Good fluffy biscuits
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups | Flour |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | teaspoon | Sugar |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| 1 | tablespoon | Baking powder |
| 5 | tablespoons | Shortening (1/2 shortening (solid) & 1/2 butter) |
| 1 | cup | Buttermilk |
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees(F). Sift dry ingredients. Then cut in butter with pastry blender or use your hands. Make a well in the middle, pour in buttermilk, and using a fork lightly mix until flour is moistened thoroughly. On floured surface, knead 3 times. Pat dough out until ½ inch thick or thicker if you like. Cut into rounds with an inverted drinking glass or a biscuit cutter. Set biscuits into a greased pan so that their edges touch. Bake 12-15 minutes at 450 degrees.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 25 Sep 96 From: The Overstreets <billover@...> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:59:35 -0700