* Ingredients :
+Biscuits:
°2 c flour
°1 tb baking powder
°1 1/2 tsp salt
°3 tb sugar
°1 stick unsalted butter (VERY cold)
°3/4 cup buttermilk (use enough until the dough is just barely moist enough)
°1 ea. frozen blueberries
°1/2 stick of melted salted butter
+Sauce:
°1 ea. Granulated sugar
°3 tb milk (or more if not liquid enough)
°1/2 tsp. vanilla
*Directions:
Cutting butter into small pieces and place on a baking sheet lined with waxed paper. Put in the freezer for at least 10 minutes. Preparing cast iron skillet with a amount of bacon grease, if available. The simplest thing: fry a piece of bacon, wipe out the pan and you're ready to go! Preheat oven 500 degrees.
Mix the ingredients for the sauce (powdered sugar, milk, vanilla) and make sure the powdered sugar is completely dissolved.
Mixing all the dried ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt, sugar) then cut into the cold un-salted butter. Cutting in to the butter is about size of a pea, relatively well mixed. Adding buttermilk. Adding until you have just where the dough separates from sides of bowl. Stir until just combined and spread out on a well-floured surface.
Before kneading, prepare a large surface for kneading. (I use a large cutting board for easy cleanup!) Dust the area with flour. Put the dough on the floured area and sprinkle a little flour on the dough. Pressure down on dough and flatten to for 1/2″ thick. Put the blueberries on the dough. Knead several times and flatten to about 1″ thick. (Honestly, the thicker the better, because they rise so well!) The berries will probably start to bleed onto the batter and you'll start to see flecks of blue as the berries thaw.
Place the cookies in a cast iron skillet and make sure the cookies are touching.
Bake at 500 degrees for about 10-12 minutes. About 6 to 8 minutes, remove the pan from the oven and brush the cookies with melted salted butter. It is an integral part of the cooking process. And be liberal with this, brush the sides of the cookies if they are visible. When you start to see the tops slightly browning (and the blueberries popping), take them out. The temperature in the middle of the cookies will remain very hot when removed from the oven and will continue to bake.
Enjoy !
