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Baking Powder Biscuits
/ Cuisine: Canada

Ingredients

Qty unit Ingredient
2 cups
All-purpose Flour
2 teaspoons
Sugar
Ingredient Info
Sugar
Sugar is a highly refined, multi-purpose ingredient, often referred to as granulated sugar or white sugar. Made from ..
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4 teaspoons
Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon
Salt
Ingredient Info
Salt
Table salt is a natural at bringing out food's flavours and aromas. Its fine, uniformly-shaped crystals make it the best..
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1/2 teaspoon
Cream Of Tartar
1/2 cup
Shortening cold, cubed
2/3 cup
Milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450°F / 230°C / Gas Mark 8

If you don't own a pastry blender, you can use 2 kitchen knives to cut the shortening into the flour mixture.

Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cream of tartar.

Cut shortening into dry mixture with a pastry blender until mealy.

Make a well in the center of the mixture and add milk, stir to blend. Put out onto a lightly floured pastry board and knead 8 times. Roll out and cut with a cookie cutter.

Place on cookie sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 400°F for 12 minutes.

Serve warm.

Keldon C. | February 6th, 2022

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