Description
My father was a man that could take an unstocked kitchen and make a gourmet meal. I watched him make these biscuits when we were out of milk. Just amazing!
Ingredients
- 3 cups self-rising flour
- ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 cup tomato-vegetable juice cocktail
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
- Stir the flour
- baking soda
- salt
- and sugar together in a bowl
- and cut in the shortening with a pastry cutter until the mixture looks like crumbs. Mix in the vegetable juice cocktail just until moist
- and turn out onto a well-floured work surface. Gently knead several times just until dough holds together
- roll out to 1/2-inch thick
- and cut into rounds with a biscuit cutter. Place the biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven until risen and lightly browned
- 8 to 10 minutes.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 25 mins
Servings: 18