These biscuits are a nice change from the standard buttermilk biscuit. They're flavorful and great as a side to breakfast or topped with pesto and tomatoes for lunch.
Before getting started, make sure your butter and buttermilk are super cold. I like to cut my butter into pieces and measure my buttermilk and place both in the freezer while I measure the dry ingredients.
Preheat oven to 400F
In a large bowl combine flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
With a pastry cutter, cut in the butter, working until the butter chunks are pea sized.
Drizzle in the honey and buttermilk with a spatula until a dough starts to form. Knead dough by hand a little until the dough starts to take shape. It will be crumbly, but that's okay. Don't overwork it or the butter will melt.
Turn out dough out onto a cutting board or countertop and pat into a one inch thick square. With a bench scraper, cut the dough into four sections.
Flour your work surface, then stack the dough pieces. Roll or pat dough into a one inch thick rectangle. Using the bench scraper, cut the dough into 8 square biscuits.
Line a sheet pan with parchment and evenly space the biscuits on top. Freeze for 15 minutes.
When ready to bake, brush the cornmeal biscuits with melted butter, then bake 20-25 minutes.
Notes
If you don't have a pastry cutter you can freeze butter and shred it with a coarse grater. Toss butter with flour mixture and process to the next step.