My Mom's Biscuits

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 4 cups self-rising flour, sifted
• 1/2 cup lard
• 1 1/3 cups milk
• butter, melted

Recipe

• 1 cut shortening into flour ( i use a pastry blendr but my mom used her fingers) until crumbly.
• 2 pour all of the milk in at once.
• 3 mix briskly and lightly with a fork until dough clings together in a soft ball.
• 4 the less you work the dough the tender the biscuit.
• 5 turn dough out onto a floured surface.
• 6 knead about 5 times.
• 7 lightly pat dough to a 1/2 inch thickness.
• 8 we pat the dough out with our hands instead of using a rolling pin.
• 9 cut biscuits with a 2 3/4 inch round cutter.
• 10 place the biscuits 1 inch apart on a ungreased baking sheet.
• 11 my mom baked her biscuits at 450* but i bake mine at 375* for about 15 minutes.
• 12 brush the tops of biscuits with melted butter the minute they come out of the oven.