TIPS FOR MAKING MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH BISCUITS Recipe

Ingredients

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• Make sure the shortening and baking powder or baking soda are fresh. shopping list
• Measure the ingredients carefully to ensure your biscuits will rise well and be light and fluffy. shopping list
• Cut the shortening into the flour using a pastry blender, two table knives, or a wire whisk until the mixture looks like fine crumbs. Thoroughly blending the shortening and dry ingredients produces flaky biscuits shopping list
• . Treat your biscuits gently—over-handling can toughen the dough. shopping list
• To make biscuits the same thickness, roll the dough between 2 dowel rods or sticks, 1/2 inch thick and 14 inches long. shopping list
• Push the biscuit cutter, dipped in flour, straight down into the dough for even-sized biscuits. Cut biscuits as close together as possible. shopping list
• If you don’t have a biscuit cutter, use a sharp knife or use cookie cutters for fun shapes shopping list
• . Lightly press—but don’t knead—leftover scraps of dough. shopping list