Let's Make Biscuits.

[Deborah]

I made biscuits once. Just once. I got big beautiful biscuits. And hard as a rock. Sigh...

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gerardo

Those look beautiful.

Thanks I'm now down to my last two.

Originally Posted by Deborah

I made biscuits once. Just once. I got big beautiful biscuits. And hard as a rock. Sigh...

So did I more than once, but I learned to figure out what I was doing wrong.
It sounds to me like you didn't have the oven turned up high enough and they just dried out before they got brown.

Double acting baking powder has two types of leavening agents in it.
One activates with moisture and the other with heat.
You cant fool around making this stuff and yesterday by stopping just the set things up and take pictures almost ruined them.
When you mix the fluid in with the dry stuff it should start to fluff up expand and get light.
That is the first one activating.
This is why you dont over work it.
If you have not over worked it and waited too long when you put them in the oven then the heat activated leavening agent takes over and you get fluffy biscuits.

I highly suggest that for people trying to learn is to make cathead or drop biscuits first.

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