The less you knead & press it, the fluffier your biscuits will be. Be very careful not to overwork your dough. The top should be dusted but inside it should still be doughy/sticky. With floured hands, sprinkle the top with flour and turn the ball over once or twice to lightly coat it with flour just enough that it is not super sticky. On a well floured surface, dump out the dough. Gradually stir in milk until dough begins to form a ball. Cut in shortening with a fork until the mix resembles coarse crumbs (or until it looks – ironically – like dry Bisquick). In a large bowl combine the dry ingredients, stirring to mix them well. Preheat oven to 425° and grease a cookie sheet. Minus the Pioneer mix, you cheaters! Country Baking Powder Biscuits Makes 6-8 biscuits These are the old-fashioned, southern baking powder biscuits I envisioned my great-grandmother making. (Think biscuits and gravy style.) The recipe is so simple my 6 year old could mix it and he always helps with cutting the dough. The center is fluffy and bread-like, not flaky. They bake up big and fat like Grands® canned biscuits and break in half naturally along a center seam that appears during baking. I never finished testing any of the other recipes because those biscuits turned out THAT GOOD! Still, it more than met my previous requirements so I gave it a try. The next recipe I tried seemed too simple to produce anything edible. The first was okay but they were dense and tasted better dipped in soup than on their own. It had to use only food storage items, had to be fast (20 mins or less) and had to taste good. After that conversation I began a month-long journey of hunting for THE ultimate southern country biscuit recipe. Apparently, we have been losing our know-how for some time. My great-grandmother who was born in 1912, (which seems ancient to me, I assumed should have also known everything about farming, canning and homesteading) basically used BISQUICK to make her biscuits? No wonder the world is falling apart. He laughed and said “Honey, all she used was baking powder and Pioneer baking mix.” I was stunned. Recently I asked him if he remembered the recipe, or if I could get it from my grandma. My dad has talked for years about the baking powder biscuits his grandmother (my great-grandmother) used to make.
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