I love to start the day with fresh biscuits, and I just love them with blackberry butter. It's your jam and your butter all in one.
Servings: Makes 6–8 biscuits
Ingredients
Blackberry Butter:
  • 6 Tbsp. (3/4 stick) butter , softened
  • 2 Tbsp. blackberry jam
  • 1 tsp. finely grated lime zest
Biscuits:
  • 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour , plus more for kneading
  • 2/3 cup coarse-ground cornmeal
  • 1 Tbsp. sugar
  • 2 1/4 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 8 Tbsp. (1 stick) butter , chilled and cubed
  • 3/4 cup sour cream
Directions
Preheat the oven to 450°F. Lightly grease a baking sheet. To make the blackberry butter, stir together the softened butter, blackberry jam and lime zest. Refrigerate, covered, until needed.

To make the biscuits, in a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt to combine. With a pastry cutter or fork, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Mix in the sour cream and pull the dough together into a ball. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat it into a 3/4-inch-thick round. Using a 3-inch cutter, cut as many rounds as you can, then reroll the dough and cut out the remaining biscuits.

Transfer the biscuits to the baking sheet and bake until light brown, about 15 minutes. Serve the biscuits hot, accompanied by a good dollop of blackberry butter.

The Deen Family Cookbook © 2009 by Simon & Schuster

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