{"id":30,"date":"2008-10-24T20:42:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T20:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-10-24T20:50:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T20:50:01","slug":"baking-powder-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Baking Powder Biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=1&amp;message=1&amp;_wp_original_http_referer=http%3A%2F%2Frecipes.morgeneggweb.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fedit.php\"><\/a>Into bowl sift:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 cups of sifted flour<\/li>\n<li>4 teaspoons baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To this flour mixture add:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 cup shortening like Snowdrift or Crisco<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With a knife or a pastry blender cut the shortening into the flour and mix.\u00a0 Keep cutting until the shortening is in pieces the size of large peas.\u00a0 It only takes a few minutes.\u00a0 Then add:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup milk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stir just until mixed in.\u00a0 You can then just drop this by large spoonfulls onto a greased baking pan or you can turn it out onto a floured surface and roll out to about 1\/2 inch thick and cut with a round cookie cutter.\u00a0 Place close together on a greased pan.\u00a0 Bake at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes.\u00a0 If you brush the tops with milk they will get nice and brown.<\/p>\n<p>(Comment from Grandma Ruth Morgenegg:\u00a0 This recipe has more milk and more shortening than most recipes and that is why they are so good.\u00a0 I did that myself.\u00a0 The secret of good biscuits is don&#8217;t handle them too much, just as little as possible.\u00a0 If you cut them in rounds after cutting as many as you can, gather up the remaining dough and work together as little as possible and roll out again.\u00a0 You can also roll out the dough to 1\/2 inch thick and spread with oleo then spread with jam and roll up as a jelly roll then cut in 1 inch slices.\u00a0 Place cut side down on greased baking sheet.\u00a0 these will have to bake a little longer maybe 20 minutes.\u00a0 Always bake biscuites quite close together.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into bowl sift: 2 cups of sifted flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1\/2 teaspoon salt To this flour mixture add: 1\/2 cup shortening like Snowdrift or Crisco With a knife or a pastry blender cut the shortening into the flour and mix.\u00a0 Keep cutting until the shortening is in pieces the size of large peas.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}