Ingredients

• 2 Tb butter
• 8 oz breakfast sausage
• 4 strips bacon
• ½ C green onions, chopped
• ⅓ C all-purpose flour, packed
• salt and pepper, to taste
• cayenne, to taste
• 2½ C milk, more or less as needed

Biscuits

Ingredients

• 2 C all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 7 Tb unsalted butter, cut into thin slices, chilled in freezer
• ¾ C cold buttermilk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 425F (220F C).
2. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper.
3. Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda together in a large bowl.
4. Cut butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs, about 5 minutes.
5. Make a well in the center of butter and flour mixture. Pour in ¾ C buttermilk; stir until just combined.
6. Turn dough onto a floured work surface, pat together into a rectangle.
7. Fold the rectangle in thirds. Turn dough a half turn, gather any crumbs, and flatten back into a rectangle.
8. Repeat twice more, folding and pressing dough a total of three times.
9. Roll dough on a floured surface to about ½" thick.
10. Cut out 12 biscuits using a 2½" round biscuit cutter.
11. Transfer biscuits to the prepared baking sheet. Press an indent into the top of each biscuit with your thumb.
12. Brush the tops of biscuits with 2 Tb buttermilk.
13. Bake in the preheated oven until browned, about 15 minutes.