Baking & Pastry - Day 2

Oh, WOW!  I love this class... probably because I love to bake as well as cook!  The pace of this class is much different from the others.... a little bit slower which is good!  Tonight we made biscuits, muffins and banana bread... Ya know, I have made biscuits a lot.... but this biscuit is by far, the best I have ever made.. like I said before, it's the folding method that causes the layers of flakiness..... it is SO good.... here is the recipe... it's all in pounds and ounces, not cups.... a little bit different than what I am used to!!!

1 lb 4 oz bread flour
1 lb 4 oz pastry flour
.75 oz salt
2 oz sugar
2.5 oz baking powder
14 oz butter
1 lb. 10 oz. milk

Sift together all the dry ingredients.   Put in a large bowl... cut in the butter and mix with your hands until the mixture resembles a coarse cornmeal... Add milk just until a soft dough is formed. Do not over mix.  Put the dough on the table, work into a rectangle, adding flour as necessary.   Form into a rectangle.  Fold in half, flatten out, rotate 90 degrees, flatten out again, then fold in half.  Repeat this about 6 times, incorporating flour as needed. The dough should be soft and slightly elastic but not sticky.  Dough should be almost an inch thick before cutting...  Cut into biscuits.  Put biscuits on a parchment lined baking sheet.  Make sure they all touch each other...Bake at 400 for about 15-20 minutes.