Recipe: Appetizing Bigmama's Saturday Morning Biscuits

Bigmama's Saturday Morning Biscuits.

You can have Bigmama's Saturday Morning Biscuits using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bigmama's Saturday Morning Biscuits

1. You need 2 of & 1/2 cups self rising flour (I use White Lily).
2. It's 1/2 stick of cold salted butter, diced.
3. It's 1/2 of of a Crisco baking stick (or use 1/2 cup of shortening).
4. Prepare 1 cup of ice cold buttermilk.
5. It's 2-3 tablespoons of melted butter.
6. You need of Flour for dusting and kneeding.

Bigmama's Saturday Morning Biscuits step by step

1. Preheat oven to 400°. Lightly spray a baking pan with no-stick cooking spray..
2. Place flour in large bowl. With pastry blender or fork, cut (blend) in shortening and butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs..
3. Make a well (hole) in center of mixture. Add buttermilk, and mix until dough forms. (Dough will be a little sticky) Note: Use gloves if you don't like to touch wet dough)..
4. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Lightly sprinkle flour over top of dough and in your hands. Knead dough lightly for one minute. (Dust dough lightly with flour if it sticks)..
5. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll dough out. Fold dough in half & repeat rolling and folding process 4 more times. Dust dough and surface area with flour as needed..
6. Roll dough to 1/2-inch thickness. Cut with a 2 1/2-inch floured round biscuit cutter, reshaping scraps and flouring as needed. (I used a glass).
7. Place biscuits in baking pan (make sure biscuits are touching) and bake at 400° for 20-22 minutes or until lightly browned. Brush tops of biscuits with melted butter..