Black Pepper Biscuits with Orange-Blueberry Marmalade

Name: Black Pepper Biscuits with Orange-Blueberry Marmalade
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 teaspoons baking powder; 0 teaspoons baking soda; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper, not super fine and not coarse, somewhere in between; 473 milliliters fresh blueberries; 1 teaspoons butter or margarine; 355 milliliters cold buttermilk; 946 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 liters prepared fruit, about 6 medium oranges and 4 lemons; 2 pouches fruit pectin; 118 milliliters heavy cream; 237 milliliters honey; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 liters sugar, measured into separate bowl plus 1/4 cup, divided; 12 Tbsps cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces, plus 4 tablespoons, melted; 355 milliliters water

Black Pepper Biscuits with Orange-Blueberry Marmalade might be just the hor d'oeuvre you are searching for. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 648 calories, 5g of protein, and 13g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 16. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 40 minutes. If you have blueberries, salt, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

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For the jam: Using a vegetable peeler remove the zest of the oranges and lemons.

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Vegetable

Orange

Lemon

Jam

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Peeler

Cut the zest pieces into thin slices, then finely chop or grind and set aside. Peel and discard remaining white part of the peel from fruit. Chop fruit pulp, reserving any juice and set aside.

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Fruit

Juice

Place the peels, water and baking soda in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

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Baking Soda

Water

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Sauce Pan

Add the reserved fruit and juice and cover. Simmer an additional 10 minutes. Stir the 6 cups sugar into the prepared fruit in the saucepan.

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Fruit

Juice

Sugar

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Sauce Pan

Add the butter to reduce foaming. Bring mixture to a full rolling boil on high heat stirring constantly. Stir in pectin. Return to a boil and boil exactly 1 minute, stirring constantly. Stir in pectin.

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Butter

Pectin

Remove from heat and skim off any foam with metal spoon. Toss the blueberries with honey.

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Blueberries

Honey

Place into a small saucepan and cook over medium heat for 1 minute. Scoop out blueberries and add to marmalade. Reduce liquid to a syrup and stir into the finished marmalade.

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Blueberries

Marmalade

Syrup

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Sauce Pan

Serve at room temperature.

For the biscuits: Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.

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Biscuits

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Oven

Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Using a dough cutter, combine until ingredients are incorporated. Scatter the cold butter pieces over the top of the flour mixture and continue to combine until the mixture resembles coarse meal.

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Baking Soda

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Pastry Cutter

Bowl

Add the buttermilk and pulse until the mixture just begins to come together. Scrape the dough onto a lightly flour counter. Pat the dough into a 10 by 12-inch rectangle about 3/4-inch thick. Use a 3-inch round cutter to cut out biscuits. Press together the scraps of dough, and repeat process.

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Buttermilk