Light and Flaky Biscuits

               2 cups flour
               1 tablespoon sugar
               5 teaspoons baking powder
               1/4 teaspoon baking soda
               1 1/2 teaspoons salt
               1/2 cup butter, frozen
               3/4 cup buttermilk, very cold

               Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
               Grate butter and return to freezer.
               In a bowl sift flour, sugar and baking and salt.
               powder. Add butter to bowl, using your
               hands squeeze butter into flour. Add milk
               and fold together, dough will be crumbly.
               On a floured surface press dough together
               into a rectangle 1/2 inch thick. Cut dough
               into 3 equal pieces, stack on top of each other.
               Repeat the pressing, cutting, and stack process
               then press the dough to 3/4 inch high. Cut
               dough with a biscuit cutter and place on a
               parchment covered sheet pan. Bake for
               11-13 minutes, rotate pan half way through.


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