Yesterday was a wonderful day! We spent the day picking cynthiana grapes in the vineyard and making grape jelly. Ellis, Alden, Meredith and I had a great time sitting on the porch at his parents’ house picking the grapes off of the stems with them. Alden is a pro at spotting the rotten ones! (And the spiders… Alden & Grandpa were having much more fun with the tiny spiders than with the grapes!)
After all of the hard work outside, we followed the directions for grape jelly on the package of sure gel. This morning we had to have homemade biscuits to devour all of our hard work!! Here’s my recipe (adjusted over the years down from my old 1 stick of butter version).
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 4 tbsp butter (I use unsalted)
- 3/4 cup lowfat buttermilk
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Cut in butter with a pastry cutter or 2 knives until it is the size of large peas.
- Add buttermilk and mix with your hands until it forms a small ball of dough.
- Place dough on floured countertop and press down with your hands until it is about 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick.
- Cut out biscuits. (Today we used the alphabet cutters instead of the traditional round biscuit cutter. )
- Place on cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes until the tops are golden brown.
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