Bacon Onion Cheese Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cup Flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 0.5 tsp Salt
- 0.5 cup Shortening
- 1 cup Milk (less 1 Tablespoon)
- 0.5 cup Cheddar cheese, shredded
- 0.3 cup Green onions, finely chopped
- 4 slice of bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 450 F.
- 2
Sift dry ingredients into a bowl.
- 3
Cut in the shortening with a pastry blender.
- 4
Add the milk, cheese, chopped onion and crumbled bacon, blending quickly, just until dry ingredients are moistened.
- 5
A sticky dough will result.
- 6
Turn the dough out on a floured board.
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Flour your hands and knead the dough 3 or 4 times.
- 8
Important: Do not overhandle biscuit dough.
- 9
Roll or pat to a ½-inch thickness.
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Cut with a 2-inch biscuit cutter.
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For soft-sided biscuits, place close together on a lightly greased baking sheet or in a lightly greased cast iron skillet (vegetable cooking spray works just fine).
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For biscuits that are crusty all around, place about an inch apart on a lightly greased baking sheet.
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Bake at 450 F for 12 to 15 minutes.
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Makes about 12 biscuits.