Biscuits. Moist, lightly sweet biscuits are just perfect for breakfast or a cup of tea in the afternoon. This is as close as I could get to the store bakery version. My husband and kids loved these just as much as the store bought biscuits. We make a lactose free version with vanilla soy milk and margarine, but have made the milk variety for others. This simple, made from scratch, butter biscuit recipe from Paula Deen is a Southern favorite for breakfast.

Ingredients include all-purpose flour, cubed butter and milk. Cut in butter with a pastry blender or a fork, or two knives, until crumbly. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. You can cook Biscuits using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Biscuits

You need 2 cups of self-rising flour.
It's 1 1/2 tsp of white granulated sugar.
Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
Prepare 3/8 cup (6 tbsp) of shortening.
It's 1/4 cup (4 tbsp) of cold butter.
Prepare 1 cup of buttermilk.

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Using a box grater, grate butter over the flour. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks.

Biscuits step by step

Preheat oven to 450 degrees..
Cut the butter into small pieces and stick back in the fridge pulling out only when ready to incorporate into the dough..
Whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt..
Cut butter and shortening into dry ingredients..
Mix in buttermilk and gently knead just a couple of times..
Roll out and cut into rounds..
Brush tops with additional buttermilk..
Bake for 15-20 min. until brown on top..
Brush with melted butter immediately after removing from oven..
Enjoy !.

Biscuits are what take us into the kitchen today to cook: fat, flaky mounds of quick bread, golden brown, with a significant crumb Composed of flour, baking powder, fat and a liquid, then baked in a hot oven, they are an excellent sop for sorghum syrup, molasses or honey They are marvelous layered with country ham or smothered in white sausage gravy, with eggs, with grits Tips for Making Biscuits. The secret to excellent biscuits is COLD BUTTER. Many times the biscuit dough gets worked so much that the butter softens before the biscuits even go in the oven. You want to handle the dough as little as possible because we want that butter to stay cold. Homemade biscuits call for just six ingredients: all-purpose flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, butter, and milk.