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!

First you mix all the dry ingredients

Then add shortening

Then you “cut” the shortening in, using a pastry cutter, or two butter knives or a fork. You don’t want the shortening to mix into the dry ingredients, it needs to look like a bunch of flour and pea sized clumps of shortening.

If I am making this for breakfast I will mix everything up to this point the night before then cover it in plastic wrap and put it in the fridge. You don’t have to do this step and it will still be yummy!

Here we are the next morning just coming out of the fridge. (Yawn)

(I forgot to add the cinnamon the night before, I like to add cinnamon, I think I am discovering that cinnamon is my favorite spice)

add your egg

and milk, or buttermilk, or yogurt…..

Mix it all up until it is a crumbly mess. Don’t mix it up until it is all combined well, that is what makes it flakey and crispy

With your hands moosh it into a ball

Put it on your pan (or stone, I like useing a baking stone for this) and with your fingers spread it out to about a inch thick, using a pizza cutter make 8 wedges.

sprinkle it with cinnamon and sugar, or sugar, or chocolate chips, or colored sprinkles….whatever

Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes until it is golden crispy

I serve it with apple butter (this stuff is to die for! Thanks Katie for talking me through making my apple butter)

Yummy, yummy, yummy!!!!

This recipee is really easy to modify! If you want to use it for dinner don’t put any sugar in it and it is like a biscuit. Or (one of my favorite ways) you can add fruit. I like blueberries. When you add fruit double the sugar, and add frozen or fresh fruit when you add the wet ingredients. I like it with cinnamon and chopped apples. You could add chocolate chips or nuts too. Serve it with jam, apple sauce, cold milk, hot chocolate, diet coke, tea or coffee ( if that is what moves you).

(if I am serving this as breakfast I am learning that I need to double the recipe for my family of 7, or serve something with it, fresh fruit, scrambled eggs or sausage)