Biscuits, Old Fashion Southern Recipe
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Ingredients: 2 1/2 C White Lily self-rising flour
1/4 C Crisco, lard or butter
3/4 - 1 C real buttermilk
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Directions:Preheat oven to 475 degrees.
Sift flour and then cut shortening into flour until crumbly. Make a well in center of flour mixture and slowly add buttermilk, stirring just until mixture comes together and forms a ball. Turn dough out on lightly floured board. Push together and knead a couple of times to make a smooth ball. Pat dough out into a circle 3/4 inch thick. Cut with a 2 to 3 inch biscuit cutter dipping cutter into flour between cuts. Press biscuit cutter straight down. Do not twist. Place biscuits on a sightly greased pan touching each other. Black skillets are great for cooking biscuits.
Bake for 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven and brush with melted butter.
DROP BISCUITS: Use 1 - 1 1/4 C of buttermilk to make a thick dough but not too wet. Use a large cookie scoop or drop by tablespoons on pan. Brush with melted butter or bacon grease after baking.
CINNAMON RAISIN BISCUITS: Combine 1/2 cup raisins, 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon, and 1/3 cup chopped pecans(optional) and add to flour in a large bowl. Proceed with recipe as directed above.
BLUEBERRY BISCUITS: Make biscuits as directed above. Roll out to 1/2 inch and sprinkle blueberries on half of dough. Fold over the other half of dough. Press down and cut with biscuit cutter dipped in flour. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar before baking.
See index for glaze for Cinnamon or Blueberry biscuits.
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Notes: So simple! This is the recipe for real southern biscuits. We had either biscuits or cornbread everyday. I still have and use my Mother biscuits cutters. I can see her standing at the kitchen counter making biscuits with her hands and then rolling out on a tea towel. Sometimes she would make "stickies" (see index for recipe) from the left over dough if she made a big batch. She also would just pat the dough in a pan, score it, put bacon grease on it and then bake. We called this a "hoe cake"! I remember eating the biscuits hot out of the oven with butter and jelly. Daddy would always eat his with molasses and butter.
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