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Mom's Best Biscuits.

You can Have Mom's Best Biscuits using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mom's Best Biscuits

1. Lets Go Prepare 1 1/2 cup of cake flour.
2. It's 1 cup of all-purpose flour.
3. Lets Go Prepare 3 tsp of baking powder.
4. What You needis 1/4 tsp of cream of tartar.
5. It's 2 tsp of sugar.
6. What You needis 1/2 tsp of salt.
7. Lets Go Prepare 4 tbsp of lard or shortening.
8. What You needis 4 tbsp of butter.
9. What You needis 1 1/3 cup of buttermilk.
10. What You needis of egg wash.
11. Lets Go Prepare 1 of egg.
12. Lets Go Prepare 1 tsp of water.

Mom's Best Biscuits step by step

1. Preheat oven to 425°F, sift dry ingredients into a large bowl, cut in cold lard/shortening and butter into the flour using a pastry cutter or your fingers until it resembles course crumbs..
2. Add buttermilk 1/2 cup at a time, mixing with a fork or your hands until dough staystarts to come away from sides of the bowl, you may need all the milk or not if dough is too dry add more milk if it's too wet add a little more flour, on a lightly floured surface turn out dough, knead 7-10 times then pat out into a rectangle 1/2 inch thick.
3. Fold dough into thirds on top of itself like an envelope, using a rolling pin roll into 1/2 inch thick rectangle then repeat the fold and roll step 2 more times, this is what creates flaky layers into the biscuit..
4. Roll dough into a 1/2 inch thick rectangle after the final fold and roll, cut out biscuits with a 1 1/2 to 2 inch biscuit cutter, place biscuits close together on a greased baking pan or cake pan.
5. Beat egg with 1 teaspoon of water brush tops of biscuits bake for 10 to 15 minutes until golden brown, brush tops with melted butter, enjoy.