Recipe - Baking Powder Biscuits

2 cup Flour
2 One half teaspoon Baking powder
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
5 tablespoon Shortning
Three fourths cup Milk

Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in shortning. Add milk; stir with
fork until dough is formed. Turn out onto lightly floured surface, knead
about 20 turns. Pat or roll One half inch thick. Note: For cheese biscuits, add
Three fourths cups grated cheddar cheese. Bake at 450 for about 12 minutes. Makes 20
biscuits.

From the book High Cotton Cookin', Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell,
AR 72366, ISBN 0918544149, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.