Southern Grandma's Baking Powder Biscuits
"Uses cream of tartar and egg."
Original is 12 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (66.5 g)
- Calories 191.5
- Total Fat - 11.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 4 g
- Cholesterol - 81.6 mg
- Sodium - 261.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 17.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.1 g
- Sugars - 2.9 g
- Protein - 5.6 g
- Calcium - 146.9 mg
- Iron - 1.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat an oven to 450 degrees F.
Step 2
Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, cream of tartar, and salt into a bowl.
Step 3
Use a pastry cutter (or fork) to cut vegetable shortening into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs.
Step 4
Whisk egg and milk together in a separate bowl and slowly add milk mixture to flour mixture, stirring as you pour, until dough is moistened and well-mixed.
Step 5
Drop dough by spoonfulls onto an ungreased baking sheet.
Step 6
Or:
Step 7
Knead 5 times on floured board.
Step 8
Roll out to 1/2 inch thick.
Step 9
Cut.
Step 10
Bake on ungreased cookie sheet.
Step 11
Bake in the preheated oven until biscuits have risen and are golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes.
Tips
No special items needed.
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