Drop Baking Powder Biscuits Recipes

Steps:

• Sift Flour Salt and Baking Powder into mixing bowl.
• Cut in shortening until the particles are fine.
• Add milk all at once and stir just until dough clings together and flour disappears.
• Drop by spoonfulls into greased muffin cups (2/3 full).
• Bake 450 deg for 12/15 min.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.
• In a bowl mix the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut in the shortening until the mixture has only pea sized lumps. Add milk and mix until dry mixture is absorbed. Drop dough by heaping spoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Place the flour, baking powder and salt into a food processor and pulse a few times to combine. Add the butter and pulse until the dry ingredients and the butter are mostly combined. (Alternatively, cut the butter into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter.) Drizzle in the milk and pulse (or stir) just until the dough comes together. Do not over mix.
• Using a regular table spoon, or large spoon, drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto baking trays and bake until nice golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. If desired, brush with melted butter after you remove them from the oven.

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 475 degrees.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt in large bowl. Combine buttermilk and 1/4 cup melted butter in medium bowl, stirring until butter forms small clumps.
• Add buttermilk mixture to dry ingredients and stir with rubber spatula until just incorporated and batter pulls away from sides of bowl.
• Using greased 1/4-cup dry measure, scoop a scant amount of batter and drop onto parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet. Repeat with remaining batter, spacing biscuits about 1 1/2 inches apart.
• Bake until tops are golden brown and crisp, 8 - 12 minutes. They can be made up ahead of time and gently re-heated in a 300 oven for 10 minutes.
• Brush biscuit tops with 1 tablespoon melted butter. Transfer to wire rack and let cool 5 minutes before serving.
• Test if baking powder is fresh: Mix 2 teaspoons of the baking powder into a cup of water. If there is an immediate reaction of foaming and fizzing, the baking powder is okay to use. If the reaction is at all delayed or weak, throw it away and buy a fresh can.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease two 8-inch cake pans.
• Put the flour, salt, baking powder, and sugar in a bowl.
• Cut in the shortening until mixture resembles coarse meal.
• Add the milk all at once and stir just until the dough forms a ball around the fork.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured board and knead 14 times.
• Pat until 1/2-inch thick.
• Cut into rounds with a 2-inch cookie cutter.
• Place, touching each other, in the cake pans and bake for 15-20 minutes.
• CRUSTY BISCUITS.
• Roll biscuits to 1/4-inch thick and place 1-inch apart in pan.
• Bake in a 450 degree oven for 12 minutes.
• Yields almost double the biscuits.
• BUTTERMILK BISCUITS.
• Use 2/3 cup buttermilk instead of sweet milk, 1/2 teaspoons baking soda and only 2 teaspoons baking powder.
• CHEESE BISCUITS.
• Add 1/2 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese to dry ingredients.
• DROP BISCUITS.
• Add additional 1/3 cup milk and use a baking sheet.

Steps:

• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Blend the shortening into the flour using fingers or a tool for cutting in butter.
• When uniform crumbly consistency, make a well in the center. Pour all the milk in at once and then stir just until blended. Don't stir any longer or the biscuits will be tough.
• Drop by large spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet or into greased muffin tins.
• Bake 10-15 minutes at 450 degrees.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450,.
• Sift dry ingredients into bowl, cut in shortening (or substitute) until it resembles coarse crumbs.
• Make a well; add milk all at once and stir quickly with fork just until dough follows fork around bowl and all ingredients are combined.
• Grease baking sheet, drop dough by rounded tablespoons or teaspoons onto baking sheet.
• Optional: Sprinkle tops of biscuits with parmesan and garlic powder or garlic salt before baking.
• Bake 12-15 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°. In a large bowl, combine the first 5 ingredients. Cut in shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. In a small bowl, whisk milk and egg. Stir into crumb mixture just until moistened. , Drop by 1/4 cupfuls 2 in. apart onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake until golden brown, 10-12 minutes. Serve warm.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Mix dry ingredients.
• Cut in shortening until small like peas.
• Stir in milk until elastic.
• Drop by spoonfuls onto chicken gravy.
• Bake 20-25 minutes until biscuits are puffed up and browned.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425º.
• Combine all dry ingredients.
• Blend in the warm butter.
• Slowly add the milk to the mixture until the dough holds together.
• Use two spoons to drop evenly sized biscuits on ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until lightly browned.
• if using a baking sheet let them stand for about 2-5 minutes to help hold.
• or try a muffin pan.