Recipe: Peach Biscuits

Peaches are in season here in PA and what better way to make use of abundant stone fruit than to bake yummy things like Peach Biscuits.  These are essentially like scones, but I took a page from one of my favorite brunch spots, Morning Glory, and baked my biscuits in a pan.  That way there was no need to roll them out and get flour everywhere.

Ingredients

2 Cups Flour

4 Teaspoons Baking Powder

3/4 Teaspoon Salt

1/3 Cup Sugar

6 Tablespoons Butter (I used vegan butter)

1 Cup Mike (I used Soy Milk)

1 Egg

1 Cup Fresh Chopped Peaches

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Combine flour, baking soda, salt and sugar in a bowl and mix well. 

In another bowl beat egg and milk together, set aside. 

Using a pastry mixer or a fork cut butter into the dry ingredients.  Much like pie crust you will want to keep your butter chilled until you are ready to use it.  Using cold butter will keep your biscuits flaky. 

One the butter is well combined at the milk and egg mixture and the peaches.  

Mix till the dry and wet ingredients are well combined.  Your dough will be a bit lumpy.  

Spread your dough into a greased baking pan and place in oven at 375 for about 15-20 minuets.  The edges and top of your biscuits should be a golden color.  

Let biscuits cool for a few minuets.  Cut into squares and enjoy.

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Raspberry Scones

Looking for a sweet treat for the holiday.  Here is my Raspberry scone recipe, make a batch for your sweet heart, or for yourself.  These are best straight out of the oven with butter or jam.  Because I substitute the dairy for vegan butter and soy milk mine are vegan, but you can use regular milk and butter.

Ingredients
2 Cups Flour
1 Tbls Baking Powder
1 Teas Salt
1/4 Cup Sugar
1/3 Cup Butter (I use vegan butter)
1 Cup Milk (I use unsweetened soy milk)
1 Teas Vanilla
1/2 Cup Raspberries

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  In a Mixing bowl combine flower, baking powder, salt and sugar.

2 Next add butter, using a pastry mixer or a fork, cut the butter into the dry ingredients  .  Be careful to not let the butter melt or over mix.  The dry ingredients should look lumpy and grainy, like this:

All those lumps are butter.

3. Next add the milk and the vanilla and stir.  You want a thick dough to form.

4. Add the berries and stir to combine, I like to smush some of the berries as I stir them in.

5.  using lots of flower and being careful to not handle the dough to much, flatten the dough out on a well floured surface and either cut into triangles, use a biscuit cutter or a cookie cutter to form scones. 

6. Place scones on a cookie sheet, bruch with milk and sprinkle with sugar, this will help them brown up and give them a sparkly sheen.  Bake for 15-20 Minuets till golden on the edges.