Biscuits for Jam Buds

Who wouldn't want to share biscuits with their Jam Bud?

Here's how you can make some lovely biscuits that are designed to and complement jam (or whatever else you wanna put on them). The biscuits are a little dry and not too flavorful, but that's what you want if you don't want the biscuit to take center stage.

I invented this recipe and as written here it's vegan, but you can make it with regular butter and regular milk if desired. You can even mix in about 3/4 cup of cheese if you don't wanna jam, but we wanna jam, so it's this.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar

• 1/2 cup vegan butter

• 3/4 cup almond or soy milk

• Jam of your choice

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375° F / 190° C. Combine all the dry ingredients: flour, powder, soda, salt, sugar.

Mix them thoroughly, and then add the butter, cutting it into the dry ingredients with a fork or knife.

It looks like coarse meal when you're done.

Pour your milk substitute in and mix.

After you stir a bit, the mixture will get difficult to work with, so switch to working it in with clean hands until you get a nice, uniform, not-too-sticky dough.

Throw a portion of the dough onto a floured surface and get the rolling pin ready.

Here, you'll want to roll it out to about a quarter of an inch thick (0.6 cm).

THEN, fold the dough over once....

And press it with the rolling pin so it's half an inch (or a little less than 1.5 cm).

This fold can help the biscuits cook with a natural split.

Take out a circular biscuit cutter and cut rounds. Mine was 2 inches diameter. If you go smaller, your biscuits need to cook for less time. If you go bigger, they need to cook for more time.

See how the fold works?

Load the biscuits onto a lined baking sheet. They can be pretty close together because the dough really does not spread.

Re-roll your scraps until the tray is full. Then bake for 10 minutes.

Remove from heat and make sure they're cooked through. Let them cool on a wire rack.

When cool, put on a serving plate...

...and serve with jam!

My Jam Bud wasn't around. But I still had some!!

You can also serve these with spreads, honey, or butter!

Bonus: My recording of "The Jam Song" with a really bad out of practice violin part :persevere: 🤣