Biscuits

I've been wanting to make biscuits for a while now. I had not ever attempted them from scratch. So it was time to do it! But wait. I didn't have shortening. Ahhh, but we have real butter in the house.

2 cups flour
3 teaspoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of sugar
1/2 cup of BUTTER(supposed to have been shortening)
3/4 cup of milk

Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.

Cut in the shortening/butter. The 2 knives technique was a beating, so I used a hand mixer to speed it along. It should look like fine crumbs when its mixed well.

Stir in the milk. The mixer is not a great idea for this part unless you have one that has about three horsepower. The dough is gonna be thick!

Kneed it TEN times the recipe said. I'm not sure how many times exactly I kneeded it, but it wasn't very long. As a helpful hint, coating your fingers with flour before kneeding is a good idea. :)

I rolled it out on flour covered parchment paper to a log that was about 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch thick. Cut into equal width pucks and put on a pan to bake.

15 minutes later at 450 and we had biscuits for breakfast!