Old Fashioned Biscuits
You can easily make these light and fluffy biscuits to accompany any meal, even if you are short on time.
Equipment
- 2½ inch biscuit cutter
- Large cast iron pan
- Pastry cutter
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 2½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ⅓ cup shortening
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 tbsp butter, melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 475°. Grease cast iron pan.
- In a medium mixing bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt. Use scoop and sweep method to measure flour.
- Using a pastry cutter, cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Make a well in the center and pour in all the milk.
- Using a fork, stir together the ingredients just until the dough starts to come together and begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl. Dough will be sticky.
- Turn dough out of the bowl onto a lightly floured surface.
- With floured hands, lightly knead the dough for about 30 seconds, until nearly smooth.
- Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out the dough to ¾ inch thickness.
- Cut dough with a 2 ½ inch biscuit cutter. Dip the cutter in flour, in between cutting each biscuit. Press down but do not twist biscuit cutter.
- Place biscuits close together, but not touching in a lightly greased cast iron pan.
- Brush tops with melted butter.
- Bake in a 475° oven for 11-15 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown.
- Serve warm with butter.