Recipe - Cowboy Biscuits

2 cup Flour
3 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
One half cup Lard or shortening
Three fourths cup Milk
2 tablespoon Milk

In a mixing bowl, stir the dry ingredients together and cut in lard or
shortening until the mixture has the texture of coarse meal.

Stir in Three fourths cup milk a little at a time until mixture forms a smooth dough.
Turn out onto a floured board and knead lightly. Roll on floured board to
One half inch thickness and cut with a floured 2inch biscuit cutter.

Place biscuits on ungreased baking sheet and brush tops with the remaining
milk. Bake in a 450 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly
browned.

For drop biscuits, add up to 1 cup milk to the flour mixture. Do not knead
the dough. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet and
bake as for rolled biscuits.

Yield: 1 dozen 2inch biscuits.