Grandma's Baking Powder Biscuits

Grandma's Baking Powder Biscuits

46 Reviews
  • Prep: 15 min
  • Cook: 10 min
  • Ready In: 25 min

“This is my grandmother's biscuit recipe. It is my all-time favorite and has a really good flavor to it. Be sure not to roll out too thin, you want high biscuits! I usually just pat out the dough to the desired thickness, usually 1/2 inch.” - by IMACOOKY1

Ingredients

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Original recipe yields 1 dozen biscuits

Directions

  1. Preheat an oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
  2. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, cream of tartar, and salt into a bowl. Use a pastry cutter to chop vegetable shortening into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Whisk egg and milk together in a separate bowl and slowly add milk mixture to flour mixture, stirring as you pour, until dough is moistened and well-mixed. Drop dough by spoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet.
  3. Bake in the preheated oven until biscuits have risen and are golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes.

Nutrition

Amount Per Serving (12 total)

  • Calories
  • 173 cal
  • 9%
  • Fat
  • 9.4 g
  • 15%
  • Carbs
  • 19.1 g
  • 6%
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Based on a 2,000 calorie diet

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Reviews (46)

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Meghan81
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Meghan81

"Only change I made was to use butter. Delicious, great texture, baked up perfectly. This will be my new go-to biscuit recipe! A tip is to grate the butter into the flour mixture, then just stir toget..." See moreher - great way to get the butter into the right size pieces."

wulfs
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wulfs

"Fluffy, just a tad sweet and plump enough that you can skip rolling and cutting - super easy!..." See more"

Madelyn
21

Madelyn

"I used butter in place of shorting and whipping cream in place of milk, a crunch of sea salt on the biscuits just out of the oven, and made the most delectable, perfect biscuits ever! A slight crunch..." See more in the outside, moist and flavorful on the inside. : )"

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