Recipe - Quick Tea Biscuits

2 cup Flour
4 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
One half cup Shortening
Three fourths cup Milk

1. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Cut in shortening.

2. Add milk all at once, stirring with a fork to form a sticky dough.

3. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead 10 times. Roll out to
about One half inch thick and cut into 2 inch rounds with a cookie or biscuit
cutter.

4. Bake at 425 degrees on an ungreased baking sheet for 1012 minutes or
until lightly browned.

NOTES : You can make many varitions of this: cheese such as cheddar, swiss
or mozarella, crispy cooked and crumbled bacon, sauteed onions, fresh
chives, chopped sun dried tomatoes can all be added to the dry ingredients
after the shortening is cut in.
Recipe by: TV Guide 1994

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 383 by RecipeLu
recipelu@geocities.com on Dec 18, 1997