The Best Biscuits

Submitted By: Teresa Vinson

Ingredients

• 2 cups self-rising flour
• 1/8 tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• 2 tbsp. sugar
• 1 cup whole buttermilk
• 4 tbsp. Crisco
• 2 tbsp. melted butter

Instructions

Mix flour, baking soda, salt, and sugar. Cut Crisco in small pieces and use a pastry

cutter or two knives to mix the Crisco into the flour mixture until it forms small pieces. Add buttermilk and mix with a fork until dough forms a ball. Place dough on a piece of floured parchment paper and pat to ¾-inch disc. Cut out with a biscuit cutter and place in a skillet that has been greased with Crisco. Brush the melted butter on top of the biscuits and bake at 425° for 10-12 minutes or until slightly brown on top.