We love breakfast food around here. Biscuits are a particular favorite. We love having them with butter and jam, or honey butter, or cheese sauce and strawberry jam, or sausage gravy, or even dipped in butter and cinnamon sugar before cooking. As you can see biscuits are extremely versatile. Here’s our favorite, tried and true recipe.
Baking Powder Biscuits
2 c. flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 TBSP sugar
1/2 c. shortening (we do half butter, half shortening)
2/3 c. milk
1 egg
Preheat oven to 425. Mix flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together thoroughly. Cut shortening in with pastry blender. Make sure there are no pieces of butter bigger than a pea. Beat egg and add it and milk to the mixture. Carefully mix together to wet all the dry ingredients. DO NOT OVER MIX! Turn out on floured surface. Knead a couple of times if necessary. Pat out to 1 inch thick. Cut out with biscuit cutter. Place biscuits in the middle of a lightly greased pan right next to each other. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until light golden brown.
*** Tips***
The less you handle the dough the better. Makes for flakier more tender biscuits.
We’ve also used butter flavored shortening with much success.
Before baking dip each biscuit in melted butter then cinnamon sugar for a nice breakfast treat.
If you increase the sugar in the recipe to 3 TBSP. you can use the biscuits for individual strawberry shortcakes.
I have to say that looks more like a scone to me!! Being British and all!! 😉
We also love biscuits with cheese mixed into the batter. Then we melt butter…oh goodness not on any diet I know of LOL.
Cool. I needed a new biscuit recipe to try. Can’t wait to give it a try. Never thought about cocoa.
I don’t thinkI’ve ever made bisquits with egg in them. This intrigues me and gives me a great excuse for making them tonight. 😉
I agree with Sam, that looks more like a scone to me! 😉 Yummy!
Mmmm…I’ll have to keep this one in mind- I usually cheat and buy bisquick- but I don’t ever love how they turn out.
I love biscuits, too! They are a comfort food from my childhood, which love I’ve passed on to my children. My recipe is quite different from yours. They have no shortening or eggs but cream instead. You just quickly mix them up, roll, cut, dip in butter, and bake. Delicious.
Kate,
Your recipe sounds interesting…and easy!
Heres some useless info to confuse you..
We call those scones
and biscuits are Cookies in Australia!!
oh and have your heard of lemonade scones??
the ingredients are flour, lemonade and cream
the lemonade is the rising agent… oh but your lemonde isnt fizzy in the states.. oh well.. forget that idea…. maybe another soda drink would work.. or soda water … anyway google the recipe
Mmmm! There are times when baking powder biscuits are practically a staple for our fam. We love them!
I do so love a good biscuit. I could eat biscuit sandwiches everyday!
There are a few things that should ALWAYS be made from scratch…and biscuits is one of them. I like to cut the dough with cookie cutter sometimes…they turn out cute and the kids LOVE it. My recipe is essentially the same as yours, but I use all butter…no shortening.
Yum!! Now I’m hungry!!!