Community Pick
Homemade Biscuits

photo by Jonathan Melendez





- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 2 cups flour, sifted
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon table salt
- 3 -4 tablespoons shortening
- 2⁄3 - 3⁄4 cup milk
directions
- Sift flour with baking powder and salt.
- Cut in shortening till mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Add milk all at once and mix till mixture follows fork around bowl.
- Turn out on lightly floured board.
- Knead gently for about 1/2 minute.
- Roll or pat 1/2 inch thick.
- Flour rim of glass or biscuit cutter and cut out biscuits.
- Put on (ungreased) cookie sheet and bake at 450° for 12 to 15 minutes.
Reviews
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I have never made biscuits before.....heck, I have a hard enough time making JIFFY corn muffins....LOL. I recently purchased some sausage patties and wanted to have sausage and gravy over biscuits, so I said let me give it a shot. I followed the recipe and instead of using shortening, I used 4 tbsp of margarine per cup of flour. When adding the milk, I made sure that the batter was pretty wet. I kneeded the dough with my hands, not using a rolling pin, (as what alot of other recipes required) careful not to over knead. I baked until a toothpick came out clean and I must say that these biscuits taste like they were southern made. "Thank You" for this recipe, cant wait to go through the website and see what else there is.....)(
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I have finally found the perfect biscuits! I also didn't have any shortening in the kitchen so I used butter instead and tried buttermilk in place of milk. They came out excellent! There aren't enough words in the English language to describe how good they are! Even my husband is impressed and he's even more picky than those Iron Chef and Iron Chef America judges!!!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Darlene Summers
Carterville, Illinos
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