Amazing Buttermilk Biscuits

• 2 cups flour

• 4 tsps baking powder

• ½ tsp salt

• 2 tsp sugar

• ½ tsp cream of tartar

• ¼ tsp baking soda

• ½ cup butter, cold and cut into ½ inch cubes

• 3/4 cup buttermilk, more if needed and for glazing

Preheat oven to 400º.  Combine dry ingredients.  Add butter and cut into dry ingredients with a pastry cutter or a fork.  Cut butter until it resembles small peas.  Using a fork, stir in buttermilk.  Add more if needed.  Dough should be moist but not sticky.  Turn dough out on to a floured work surface.  Press dough into a 1" thickness.  Cut into 3" disks with a biscuit cutter.  Place biscuits on a baking sheet.  Reform scrap dough and cut more biscuits.  Brush biscuit tops with buttermilk before baking.  Bake for 12 minutes until golden brown.

Makes about 8 biscuits.