The biscuit dough is chilling in the fridge. It turns out that this is the perfect time of year to make biscuits, because you have to keep the butter and milk cold. Why? You want the tiny beads of butter to be suspended within the flour, not melted. If the milk and butter are soft, it will be a gluey mess.
The recipe is simplicity itself: 2 cups flour, 4 tsp. baking powder, 3/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 cup butter, and 1/3 to 1/2 cup milk. Sift the dry ingredients together, slice the cold butter and cut it into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter until the dough resembles tiny peas. Sprinkle the milk over while tossing with a fork. Gather up the dough in a ball, work it briefly with your hands and put in the fridge to chill. Roll the dough out about 1/2 inch thick, cut into rounds with a biscuit cutter or jar lid, place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 425 degrees F until golden brown. Makes 20.
They will be so good with the lamb gravy! I'm hoping to persuade my Denver Brokie friends to get together with me. I know Offline Chuck particularly likes biscuits and gravy.