Old Fashioned Baking Powder Biscuits ~ Tea Biscuits

My Mom made these often,

with minimal ingredients.

to feed her large family,

This recipe yields around 15 biscuits.

They are a favourite of 

my grandkids also, 

disappearing fast when

 they're around.

Great served warm with butter, 

also with soup.

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

4 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 cup butter cut into small pieces.

(If you like the biscuits, more flaky, 
use a between 1/4 and 1/2 cups butter.)

1 cup milk.

Preheat Oven to 450 deg.F

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour

baking powder and salt.

Butter

 Cut butter into flour mixture

 until mixture is a 

  course crumb texture,

My Mom used her fingers

 to mix the butter in

I do also sometimes.

Stir milk into flour mixture

stirring with a fork to

make a soft dough,

(reserving a little, to brush on top of biscuits

about an 8th of an inch of a measuring cup}

Knead lightly for a few minutes.

Roll or pat out to desired

 thickness-about 1/2 inch.

Cut out biscuits with a 

2 inch cookie cutter.

My favorite glass works well.

Place on an ungreased cookie sheet,

Brush tops with milk (optional)

Bake 10-12 minutes or 

until golden brown

450 deg.F

Delicious right out of the oven,  with jam. 

 Perfect Tea Biscuits should be golden brown

with a fairly smooth, level top.

They should be slightly moist,

 tender, light and flaky.

This recipe I took from an old Five Roses Cookbook.
I substituted the  shortening for butter.

My other recipes on

 baking powder biscuits ~ tea biscuits:

Almond Milk Tea Biscuits.

also

Yogurt Tea Biscuits

Yogurt replaces the milk.

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