Mama's biscuits......

• Mama usually made biscuits once a week as sometimes the bread she baked did not quite make it through and she like to bake her bread on Tuesdays-
• she did not have a lot of time to fiddle fuddle with rolling out the dough so this recipe is how she made them- sometimes daddy made them for us-
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• Beat and drop Biscuits
• 4 cups of flour- do not pack
• 4 teaspoons. of baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup cold butter
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten with fork
• 1 cup of milk- our milk came straight from the cow so I would suggest
• whole milk
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• Put dry ingredients in bowl and shred the butter into flour mixture and mix well- then add the beaten eggs and milk and mix but briefly
• do not over mix or biscuits will not be light--
• Drop on a lightly greased cookie sheet- and bake until golden brown
• at 425F approx. 15 minutes-
• the temp and time again are a guess so I checked some biscuit recipes and this seemed about right - daddy made big biscuits and mother's were smaller but we enjoyed either baker's biscuits........
• sometimes mama would sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top of half the pan-
• -mother would wrap leftover biscuits in a damp tea towel-( this was before plastic wraps etc and she had certain tea towels reserved for wrapping or covering food-)- and then pop them back into the oven-(-just to reheat)- at breakfast time and we had pancake syrup on top or heated fruit from her own canned fruit- peaches were the best...
• the recipe made about 2 dozen biscuits and would be our meal served with homemade soup-