Description
No-Frills, Down-Home Cloud-like biscuits
Ingredients
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Ingredients
- 3 cups sifted flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 tsp Baking Powder
- 2/3 cup crisco (room temperature)
- 1 cup whole milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
- In a large bowl whisk together the sifted flour, salt and baking powder. Cut in the crisco, using a pastry cutter, two forks or your hands until the flour mixture resembles cornmeal. Slowly pour in the milk and stir with a strong wooden spoon until the flour resembles a strong dough. Scrape the dough onto a floured work surface and sprinkle a tablespoon of flour onto to the top of the dough.
- Flatten the dough with your hands into a 8x10 rectangle with about a ½ inch in thickness. Flour the biscuit cutters and cut out the biscuits taking care to not twist the cutter. The motion should be swift and straight. Try to cut the biscuits as close together as possible, so that you have very little left over dough. Pat together the remaining dough, but don’t over handle because the dough will become tough.
- Place the biscuits on a cookie sheet about ½ inch apart. Bake for 13 minutes. Brush with melted butter and serve.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 13 minutes