Favorite Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups self-rising flour, sifted
1 1/3 cups buttermilk
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 cup Crisco shortening
1 pinch baking powder

Preparation

Measure out buttermilk in measuring cup and let sit for 5-10 minutes, add a pinch of baking powder and stir well.
Preheat oven to 450\u00b0F.
Measure out flour with 1/4 tsp of baking powder and sift with a sifter into a bowl.
Add Crisco shortening and cut into flour well.
Make a well in middle of flour mixture and pour buttermilk in slowly.
Flour your hand, mix together flour mixture and buttermilk well, forming a ball and turn out onto a floured surface.
Clean hands (scraping off all dough).
Roll with a floured rolling pin or you can use your hands to flatten out, to about 1/2 to 1-inch thick.
Cut with a large floured biscuit (round) cutter or use the rim of a floured round drinking glass.
Place on a greased baking sheet and bake 12 to 15 minutes or until tops are lightly brown.
NOTE: You can use a small biscuit cutter depending on how many biscuits you want to make.