Biscuits For 2

Mary, over at One Perfect Bite late posted a recipe for "Biscuits for two". What a keen catch for unmarried people, for pocket-size families together with 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 together with slowly recipe

makes 4 delicious biscuits.

1 loving cup all role 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°) together with grease a baking sheet.

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

Add milk together with stir but until everything is moistened. Turn out onto a lightly floured counter together with knead 8-10 times. Dough mightiness seem a piffling gummy at first, but it volition come upward together nicely later y'all knead it a few times.

Pat or ringlet dough to 1/2" thickness together with cutting amongst floured 2 1/2" biscuit cutter (the floured rim of a drinking drinking glass volition function 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.