This popular soda is chef's surprising biscuit ingredient: 'Family favorite'

When cook Melissa Martin of Louisiana makes biscuits, she includes an unexpected ingredient: 7-Up soda. 

"This recipe astir apt came from the broadside of a container but has go a household favorite," Martin says successful her caller cookbook, "Bayou: Feasting Through the Seasons of a Cajun Life."

While the archetypal look called for a pre-made baking mix, Martin adapted the look successful her cookbook "to debar nutrient additives whose names you can't pronounce." 

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These biscuits are champion served warm, she said, but "are bully the adjacent time warmed up successful the toaster, too." 

Additionally, these biscuits tin beryllium made with immoderate benignant of fat, including butter, lard "or Crisco, if you must," she said.

Melissa Martin of Louisiana shared her family's "7-Up Biscuit" look with Fox News Digital. She's the writer of a caller cookbook, "Bayou: Feasting Through the Seasons of a Cajun Life." (Todd Cole)

It is besides highly important that these biscuits are baked soon aft the dough comes together, Martin said. 

"Move the biscuits rapidly to the baking pan and past to the oven," she said.

7-Up Biscuits look by Melissa Martin

Makes 12 ample biscuits

Ingredients

2 ounces acold unsalted butter, chopped into tiny pieces

3¼ cups all-purpose flour, positive much for dusting

1 tablespoonful baking powder

1 tablespoonful earthy sugar

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2 teaspoons kosher salt

2 ounces lard oregon unsalted butter, chilled

1 cupful 7-Up

¾ cupful dense cream

Butter and preserves, for serving

Melissa Martin's biscuits person an unexpected ingredient: 7-Up soda.  (Artisan Books; Getty Images )

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. If your oven runs hot, spell for 375 degrees to 400 degrees.

2. Place the food successful a 9-inch quadrate baking cookware and acceptable successful the oven truthful the food melts. Set a timer for 3 to 5 minutes truthful you don't forget. Remove erstwhile it has melted.

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3. In a ample bowl, whisk unneurotic the flour, baking powder, sweetener and salt. (You tin sift these together, but it's not necessary.) Add the acold abdominous (not the melted butter) and chopped it successful with your fingers until it resembles coarse, pebbly meal.

4. Make a good successful the halfway of the substance and adhd the 7-Up and cream. Mix unneurotic with a fork conscionable until the dough comes together. The substance volition beryllium precise sticky. 

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5. Turn the dough retired onto a clean, lightly floured aboveground and signifier it into a craggy rectangle with the abbreviated ends astatine near and right. Fold the near broadside of the rectangle implicit to conscionable the close side, past fold the close broadside implicit to conscionable the left. Press the dough (no request to rotation it) into a unsmooth 8- by 13-inch rectangle astir 1-inch thick.

These biscuits are champion served lukewarm oregon tin beryllium heated up the adjacent time successful a toaster, said cookbook writer Martin.  (Artisan Books)

6. Using a floured crisp weapon oregon seat scraper, chopped the rectangle into 4 adjacent parts, flouring the weapon each clip you marque a cut. Divide each portion into 3 biscuits to output 12 biscuits. Place the biscuits snugly successful the cookware with the melted butter.

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7. Bake instantly for 20 minutes, rotating the cookware aft 10 minutes. The biscuits are done erstwhile the tops are aureate brownish and their interior somesthesia registers 200 degrees Fahrenheit connected an instant-read thermometer. 

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8. Remove from the oven, spot a cleanable room towel implicit the dish, and fto the biscuits remainder for 5 minutes. Serve lukewarm with food and preserves.

This look is owned by Melissa Martin and was shared with Fox News Digital.