Southern Oil Biscuits

"So okay, come again"? "You said you don't like biscuits"? "Oh, your'e not crazy about biscuits"?, That's about to change right now. I mean, who doesn't love a warm, biscuit with that deliberate crunch of crust, and puff of soft dough? Especially if it is enveloping warm scrambled tofu, smooth cheesy sauce, and a perfect tomato slice to make the irresistible vegan mc- muffin? Okay, what I just said (actually, I didn't just say that. Okay, you got it, I wrote it. :)) sounds rather ignorant, and very biased; but that fact is totally besides the point! Isn't it? Enjoy!

2 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour

1/2 cup Whole Wheat Flour

4 1/2 teaspoons Aluminum-Free baking Powder

1 teaspoon Salt

1 1/4 cup Soy Milk

1 teaspoon Lemon Juice

1/3 cup Olive Oil

Preheat oven to 425F.

Stir together soy milk and lemon juice and set aside.

In a medium mixing bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, and salt.

Make a well in the flour and pour in the milk-lemon mix, and then the oil. Stir it all up to form a soft dough.

Turn the dough out onto a heavily floured surface and lightly knead to form a smooth, semi-firm dough. Knead 10 times is a (legendary) good rule of thumb.
Roll (I pat instead) out the dough approximately 1/2"-3/4" thick.

You may cut out the biscuits with a biscuit cutter, upside down glass, or knife, The principle behind this is to literally cut the dough to form a sharp edge that the dough recoils from before baking. After it goes into the oven, this edge allows the dough to rise, and expand far more than balls of dough were broken off and the biscuits were hand patted together.
Place the biscuits on an ungreased baking pan. If you like your biscuits crunchy all the way around, then leave plenty of space between them, otherwise, snuggle them up, so you can peel the crusty pillows away from each other.

Brushing the tops with some oil an option.

Bake the biscuits for 15-20 minutes. If after this time, for some common reason, your biscuit top are not as brown as you would like them to be, turn your broil on LO, and brown them to your hearts desire.

And as always, Enjoy!

Whole Wheat Bread in a Machine

  

Ingredients

*1 1/4 cup Warm water

*3 Tablespoons Olive oil

*3 Tablespoons Honey

*1 teaspoon Salt

*2 cups Bread Flour

*1 3/4 cup Whole wheat, Spelt, Kamut, oat, or any other flour

*2 1/2 - 3 teaspoons Active Dry Yeast

Kitchen Supplies

-Reliable bread maker

-Measuring Cup Set

Way to go...

Layer the ingredients in your bread machine in the order listed and set up your machine for the 2 lb. loaf setting. Set your crust color as you like, in our house we always set it on light because we never take the bread out right away and we have experienced too many tough crusted loafs to even bother with the medium or dark crust settings. So you have set your machine ( according to the recommended manufacturing guidelines yadayadayada...) , press go, and go away and do something fun, or go to work, or school, or church, and when you return you will have a beautiful loaf awaiting:)