Biscuits

This is the biscuit recipe that my grandmother uses to make all her biscuits.

Biscuits
Ingredients
2 cups self-rising flour
1/3 cup butter Crisco
1 cup buttermilk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. 
2. Cut the Crisco into the flour until it forms small pea sized clumps.  
3. Add buttermilk slowly until all the dough is wet, but not overly moist.  It may not take the whole cup.
4. Knead the down on a floured surface until it is smooth.  Only take a minute or two.  If the dough was too wet, you will need to add a little more flour to knead it without it sticking to your hands.
5. Roll out the dough until it is 1/2 inch thick.  
6. Using a 2 inch round cutter, cut out biscuits.  
7. Reroll scraps until all or most of the dough is used.  Should only have to do this twice.
8. Bake for 10 minutes, or until the tops begin to lightly brown.

Notes
Makes about 15 biscuits.


My grandmother always melted a stick of butter to brush the bottom of her pan and the tops of her biscuits before cooking.  We then used the left over butter to butter the insides when they were done.  I have stopped doing this because they seem to cook better without the butter in my pan/oven. 

Don't want to roll and cut?  No problem, just put a little flour on your hands and pinch off pieces of dough and form them in your hand.

Made too many?  Don't throw them out!  You can freeze these biscuits for an easy breakfast or  for use in future recipes.

Lactose Intolerant?  You can use lactose free milk to make these.  The biscuits will not be as fluffy.  When my grandmother made these with lactose free milk, I told her they seemed to taste more like crackers than a biscuit, but they still worked for putting jelly or sausage on!

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Is it worth making this homemade?

2 cups self-rising flour = $.20
1/3 cup butter Crisco = $.24
1 cup buttermilk = $.25

So, one recipe of biscuits costs $.69.  That means that each biscuit costs $.05

Frozen Biscuits 
Pillsbury frozen biscuits cost $2.89 for 12 biscuits. So each biscuit = $.24

Canned Biscuits
Pillsbury Grands costs $1.49 for 8 biscuits. So each biscuit = $.17. 

If we buy store bought biscuits, we usually get the canned ones.  If you make homemade instead of buying the canned ones, you will save $.12 on each biscuit.  If you make biscuits twice a month (like we do) you will save $3.60 per month and $43.20 for the year.

Summary

One frozen biscuit = $.24
One canned biscuit = $.17
One homemade biscuit = $.05

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