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Best Buttermilk Biscuits

If you love homemade biscuits (and who doesn't?) then you will go bonkers over this recipe for Best Buttermilk Biscuits. Baking powder biscuits don't get any easier than this recipe!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 5 tablespoons shortening
  • 1 cup buttermilk

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
     
  2. Sift together dry ingredients. Then cut in shortening with pastry blender or use your hands.
     
  3. Make a well in the middle, pour in buttermilk, and using a fork lightly mix until flour is moistened thoroughly.
     
  4. On floured surface, knead 3 times. Pat dough out until 1/2 inch thick or thicker if you like. Cut into rounds with an inverted drinking glass or a biscuit cutter.
     
  5. Set biscuits into a greased pan so that their edges touch. Bake 12-15 minutes at 450 degrees F.

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INGREDIENTS CALL FOR SHORTENING BUT DIRECTIONS SAY BUTTER. IS THE 5 TBSP RIGHT OF EITHER? THANKS

I re-read the recipe and did not see the word "butter" mentioned.

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