Baking Powder Biscuit

Posted By North Star.

Ingredients.

2 cups bread flour
5 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon shortening
1 cup milk and water in equal parts
1 tablespoon butter

Directions.

1. Mix dry ingredients, and sift twice.
2. Work in butter and shortening with tips of fingers; add gradually the liquid, mixing with knife to a soft dough.
3. It is impossible to determine the exact amount of liquid, owing to differences in flour.
4. Toss on a floured board, pat and roll lightly to one-half inch in thickness.
5. Shape with a biscuit-cutter.
6. Place on buttered pan, and bake in hot oven twelve to fifteen minutes.
7. If baked in too slow an oven, the gas will escape before it has done its work.