Because I made biscuits again, and I wish to share my genius. And my mother’s recipe. Because they’re good biscuits. Now, I always double the recipe, but then I’ve never had a problem baking these. Ever.

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup shortening (warmed, room temp preferable)
3/4 cup milk.

1. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
2. cut in the shortening. And for God’s sakes, use an ACTUAL dough blender. You could use a fork I suppose, but I cannot be responsible for what happens from your ill-advised course of action. You’ll want to do this for about 5 minutes. A coarse look to the flour is what you’re looking for, and if you cut it for about 5 minutes, blending it all in, you should have it no problem.
3. Pour in the milk
4. Mix the concoction with a fork, until it starts clumping together, and you can’t do much anymore.
5. Coat your hands with some flour, and knead the dough. Do this until it has roughly the texture of play dough.
6. Roll it out using a rolling pin, to about 1/4 to a 1/2 of an inch thick.
7. using a glass, cut circles in your dough.
8. put as many as will fit on a cooking pan.

9. bake at 400F for about 15 minutes. The biscuits will be pale, you could probably use a stick of frozen butter and rub it on the top of the biscuits and cook them for about a minute more to get them more goldenfied. But I don’t do that.
10. enjoy your biscuits.

I’d preheat the oven to about 400 and then while its heating up, do all of the steps. There are, I think, two key steps in making your biscuits turn out fantastic: CUT THE SHORTENING IN REAL WELL, mixing it in will keep the flour from getting too hard when baked. And Roll out the dough. That will keep things uniform, so that you’re not baking the edges to a crisp to get the middles done.

Now. Follow my steps TO THE LETTER. and then email me and let me know how the biscuits turned out. Send pictures if you want. I’ll post them and any comments.

BISCUIT CHALLENGE…..GOOOOOOO!!!!