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Twirl and Taste: Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits will remind you of your Southern Grandmother's biscuits, or make you wish you had a Southern grandmother!

2 cups sifted Martha White flour or all-purpose flour

(sift before measuring)

1 tablespoon baking powder

3/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

5 tablespoons chilled vegetable shortening

    or lard (makes the best biscuits)

1 cup buttermilk

Preheat oven to 440 degrees with rack in the middle. In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. . Add shortening, coating it with flour, then rub between your fingertips until coarsely blended with some 1/2-inch lumps. Make a well in the flour mixture and then add buttermilk, stirring with a fork just until dough forms and holds together (it will be soft and sticky.)

Turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead 8 to 10 times. Too much kneading leads to tough biscuits. Roll out dough with a floured rolling pin into a 12-inch round (1/2-3/4 inch thick) and, using a fork dipped in flour, prick all the way through about every 1/2 inch.

Twirl and Taste: Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits will remind you of your Southern Grandmother's biscuits, or make you wish you had a Southern grandmother!

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This is an excellent chart to go by when trying to date all those old ball canning jars.