My first time recording with a baby went better than expected – probably because Flynn randomly decided to accommodate me with a nap (he doesn’t believe in them much these days). Well. A short one. Which was all I needed. I did better at picking a simple recipe this month, though it was not an especially clear one. Then again, few of these recipes are, which is the point, after all. I’m also apparently in the mood for making recipes with the word souffle in them…or “soufle” as it is spelled in today’s recipe. Don’t forget to check out the accompanying Instagram reel!
Soufle Biscuits
The Virginia Housewife
1824
Step One: Rub four ounces of butter into a quart of flour. Okay, straightforward enough, though I cut it in half since four cups of flour seemed a lot.
Step Two: Make it into a paste with milk and knead it well. Less clear. But I decided that by paste, she meant dough, since it is hard to knead paste.
Step Three: Roll it as thin as paper. Crystal clear. But definitely sketchy…I rolled it as thin as pretty thick paper.
Step Four: Bake it to look white. And this is where I got lost. Um. Okay. What temperature? How long? Should I cut it into biscuits or leave it as a sheet of paper-like dough? To look white??? What does that even mean??
I opted for 400 degrees, because it is a bread dough, and left it as one piece, since her other recipes specify if I am supposed to cut dough into squares. I left it in for ten minutes. And pulled it out with some golden brown spots, so kind of failed at the “look white” situation. But considering it looked white before I put in the oven in the first place, I don’t know what to tell you.
Step Five: I pulled it out, and cut it into squares (more or less) – let’s see what my husband thinks!
Verdict:
Surprisingly good! I would never think of it as a biscuit…Daniel pointed out it was more like a pie crust, but with milk instead of water, and it could definitely use some salt, but all in all, definitely not among the worst things I’ve made, though I’d still like to know what it’s purpose was and if I actually made it properly…
How would you have interpreted the recipe?
Forest Idylls 