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Nana’s Pimento Cheese and Ham Biscuits from Kelli's Kitchen

Ham Biscuits

The most important thing I can tell you is treat this dough like it is pie crust dough……everything cold! The second most important thing is that you should handle the dough as little as possible.
Course Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword Biscuits, bread, cheese, ham
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Resting Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 Cup Cake flour
  • 2 tsp. Baking powder
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 Stick frozen butter
  • 1 Cup Buttermilk very cold
  • 1 Cups minced cooked ham but cold

Instructions

  1. Mix together flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
  2. Using box grater, grate butter – or put dry ingredients and ¼ inch pats of all butter into food processor and pulse until incorporated.
  3. Set bowl back into fridge for at least 30 minutes.
  4. Take bowl out of fridge and stir in buttermilk and ham but just until mixed. Don’t overwork.
  5. Dump bowl on very lightly floured board and pat into a square.
  6. Using a sharp knife (I used a pizza cutteand cut into 12 biscuits.
  7. Place in an iron skillet or baking pan with biscuit sides barely touching.
  8. Set in a pre-heated 450F oven and bake 10 – 12 minutes or until golden brown.

Recipe Notes

Then you can allow them to cool and spread liberally with pimento cheese. Enjoy!