Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of cold whole milk
• 1 egg
• 2 cup of flour
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp ground sage
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 3/4 cup chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425F degrees.

Whisk egg and milk together in a small bowl until well combined.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, sage, pepper and butter pieces.

Blend ingredients using your fingers into pea-sized lumps.

Pour in the milk and egg mixture and stir until moist clumps form.

Flour your hands and knead the dough about 6 times or until it holds together.

Roll the dough out to ½ inch thickness on a floured cutting board.

Flour a round cutter and cut out 12 biscuits.

Arrange the biscuits on a lightly greased baking sheet.

Bake 10 minutes until golden brown.

Makes 12 biscuits.