Fluffy Buttermilk Biscuits

Ingredients

2 cups good quality flour (Montana Wheat, Lily, King Arthur)

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon sugar

8 tablespoons cold butter

1 cup buttermilk

¼ tsp baking soda for buttermilk

2 tablespoons melted butter

1 tablespoons milk

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Mix together flour, baking powder, salt, sugar.

Cut 6tbls of the butter into flour with fingers.

Put the flour and butter mixture into freezer for 15 minutes.

Add baking soda to the buttermilk.

Take flour mixture out of freezer, grate 2 tbls of frozen butter into the mixture

Add in buttermilk,  mix with hands. Mixture will be very wet.

Lightly flour the counter.

Flour hands and pat dough down to an inch and a half thickness.

Using a biscuit cutter, cut biscuits with up and down method. Do not twist! If you do not have a biscuit cutter, do not use a glass or cup or bowl as, these will seal the edges and your biscuits will not rise.  Use a knife and resign yourself to square biscuits.

Place on baking sheet, touching. Brush with milk.

Bake for 8 minutes. Turn over gently back another 5-7 min. All ovens are different.

Brush with butter when they come out of oven.