I took this recipe to a bridal shower this past weekend to share. Somewhere between there and here it went missing. !!!! I was horrified when I realized that today and was utterly relieved when I found that I'd posted it previously on my old website. whew! But I thought I'd post it here now so that my recipes are all together.
source: Biscuits and Scones: 62 Recipes from Breakfast Biscuits to Homey Desserts, by Elizabeth Alston (Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publishers) page 15.
Ingredients:
1 cup coarse-ground yellow cornmeal
1 cup all-purpose flour --> [I use freshly ground wheat flour.]
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup maple or maple-flavor [gag!] syrup
milk
5 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut up
Directions:
Heat oven to 425 degrees. Put cornmeal, flour, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl. Stir to mix well.
Measure maple syrup in a glass cup measure. Add milk to the 2/3 cup mark.
Add butter to the flour mixture and cut in with a pastry blender or rub in with your fingers, until mixture looks like fine granules.
Add the milk mixture and stir with a fork until a very soft dough forms.
Drop 1/4 cupfuls of dough 2 inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 12 to 14 minutes, until pale golden brown. Cool, loosely covered with a dish towel, on a wire rack.
