Harriet's Southern Biscuits
Ingredients
- 1 cup + 1 tbs all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 2 tbs Crisco
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 tbs Crisco for frying pan
Instructions
Equipment
- cast iron frying pan, very hot,, oiled
Steps
- Mix the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
- Blend in the Crisco until the mixture is coarse and grainy.
- Harriet uses a fork, but I have better luck with a pastry blender.
- Then, using a fork, stir in the buttermilk
- Do not over-mix.
- Put on a floured board or marble pastry board and knead just a few times.
- Pat out the dough to about 1/2 inch thick.
- Cut with a biscuit cutter or a glass. (Flour the cutter).
- Do Not Handle the dough too much or it will get tough.
- Use a heavy black iron frying pan. Place to 1 tbs of Cisco in the frying pan and put the frying pan in the over for about 7 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the oven and place the biscuits in the pan.
- Turn each over in the oil and back the biscuits at 500* for 10 minutes, or until light brown
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