Recipe - Melt-In-Mouth Biscuits

DOUGH
1 One half cup All purpose flour
1 tablespoon Sugar
1 One half teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
1/8 teaspoon Baking soda
3 tablespoon Solid veg. shortening
or unsalted margarine
Three fourths cup Buttermilk OR 1 CUP HEAVY
CREAM
1 cup All purpose flour, for
shaping biscuits
2 tablespoon Butter or margarine, melted

1. Heat oven to 475 degrees. Spray an 8" baking pan with cooking spray. 2.
In a medium sized bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking
soda until blended. Cut in shortening with pastry blender, or work it in
with fingertips until lumps are no larger than small peas. 3. Stir in
buttermilk ( or cream) and let stand for 23 min. dough is very wet. 4.
Pour remaining 1 cup allpurpose flour onto a plate. Flour hands well.
Scoop up about 2 Tbsp. dough and scrape it onto the flour. Sprinkle more
flour onto the dough. Gently pick up clump of dough and shape into a soft
round by passing it from hand to hand, shaking off excess flour. Place in
middle of prepared pan. Shape 9 more biscuits this way. 5. Brush tops with
melted butter. Bake 1618 min or until tops are evenly brown.

These are the best biscuits I ever made! PLEASE MAKE THEM FIRST WITH THE
HEAVY CREAM. IT IS MUCH BETTER THAN MAKING THEM WITH BUTTERMILK! This
recipe came from the Woman's Day Magazine, 2/22/94

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini