I love Big Fluffy Biscuits. Just about every time I make them I use a different recipe. I have been trying for years to make biscuits just like my grandmas. She made the best biscuits ever. I called them cathead biscuits, because they were huge and fluffy and yummy. This recipe has came the closest out of all the recipes that I have tried over the years. they were big not quiet as big as hers but they are good sized. They were flaky on the outside and fluffy and light on the inside.
Do they make you hungry? I think I will stick with this recipe for awhile it was really simple too. 2 cups of flour, 4 tablespoons of shortening (although I only used like 3 and a half), and 1 cup of buttermilk. Cut your shortening into the flour with a pastry blender or 2 knives will work also. mix in your buttermilk (or if your like me and never have butter milk on hand mix a tablespoon and a half of white vinegar into a cup of milk and let it set for 5 to 10 minutes)Your dough will be really wet and sticky but turn it onto a well floured board and get some flour on your hands too, sprinkle a little flour on top of the dough and fold it 6 or 8 times. pat it out and cut your biscuits out and put them on a oiled pan. Bake them at 450 for 15 minutes and then you will have yummy biscuits. Mines were still kind of sticky when I patted them out but I went with it and they turned out fabulous. Too much flour and kneading them too much will make them tough so a little sticky is a good thing. Happy Baking.~Mary B~
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