Baking Powder Biscuits

Basic Recipe

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1965

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Ingredients

  • 2 c. sifted flour
  • 3 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp.

Method

  • Sift flour, baking powder and salt into bowl. Cut in shortening with pastry blender or two knives until mixture resembles cornmeal.
  • Make a well in center of flour mixture and pour in ½ c. milk. Mix lightly and quickly with fork. Add more milk, just enough to make dough moist enough to leave the sides of the bowl and to cling to the fork in a ball. Turn on a light