Buttermilk Biscuits

You know what a strange word to look at is? Biscuits. What an unusual word to stare at for a long time.

Anyway.

I have buttermilk left over from the German Chocolate Cake I made for my husbands birthday.
What shall I do with my leftover buttermilk?
I would make fried chicken, but the chicken has been allocated to other projects this week.

That leaves me with biscuits.
I love biscuits in all their various shapes, sizes and forms.
But the best is always the first and that's southern buttermilk biscuits.
Swimming in cream gravy.
Dripping with butter and honey.
Steamy, hot and soft.

Yes, yes, yes.

And here's my recipe.

2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter (I like mine fresh out of the freezer)
2 tablespoons shortening
1 cup buttermilk, chilled

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Crumb the fat into the flour mixture until you're left with little pebbles. Pour in your buttermilk, stirring until the dough just comes together.
Turn the sticky dough onto a floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold it over a few times, creating those tempting layers we all love. Roll, or hand mash the dough to an inch thick round. Using your 2-inch cookie/biscuit cutter or a glass of equal size, cut out as many biscuits on the first go that you can. I like to place my biscuits on the sheet so that they are just touching, but if you like harder sides leave them an inch apart. Mash the scraps back together, working it as little as possible and cut another round. The biscuits will get a little more tough each time you have to use the overworked scraps, so try to cut as many as possible each time.
Lightly press your thumb down in the center of each biscuit.
Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.

(With my airbake pans [which I use religiously] I can get away with 10 minutes.)

I haven't mastered sausage gravy yet, perhaps someone out there has a recipe they might like to offer up?