Biscuits

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This recipe is so good! All the ingredients can come off your pantry shelf which makes for a perfect food storage recipe. With a total time of 30 minutes from start to finish it makes for a quick side bread to any meal. Best of all it is yummy, flakey, buttery, biscuity goodness!

Here is our cast of characters:
4 cups flour
2 Tablespoons Baking Powder
2 teaspoons salt
2/3 cup shortening
1 1/3 cup milk, or buttermilk or yogurt
(simple huh!)

To the flour you add all your dry ingredients. You can also use wheat flour if you want to, but I think the white makes a lighter biscuit, and anyway, this isn’t a healthy, fat free type of item, why mess with that and use whole wheat?

Stir the dry ingredients together with a fork

Then add the shortening.

Cut in the shortening with a pastry blender. If you don’t have one (I don’t, I really, really, want one, but I can’t find on anywhere. If any of you happen to see one, pick it up fo me, I will pay you back) Or if you don’t have one (me, me) use two butter knives.


You want the shortening to blend in, but do not mix it in well, I need to be in little clumps. That is what makes it flakey.

Add your milk, (powder milk if you are using food storage) or buttermilk, or yogurt. If you don’t have buttermilk on hand and would like the flavor of a “buttermilk buscuit” Add 1 Tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice to the milk before you add it.

Stir it all up with a fork and dump it out onto a lightly floured work surface.

Taking care not to mix in the shortening too much; with your hands moosh (is that a word? moosh) it into a ball

Roll it out until you get it to your desired thickness. I like it to be about 2 inches thick, the thicker the dough, the thicker your biscuit

Now cut out your buscuit. If you would like to be a fun mom/wife/girlfriend/person, use fun cookie cutters.

If you don’t care and just want to get the job done, use a cup, like Punk #1 is doing.

Stick them all on a cookie sheet that has been lightly sprayed with cooking spray, or greased with shortening. You can put the biscuits really close together, they won’t spread out, they will raise up.

Bake at 425 degrees for 10 t0 15 minutes, until golden brown.

Now doesn’t that look yummy. Wonderful, flakey, down-home goodness.

Drizzel with honey, jam, apple butter……..and sink your teeth into warm biscuit heaven.

If I am doing this recipe for breakfast (it is yummy with eggs and sausage and if I really want to throw caution to the wind, I will even make gravy, but only sometimes, well, I think I have only done that once…) I will mix everything but the milk the night before and stick it in the fridge.

In a couple of days I will post the recipe for homemake pancakes, they are as quick and easy as buying a mix and much better for you!

7 thoughts on “Biscuits”

  1. My hubby LOVES biscuits. Maybe I’ll have to be a good wife and make some. (It won’t happen today mind you,lol but I’ll have to remember sometime in the near future.)

  2. Yum! That is all I can say is Yum! I am ready for breakfast and was trying to think about what to make. I am alone for breakfast this morning so I think I’ll eat yogurt, but maybe Saturday I’ll do this for me and Big Daddy!

  5. You are simply amazing! When do you have all this time- gardening, cooking, cleaning! You rock girl! Keep it up!

    Jen Carpenter

  6. Oooh those look good! I have a good recipe I’ve always used but they NEVER turn out flaky like that! Yum!

  7. YUM! You can get an awesome pastry blender from The Pampered Chef…one of the secretaries at school sells it, and could hook you up! I’ve had mine for about 8 years, and love it! And it’s machine washable!