This is the best homemade biscuit recipe ever. Serve this one with my Cabbage Soup or use in the Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings Recipe.
I found this recipe in an Easter basket full of recipes in a (now closed) Indiana antique shop.
Steps 1 – 3 are clipped from somewhere with handwritten notes: “These are good. Best biscuits ever” is penned across the top of it. They are right!
Best Homemade Biscuits Recipe Ever
Best Homemade Biscuits Recipe Ever
I agree!
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Flour
- 4 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 2 teaspoons Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
- 1/2 cup Shortening
- 2/3 Cup Milk
Instructions
- 450* Oven.
- Combine dry ingredients.
- Cut in 1/2 cup Shortening with a pastry blender. It will have coarse crumbs.
- Add in 2/3 cup Milk.
- I use the pastry blender to combine it all together.
- Dough is soft and easy to work with.
- Turn out onto lightly floured surface (I use a cutting board) and knead a few times.
- Roll out to 1/2" to 1" thick.
- Cut into Biscuits.
- Bake 450* for 10-12 minutes.
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