Homemade Biscuits

There is nothing like fresh from the oven homemade biscuits.  Especially when topped with real butter and some homemade jam or peach butter.  Years ago when I was still a working mama I used to buy those pillsbury pop open cans of biscuits thinking I was rounding out a meal but they have nothing on some quick homemade biscuits and if you read the ingredients on them like I finally did...maybe like me you will think twice about eating those.

So many people are intimidated by homemade breads and biscuits but they are really not hard at all and once you get the hang of it you can whip them up in under 10 minutes.  But they will go fast!!!

Here is my go-to recipe:

Baking Powder Biscuits:
1/2 cup shortening (butter, crisco, or lard)
2 cups flour
1 T sugar
1T baking powder
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup milk

bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes

First I put all ingredients except for the milk into a bowl.  Then I use a pastry cutter (see below) to mix the dry ingredients with the shortening until I get fine crumbles.

see my crumbles?

I forgot to take a picture of adding the milk but that is the next step.  Your dough should be soft but not too sticky, sprinkle a bit more flour on the biscuits before pressing out if dough is too sticky.

Now here is where you gauge your time, if I am in a super big hurry I just make drop biscuits as below...you litterally just drop them like cookie dough

Honestly though a few extra minutes and my family likes them better this way.  I smoosh (is that a word?) the biscuits out and then cut them with a small glass or cup.

Ready to bake:

Here is the pure delicious-ness!!!  We gobbled these up and at this point I am making a double batch for my family as one batch is only about 10 biscuits and we like seconds!