Recipe: Southern Biscuits

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Southern Biscuits (GREAT RECIPE)
From: Finocchio
Newsgroup: rec.food.cooking
Date: 8-8-2000

This is the biscuit recipe I learned when I worked in a small Alabama cafe ten
years ago when I was 18. People even ordered extra biscuits to take home.

Mix together:

4 cups flour
2 Tbsp. baking powder
2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. sugar,
1 tsp. baking soda

Cut in until coarse crumbs form:
1/3 cup melted bacon fat
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) sweet (unsalted) butter

Add:
1 to 1 1/2 cups milk (estimate - amount not given in original recipe)
Stir just enough to hold the dough together (no longer than half a minute).

Knead on floured surface for about 15 seconds. Do not overdo it.

Grease your fingers with more bacon fat. Form biscuit dough into balls. Place them side by side touching each other in pans. Press down the tops lightly. Brush the tops with more bacon fat.

Bake for about 15 minutes at 450 degrees till they are nicely browned, then brush with melted butter.