Kendra's Easy Yummy Biscuit Recipe

My oldest daughter Kendra is usually the biscuit-maker in our family. But now the job has fallen to me since she is spending a year on the mission field with her grandparents in Arizona.

Kendra and I use the same recipe, but we have different techniques. She likes drop biscuits, I like cut-out biscuits. Either way, these are super simple and scrumptious. We're having them for supper tonight to accompany our bean soup. They're also great with cream gravy or just butter.


KENDRA'S EASY YUMMY BISCUIT RECIPE

2 c. self-rising flour
1 stick softened butter or margarine
1 c. milk

Preheat oven to 450. Sift flour into a medium bowl. Using a pastry blender, cut butter into flour until you have small pieces of butter throughout the flour.

Pour milk in and blend with a spoon just until everything is moistened. Dust flat surface with additional flour and place dough on top of flour. Carefully turn dough over in flour so that it is floured evenly around the whole ball. Without handling the dough too much, flatten with hands until it is 2" thick.

Flour your biscuit cutter (if you don't have one you can use a cleaned-out can or a glass) and cut out biscuits.

 Place on a greased cookie sheet or seasoned baking stone. Bake 10-12 minutes or until just golden on top.

*Variation: try adding some dried herbs or shredded cheese or bacon bits to the batter.

MY BISCUIT CUTTER
I bought this biscuit cutter from an antique store here in Greenville. My mom has one that is very similar that we used when I was growing up for making biscuits. The fun thing about this particular type is that it has a round attachment to turn it into a doughnut cutter!