Avoidant Biscuit

Maybe. Scallion biscuits with goat cheese and cheddar will help you tune out the feeling that your life, like Mercury, is once again in retrograde.

Avoidant Biscuit

AP Flour 300 g

BP 19g

Salt 8g

Butter, cold and cubed 120 g
Buttermilk 140 g

Milk 120 g

Cheese of choice 130 g

It’s Wednesday and your state of overwhelm is increasingly dire. Life feels like an endless deluge of things to worry about: a hellish inbox, a disgruntled friend, disastrous headlines. You’re having trouble figuring out how to cope constructively. Biscuits are your ticket to redemption.
Combine your dry ingredients in a stand mixer and beat the butter into the dough.
When pea-sized shards remain but the dough holds well in your quivering fist, mix in the milks, cheese, and herbs.
The dough must now rest for an hour. In this moment of distraction-less calm, succumb to the noise. There’s that gnawing sense that Mercury is always in retrograde. The fear that you’re so lazy and godless that you’ll never bother to learn what retrograde actually means.
It's quiet again as you roll out the dough and make a three-way fold. As soon as it’s back in the fridge, your needling self-doubt saunters in, the realization you haven’t called your grandmother in weeks, the anxiety bellyache of late. Again, your dough beckons.
Two folds this time before it rests. Stare at the dough, while you begin to realize that the pain you feel is actually a Scorpio-esque envy. A wish that you, too, could be a savory biscuit. This placid, this lovingly tended-to—this well-rested
and blissfully oblivious.
Retreat to your bed and avoid the pastry.
Resign yourself to not finishing the recipe, another obligation to neglect, then regret.

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