Food From Pern!

For the last year, Eliyah and I have been reading aloud the series "The Dragons of Pern" by Anne McCaffrey.  I've made the popular hot drink described in the first book and referred to throughout the series  as Klah  by infusing decaffeinated  tea bags with oil of cinnamon, then making the tea in a drip coffee maker..  Eliyah liked it.  I love it and may become addicted to it  Then he found a recipe on Facebook that he wanted us to try using biscuit dough stuffed with red sauce, Italian cheese and Peperoni.  We had made other meatrolls but these were the best by far.  Eliyah and Bill disappeared a whole pile of them in record time.  Recipe follows:


Dough:                                                                                   

2 cups Self-rising flour                                             
1/2 teaspoon baking soda                                          1/2 cup red sauce, any brand
3/4 cup buttermilk                                                  
1/4 cup olive oil
Preheat the oven to 425.
Mix the soda with the flour in a bowl and the butter milk with the olive oil in a cup.  Pour the liquid into the flour and stir just until it forms a ball in the bowl.  Flour a dough board or the counter and set the dough in the midst of the flour (use plenty) and gently pat out  into a circle about 10 inches across.  Fold into thirds and pat out again.  Repeat a time or two, just until the dough seems smooth.  If it begins to shrink back, stop immediately, it's getting tough.  Now roll the dough out into a big circle, 12 or 14 inches across and cut into rounds with a jar lid, about 3 inches across.  Flatten each round.   Place a slice of peperoni in the center of each, a teaspoon of red sauce, a cube of mozzarella cheese and another slice of peperoni.  Gather the edges together and pinch into a ball.  Bake at 425 degrees for about 12 minutes, or just until tanning and brown on the bottom.  Serve hot or cold.
We served a salad and hot klah with ours.  Lovely!