Vice President-elect JD Vance took some time away from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and from his exhaustive efforts to prepare to take office to save our nation and to share a treasured family tradition with his family.
Vance, joined by the “world’s best three-year-old sous chef,” daughter Mirabel, made a batch of biscuits just like Mamaw taught him.
“Today, we are going to learn to make biscuits because I feel like biscuit-making is a lost art. And I think that every American family should have a biscuit on their table during Christmas dinner.”
“Mirabel here is going to help me. She is always my sous chef. We’re going to start with two cups of flour. My great-grandmother, Mamaw Bland, taught me the trick to a good biscuit is frozen butter. We have a frozen stick of butter here that I’m actually going to grate with a cheese grater. Two scoops of sugar into the flour.”
We have the rest of our dry ingredients here, so we’re going to need about three teaspoons, which is equivalent to one tablespoon of baking powder. Also a teaspoon of salt. Mommy and Ann are watching from behind the camera here, and they think this is hysterical.”
“All right, so we’ve got our graded butter here. I’m going to throw that in. Just get in here and take a really good chunk of the butter. Just break it in a little bit. You can see this, the biscuit has this consistency of corn milk here, which is really what you’re looking for. In different environments, you need more or less moisture. But this I’m just going to use about two-thirds of a cup of buttermilk. You want that, Mirabel? There you go. You want biscuit dough to just come together. If you over mix it, then your biscuit is going to be tough, and you don’t want that. You want a biscuit that falls apart. We’re going to get some parchment paper. Roll this bad boy out.”
“Look at this. See, we need our biscuits. We’re going to cut this and then fold it back on top of itself. And we’re going to do this four times, and that’s what’s going to get our biscuits kind of a layer.”
“When we put our biscuits on the pan, one way to ensure they keep their shape, but also, they have a nice color, is to do an egg wash. We got four here, and these two got a lot of dough left. What I try to do, is just smush the dough back. It’s really perfect. You try to use as much of your dough as possible here. Put these on the pan, you’ll expand a fair amount of dough Nice and fair amount. So I’m going to give them some space like so. Now, Mirabel, can you paint these?
“And this is what the biscuits look like all arrayed on the pan there. Nice and solid, evenly spaced. I’ve got the oven at 425. We’re going to pop these bad boys in the oven for about, call it 16, 17 minutes until they’re golden brown on the top. We will check back in when they’re done.”
JD was joined by sons and Ewan and Vivek for the big reveal.
“Here are our biscuits. Like I said, the first ones we cut are a lot better looking. These are the ones that we cut first, and these are the ones we cut second.”
“We’re about ready to open presents. Can we all say, Merry Christmas?”
“Merry Christmas.”
Watch:
Baking some Vance family biscuits with the world’s best three-year-old sous chef. Merry Christmas everyone! pic.twitter.com/j5agMYJXGV
— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 25, 2024
