Basic Biscuits
3 1/4 cups Cake flour 1 teaspoon Salt 1 tablespoon Sugar 4 teaspoons Baking powder 4 tablespoons butter or margarine or vegetable shortening 1 Egg -- lightly beaten 1 cup Milk 2 ta...
Ingredients
- 31/4 cups cake flour
- 1teaspoonsalt
- 1tablespoonsugar
- 4teaspoons baking powder
- 4tablespoons butter or margarine
- 1cupmilk
- 2tablespoons milk
Directions
- 1
3 1/4 cups Cake flour 1 teaspoon Salt 1 tablespoon Sugar 4 teaspoons Baking powder 4 tablespoons butter or margarine or vegetable shortening
- 2
Separately mix the egg with the milk,and stir all but 2 tbs.of this liquid into the dry mixture.Mix just enough to make a uniformly moistene
- 3
Dust a clean work surface with 1/2 the remaing flour,and turn the dough out onto the floured surface
- 4
Sprinkle the top with the rest of the flour,and with floured hands,gently push the dough into a circle about 1/2" thick
- 5
Cut with a 2" or 3" biscuit cutter,and place the cut buscuits close together on a greased corn meal coated cookie sheet.You will get about 1
- 6
Brush the tops of the buscuits with the reserved milk egg mixture
- 7
Bake in the preheated oven until puffed and brown,about 15 minutes
- 8
Cool for a few minutes before serving