Recipe: Yummy Biscuits

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. Are biscuits better with butter or shortening?

There are some recipes out there that call for shortening (like these fluffy biscuits), however, most call for butter. Butter provides more flavor than shortening and can create more flaky layers the way butter creates a flakier pie crust. Cut in butter with a pastry blender or a fork, or two knives, until crumbly. You can have Biscuits using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Biscuits

1. Prepare 4 of oz/100g Flour self raising.
2. Prepare of (if self raising not available add 1tsp if baking powder).
3. Prepare 4 oz of /100g Butter or cooking fat for a less rich taste.
4. You need 4 oz of /100g Sugar.
5. You need of Extras use if you want for variety combinations to your taste.
6. Prepare of Chocolate powder.
7. It's of Vanilla.
8. Prepare of Choc chips.
9. Prepare of Cinnamon, ginger,.
10. You need of Chopped nuts.
11. You need of Dried fruit (ie cranberries).
12. You need of Orange /lemon zest.

Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Using a box grater, grate butter over the flour. This simple, made from scratch, butter biscuit recipe from Paula Deen is a Southern favorite for breakfast.

Biscuits step by step

1. Soften butter, add sugar to butter mix until light and fluffy mixture made, preheat oven 180°C.
2. Add flour a bit at a time until a stiff paste is made, add chocolate etc at this stage.
3. Spoon small mounds on to a baking sheet, I have heard walnut size, flatten, with a fork for good shape, just not too big. leave space between your biscuits as they spread a little when cooking,.
4. When cooked leave on tray until cool as need to set and crisp up.
5. Serve.

Ingredients include all-purpose flour, cubed butter and milk. 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. My biscuits won the Best Quick Bread division at my county fair. One of the judges liked it so much, she asked for the recipe!