TBS icing sugar
• 1/2 tsp ground cardamom

For the Biscuits:

• 2 1/4 cups of self raising flour (315g)
• 1 tsp salt
• 245g full fat yogurt
• softened butter for brushing (optional)

Instructions:

1. To make the honey cardamom butter, beat all of the ingredients together in a bowl until evenly mixed. Scrape into a serving bowl. Cover and chill until needed.
2. Preheat the oven to 225*C/450*F/ gas mark 7.  Line a baking tray with baking paper.
3. Measure (280g) 2 cups of the the flour into a bowl along with the salt and make a well in the center. Add two thirds of the yogurt into the well, reserving the rest along with the remaining  (35g)1/4 cup of flour. Use a spatula to mix the flour and yogurt together just until he mixture comes together and the dry ingredients are moisened and a sticky dough begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl. If you think the dough is too dry, add the remaining yogurt. If your dough is too wet, use more flour when shaping.
4. Lightly sprinkle a board with some of the reserved flour. Turn the dough out and using floured hands, fold the dough in half and pat out to a 1/2-inch thick round using only as much flour as is needed. Flour again and repeat, patting the dough out to 1/2 inch thick for a normal biscuit, and 1 inch thick for a tall biscuit. (I like them tall.)
5. Using a floured 3-inch cutter stamp out 8 biscuits. Take care not to twist the cutter or your biscuits will be lopsided. Try to get as many cuts as you can from the first cutting. Gather, pat out and recut the scraps.  (These will be tougher which is why you want to get as many as you can from the first patting out.)
6. Transfer all the biscuits to the lined baking tray.
7. Bake the biscuits on the top rack of the oven for 6 minutes. Rotate the baking pan, back to front and then bake for a further 4 to 8 minutes until well risen and golden brown.
8. Brush the tops with softened butter if desired. Serve warm with the Honey Cardamom Butter.

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