Biscuits Supreme Recipes

Steps:

• Sift dry ingredients into bowl (or cheat and just stir together). Cut in shortening with a fork til crumbly. Add milk all at once. Stir quickly with fork and dump out onto lightly floured surface. Knead gently 10 strokes. Roll or pat dough ½ inch thick. Dip a small drinking glass into flour and cut out biscuits. Dip into flour between biscuits to prevent sticky mess. Place on ungreased baking sheet close together. (cover pan in foil first if you don't want to wash it. Makes about 12. Bake at 450 for 10 to 12 minutes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Sift dry ingredients into mixing bowl.
• Measure shortening and cut into flour mixture with pastry blender, two knives or blending fork, until mixture looks like "meal."
• Stir in almost all the milk.
• If dough does not seem pliable, add the remaining milk using just enough to make a soft, puffy dough easy to roll out.
• Knead quickly on a lightly floured board (too much handling makes tough biscuits).
• Roll out 1/4-inch thick for thin crusty biscuits and 1/2-inch thick for thick biscuits.
• Place on ungreased cookie sheet; close together for biscuits with soft sides, an inch apart for biscuits with crusty sides.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes.

Steps:

• To make sour milk, add 1 tbs lemon juice or vinegar to 1 cup of milk and let stand for 5 minute.
• Preheat oven to 450.
• Mix all dry ingredients in a large bowl.
• Cut butter into flour mix until it looks like small peas.
• Add milk and mix until until dough sticks together and forms a ball.
• Knead 6-8 times on floured surface.
• Roll dough flat until it is about a 1/2" thick and cut with a floured biscuit cutter.
• Place on ungreased sheet pan and bake 10-15 minutes, or until golden.

Steps:

• Cream together shortening, salt and sugar. Add dry ingredients. Mix with milk and slightly beaten egg. Mix with pastry blender until the dough sticks together.
• Place on floured surface. Pat down with hands until 1/2 inch thick.Cut with.
• round cutter. On cookie sheet place the biscuits close together for softer biscuits and 3/4 inch apart for crustier biscuits. Cook at 450 degrees for.
• 10 to 12 minutes. Makes 16 medium biscuits.

Steps:

• Place oven rack in the top third of the oven. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• Add shortening and cut in with pastry blender until the mixture is mealy.
• Gradually add buttermilk, stirring with a wooden spoon just until the dough is soft and slightly sticky. Do not over mix!
• Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface. Using a light touch, turn the edges toward the middle, pressing with your hands. Press the dough out 1/2 inch thick and cut straight down with a 2-inch biscuit cutter. Pat the scraps together and cut out more rounds.
• Arrange on a baking sheet no more than 1/2 inch apart and bake until lightly browned, 12 to 15 minutes.