Biscuits

Biscuits

Biscuits
All of the holidays requiring gifts and distant travels are over for the time being, and I'm back with a new recipe: biscuits.

I managed to convince myself that fresh out of the oven biscuits were only meant for people who were willing to mix up batches of floury doughy goodness before getting down to the business of cooking the main portion of the meal, or those with an impeccable sense of kitchen timing. Luckily for me, I recently discovered that I could freeze batches of pre-cut biscuits and just pull out one or two when I wanted. I'm still working on the "timing" part of it, unfortunately.

Like many of my grandmother's recipes, this is super simple. The hardest part of making these was trying to decide what size glass I should use to cut the biscuits out of the rolled dough. I ended up settling on some wide mouth shot glasses, which seemed cute at the time. In retrospect, I probably should have used my sweet Return of the Jedi glasses, since they have a slightly wider diameter, but now I know for future batches. I would recommend using something with about a 2 1/2" diameter.

Recipe!

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INGREDIENTS
2 Cups flour
3 Tsp baking powder
1 Tsp sugar
1/2 Tsp salt
4 Tbsp shortening
3/4 Cup milk

Pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees and lightly grease a baking sheet. Set aside.

Mix together the flour, baking soda, sugar and salt in a medium bowl.

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Add the shortening, and mix with a fork or pastry blender.

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Add the milk and stir until incorporated.

Lay out a cloth and sprinkle with flour. Dump the dough on to the cloth and knead it until smooth.

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Roll out the dough on a floured counter or table top.

Cut the biscuits out with a glass or round cookie cutter.

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Place biscuits on the greased sheet and bake for 12 minutes. I recommend brushing some melted butter on the tops of the biscuits just before tossing them in to the oven.

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Yum yum yum. My boyfriend and I ate these with some leftover soup for a lazy dinner, and I threw some unbaked ones in the freezer for later.

To freeze the raw biscuits, just arrange them in a single layer on a cookie sheet and pop them in the freezer for an hour or so. After that, you can pop them off and throw them in a ziplock bag in the freezer. I just thawed a few to go with a quick breakfast for dinner, and they still tasted good. Hooray!

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Comments

  1. your grandmother's recipe card is so sweet and I love when a recipe stays in the family for generations! Is your family from the south? mine is, and we love bicsuits down here and your biscuits look flaky and moist and perfect!

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  2. Thank you for the kind words about the biscuits! It's almost time for me to make another batch of them...

    My mom's family is from the South, but my dad's family are yankee's; these recipes are from my dad's mother. I know there are some recipe cards from the southern side of the family floating around at my parents house. Maybe I'll have to make something off of them sometime!

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