Buttermilk Biscuits and Brown Sugar Bacon

Best Buttermilk Biscuits

2 1/4 cups flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1tsp salt
1/2 cup frozen butter
1 1/4 cups buttermilk
additional flour as needed
2 Tbsp melted butter

Preheat oven to 450.
Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Grate butter over mixture on large holes of box grater.
Using your hands, combine thoroughly, tossing flour and butter and rubbing together with your hands.
When combined, add buttermilk and stir until moistened.
Remove dough to floured counter and knead 3 or 4 times, adding additional flour as needed. With floured hands, press dough into 3/4 inch rectangle. Sprinkle additional flour on top of the dough. Fold over onto itself in three layers (fold it like a letter). Repeat this pressing/folding process three times. (This creates layers in your biscuit.) Then press dough into 1/2 inch thickness and cut into biscuit shapes (or nine squares from your rectangle.) Place on lightly greased baking sheet and bake 13-15 minutes, until lightly browned. Brush with melted butter.

Brown Sugar Bacon

Heat oven to 375.

Put some brown sugar in a bag. Add a bit of ground pepper. Place bacon in the bag and coat it with the sugar mixture.

Place bacon on a rack on a foil covered cookie sheet and bake 15-25 minutes (depending on the thickness of your bacon and how you like it cooked--we cooked thick sliced bacon 25 min.)

Served with: Fried eggs, milk, fruit