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American style biscuits and how to make monkey bread out of them! :)
Bring a little Americana into your kitchen, the biscuit emerged as a distinct food type in the early 19th century, before the American Civil War. African American cooks created a quick, easy and cheap to produce addition for their meals that required no yeast

Posted by Claira • Published 20th February 2011 • See Claira 's 10 projects »

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Kaiulani W. favorited American Style Biscuits And Monkey Bread 10 Jul 01:27

Step 1
What you will need for the biscuits, for the English out there I used strong bread flour and plain and it worked just fine :)
Step 2
Add all dry ingredients to your mixer..
both flours
salt
baking soda
baking powder

blend for a few seconds to combine.
Step 3
Add butter and shortening (suet) blend until it looks like sand
Step 4
Then add your buttermilk until the mixture comes together into a soft ball of dough.
So that is your basic American style biscuit dough, you can just cut it into small rounds and have plain biscuits but I am going to make monkey bread with mine! As follows......
Step 5
Pre heat oven to 175oc
Grease a pan, I didn't have a regular bundt tin so used this one which worked fine.
Step 6
Add 1 cup of white or brown sugar plus a teaspoon of cinnamon to a bag, toss in your cut up pieces of biscuits and shake until they are well covered.
Step 7
Once covered take the out of the bag and place in tin.
Step 8
In a small saucepan melt 1/2cup of butter with 1 cup of brown sugar, add a little vanilla to taste.
Save a little back of this mixture to drizzle over when cooked.
Step 9
Pour the mixture over the biscuits and cook for 30-35 minutes
Step 10
When cooked drizzle of the remaining butter/sugar mixture, I also added Pecan nuts, it is Monkey bread after all! Enjoy warm with your monkey :)