HOW TO USE SOUR CREAM RECIPES

Steps:

• In a bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, sugar, and salt.
• Add the sour milk and mix to combine with a wooden spoon. This should make a sticky dough that is not overly wet.
• Transfer the dough to a lightly floured work surface and shape into a circular loaf using your hands.
• Place this loaf in an oven-safe skillet that has been greased thoroughly with butter. Using a sharp knife, score the top of the loaf about 1 inch deep. The traditional scoring pattern is a cross.
• Place in an oven that has been preheated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. It will need to bake for around 40 minutes. We suggest allowing the loaf to cool for an hour when removed from the oven, before serving.
• If you choose to make the bread using whole-meal wheat flour it will make a slightly soured brown loaf. Traditionally soda bread is made with white flour.

Steps:

• In medium-sized bowl, whisk first 4 ingredients til well mixed.
• Add sour cream in spoonfuls on top, add oil and mix til all is just moistened with a spoon. Switch to using your hands turning the dough to get all the last of the dry stuff on the bottom of the bowl. Knead 8 times on floured surface.
• Roll thick to only about an 8" circle. Just a few passes with your (floured) rolling pin. Cut out 6 biscuits with a biscuit cutter or a floured glass. Get 2 more out of the last of the dough. (Bunch it back together, knead it just a bit, pat or roll it and cut.) Pitch any last little tidbit if any left. I place mine on my old round metal pizza pan covered with foil and sprayed with butter-flavored Pam. But a cookie sheet will work just fine.
• Place little pats of butter on top, or spread it a little if the butter is VERY soft and doesn't deflate the biscuits while doing so. Bake in hot, preheated 425 oven for 12-15 minutes (ovens vary) or til golden brown on top. Remove from oven and butter tops again with other half of butter. Serve warm with more butter and homemade jam or honey. Makes 8 tall sour cream biscuits.