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Old Fashion Baking Powder Biscuits

2 cups all purpose flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 to 1 cup milk

Heat oven to 450F. In a bowl combine flour, salt and baking powder. With a fork cut
in shortening until you get a coarse meal. Add milk; stir with fork until mixture leaves
sides of bowl and forms a soft moist dough. On a floured surface toss until no longer
sticky. Roll out 1/2" thick, cut with 2" cutter. Place on ungreased baking pan
and bake 12 mins or until golden brown.  Butters

Note; For buttermilk biscuits, add 1/2 tsp baking soda to flour and substitute buttermilk for milk.
For cheese biscuits add 4 oz Cheddar cheese to flour shortening mixture and bake on greased pan.
For soft side biscuits; place in 9" pan with sides touching.
For thin crispy biscuits roll 1/4 inch thick and cut 3". Make sure biscuits don't touch.
For Southern biscuits reduce shortening to 1/4 cup.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently.

- Bhagavad Gita