Recipe - Golden Buttermilk Biscuits

2 cup AllPurpose Flour
3 teaspoon Baking powder
2 teaspoon Sugar
One half teaspoon Cream of tarter
One fourth teaspoon Baking soda
One half cup Shortening
Three fourths cup Buttermilk
One fourth teaspoon Salt

Stir together flour, baking powder, sugar, cream of tarter, soda and salt.
Cut in shortening until mixture looks like course crumbs. Fashion a well in
the middle and add milk quickly, then stir just till the dough clings
together. Knead gently on lightly floured surface for 10 to 12 strokes.
Roll or pat out to One half inch thick. Cut with floured cutter or tumbler. Bake
in moderately hot oven with 2/3 coals on top and 1/3 on bottom for 10 to 12
minutes or till golden brown. From the files of Al Rice, North Pole Alaska.
Feb 1994

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