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                             Basic Biscuits

Serving Size  : 12   Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Breakfast

 Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  3-1/4  cups          Cake flour
  1      teaspoon      Salt
  1      tablespoon    Sugar
  4      teaspoons     Baking powder
  4      tablespoons   butter or margarine
                       or vegetable shortening
  1                    Egg -- lightly beaten
  1      cup           Milk
  2      tablespoons   Milk
                       Spray shortening and corn
                       Meal for coating pan

 Preheat oven to 400°. In a food processor or a large bowl, mix 3
cups of the flour with the salt, sugar and baking powder. Cut the
butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture is textured like
cornmeal. Separately mix the egg with the milk, and stir all but 2
tbs. of this liquid into the dry mixture. Mix just enough to make a
uniformly moistened dough. Dust a clean work surface with 1/2 the
remaing flour, and turn the dough out onto the floured surface.
Sprinkle the top with the rest of the flour, and with floured hands,
gently push the dough into a circle about 1/2" thick.  Cut with a 2"
or 3" biscuit cutter, and place the cut buscuits close together on a
greased corn meal coated cookie sheet. You will get about 12
biscuits. Brush the tops of the buscuits with the reserved milk egg
mixture. Bake in the preheated oven until puffed and brown, about 15
minutes.  Cool for a few minutes before serving.

Yields about a dozen buscuits.

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