Biscuits For 2

Biscuits For 2

Mary, over at One Perfect Bite late posted a recipe for "Biscuits for two". What a dandy sentiment for unmarried people, for modest families in addition to empty-nesters alike. I can't say y'all how many biscuits I've thrown away because they got stale earlier nosotros could consume them all, but non anymore!! This recipe is excellent; give thank y'all you Mary!!

This quick in addition to tardily recipe

makes 4 delicious biscuits.

1 loving cup all run flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar

1/4 loving cup shortening (I used COLD butter)

1/2 loving cup 2% milk

Preheat oven to 450° (I baked mine at 400°) in addition to grease a baking sheet.

Mix the dry out ingredients together, hence cutting inwards the shortening (or mutual coldness butter) until it looks similar coarse crumbs.

Add milk in addition to stir only until everything is moistened. Turn out onto a lightly floured counter in addition to knead 8-10 times. Dough mightiness seem a niggling viscid at first, but it volition come upwards together nicely later on y'all knead it a few times.

Pat or curlicue dough to 1/2" thickness in addition to cutting amongst floured 2 1/2" biscuit cutter (the floured rim of a drinking drinking glass volition piece of job too).

Bake 10-12 minutes (I baked mine a few minutes longer because I reduced the oestrus to 400°.

I brushed mine amongst butter when they were hot out of the oven. Makes 4 biscuits.