Best Ever Biscuits

By Pat Ross

This is my favorite Biscuit recipe.  They are so buttery and flakey.  The cinnamon biscuit’s are definitely a family favorite in my home.

3 cups all-purpose flour

¼ cup instant powdered milk

1/8  cup baking powder

1/8 cup sugar

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cream of tartar

1 cup butter-flavor crisco

3 Tbls. butter        

3/4 – 1 cup cold water

 Mix in order given.  Use pastry blender when adding the crisco.  Knead five minutes with hands.  Roll out and cut into 3 inch circles, two inches thick.  Bake in 375 degree oven for 20 minutes or until lightly browned.

Makes about 24 biscuits.

**Variation**

Cinnamon Biscuits 

(My Creation)

Use biscuit recipe and roll out into rectangle . Spread with soft butter and sprinkle with cinnamon, sugar and brown sugar.  Roll up like jelly roll and cut with biscuit cutter, two inches thick.  

Bake at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes

Frost with white frosting

Makes 18 cinnamon biscuits