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Kentucky Biscuits
"I got this recipe from a small free recipe book from KFC "
photo by Vera C.
- Ready In:
- 23mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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9 biscuits
- Serves:
- 9
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups unsifted flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2⁄3 cup milk
- 1⁄3 cup vegetable shortening
directions
- Preheat oven to 425. Sift into mixing bowl flour, salt, sugar and baking powder.
- Make a nest in the flour mix and add milk.
- Add shortening and begin kneading with hands (to cut in) the vegetable shortening and flour in the milk until thoroughly mixed.
- Add milk - if needed - to form, and mix.
- Turn onto floured board, and knead gently 6 to 8 times.
- Pat dough to 1/2" thickness.
- Cut into biscuits.
- Place on baking sheet and brown in oven 10-13 minutes.
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Reviews
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I didn't know biscuits could be so easy to make. I get best results using butter instead of shortening. I make this often. Great recipe! -
Excellent biscuits. Have to admit, I used a pastry cutter-I didn't want the mess on my hands. Very sticky dough, ended up adding at least 1/2 cup more flour on the board and got sticky hands anyway. It was worth it. -
This is the best biscuit recipe I've ever made! They came out very light and fluffy and rose beautifully in the oven. Any biscuit recipe I usually try leaves me with flat biscuits. I really liked the method of mixing the milk and shortening in at the same time; it cut prep time and kept the shortening from melting as I cut it in. Next time I make these, I will use Splenda instead of sugar (we are diabetics). I will update my review for that change. -
Oh, these are VERY nice and easy traditional-tasting biscuits! I made a batch for creamed turkey over biscuits and they were just great. The next time I will double the recipe to get a total yield of 14-15 biscuits and I think I'll cut back on the salt just a tad to one teaspoon per batch. Other than that, my wife and I found this recipe to be perfect. Thanks so much for posting it! pat, the old bone man -
Love it, just finished baking. Tripled the batch, no tweaks, no adjustments. Perfect as is!. I'm eating the biscuits as I'm typing ??.
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Tweaks
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Did this once. They were really great. Next time I used this as a base for a total "sweet treat" to use up something I don't have in the house usually - Hazelnut creamer! Sub milk for creamer. Add about a half cup of very finely chopped walnuts and about 1/8 cup of mixed peel (I had made this for hot cross buns on Easter). I say about because I eyeballed it. They are total treats and lovely with both tea and coffee. I mean, no makes these because they're healthy! *wink, wink*
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I didn't know biscuits could be so easy to make. I get best results using butter instead of shortening. I make this often. Great recipe!
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Great recipe! I made these tonight-doubled the recipe and replaced 1/3 of the flour with Wheat Flour. Now, there is only one left...and its mine : ) This is by far the easiest biscuit recipe I have tried. I thought the order of the recipe was odd (not adding the wet last) but it turned out better than the old standard recipe. -
Thank you for sharing this fabulous recipe. My daughter helped and used large cookie cutters instead of biscuit cutter and we had the greatest teddy bear, star and choo choo train biscuits! Tons of fun and yum yum!
