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Re: Yeast and soda/powder in biscuits

"L. Hansen" <lobo119@bresnan.net>
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:05:14 -0600
v111.n027.2
My aunt and mom, wonderful bakers both, used to question letting 
anything with baking powder and/or soda (and I don't recall which) 
sit too long.  However, since you say the biscuits are wonderful, why 
mess with them?  Just MHO.

Lobo

>From: Suzanne Lander <zusana@gmail.com>
>
>I have a biscuit recipe from my mom that I grew up with. It's 
>wonderful and yeasty! I've recently been considering using wild 
>yeast instead of the dry yeast the recipe calls for and that's made 
>me look at the recipe more closely all around. It calls for mixing 
>everything up together: flour, salt, soda, powder and sugar, 
>blooming then adding the yeast and then adding oil and buttermilk to 
>the dry ingredients before refrigerating overnight. The next morning 
>you portion it out and bake it all off.