{"id":2687,"date":"2014-02-14T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2014-02-14T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T15:58:31","slug":"baking-powder-biscuits-james-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/14\/baking-powder-biscuits-james-beard\/","title":{"rendered":"Baking Powder Biscuits, James Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beard-baking-powder-istock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beard-baking-powder-istock-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"beard-baking-powder-istock\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beard-baking-powder-istock-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beard-baking-powder-istock.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2 cups sifted all-purpose flour<br \/>\n1 tablespoon double-acting baking powder<br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon salt<br \/>\n1\/4 cup (1\/2 stick) butter<br \/>\n3\/4 cup milk<br \/>\nAdditional melted butter for dipping<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 450\u00baF.<\/p>\n<p>Add baking powder and salt to the sifted flour, and sift again into a mixing bowl. Work in the butter with your fingers (or two knives or a heavy fork) until it is the consistency of cornmeal. Add milk and stir into the dough just enough to make the particles cling together. (It should be a very, very soft dough.) Turn onto a floured surface and knead for about 1 minute. Then either pat or roll out to a 3\/4-inch thickness.<br \/>\nCut out the biscuits into rounds or squares, according to your taste. Dip each in the melted butter and arrange on an ungreased cookie sheet or pan. If you want them crisp all around, place them far apart; for fluffier biscuits, place close together. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the tops are golden. Yield 12 to 18 biscuits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon double-acting baking powder 1\/2 teaspoon salt 1\/4 cup (1\/2 stick) butter 3\/4 cup milk Additional melted butter for dipping Preheat oven to 450\u00baF. Add baking powder and salt to the sifted flour, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/14\/baking-powder-biscuits-james-beard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[524],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biscuits","tag-sides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}