Grandma's Baking Powder Biscuits recipe

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Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons white sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup vegetable shortening
1 egg
⅔ cup milk

Nutrition Info

173.3 calories
carbohydrate: 19.1 g
cholesterol: 16.6 mg
fat: 9.4 g
fiber: 0.6 g
protein: 3.1 g
saturatedFat: 2.5 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 271.3 mg
sugar: 2.8 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat an oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).

  2. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, cream of tartar, and salt into a bowl. Use a pastry cutter to chop vegetable shortening into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. 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. Drop dough by spoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet.

  3. Bake in the preheated oven until biscuits have risen and are golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes.

Recipe Yield

1 dozen biscuits

Recipe Note

This is my grandmother's biscuit recipe. It is my all-time favorite and has a really good flavor to it. Be sure not to roll out too thin, you want high biscuits! I usually just pat out the dough to the desired thickness, usually 1/2 inch.

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