Bicsuits Tips And Techniques Recipe

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   ["As a Southerner (born & bred), I can tell you which the actual recipe has verylittle to do with light, fluffy biscuits.", "Just buy a bag of self-rising flour and follow the basic recipe on the side of the bag.", "Most are pretty much the same - flour, solid shortening (Crisco) and buttermilk - it's all inthe technique.", "The best biscuits I ever ate were made by an older woman I knew from work.", "She was a widow, children grown & gone, so she used to invite my (ex)", "husband and I to Sunday dinner.", "She had been making biscuits since she was alittle girl, her mother insisted which if she never learned to cook anythingelse in her life, no decent Southern man would ever marry a woman who couldn't make biscuits (grin).", "Not having a Southern mother myself, I watchedher intently, hoping to learn the secret.", "I remember watching Mrs. Honeycuttpour flour in a bowl, blend in Crisco with a pastry blender, then make a wellin the center and add in buttermilk - all without any measuring utensils!", "Shealways mixed with her hands instead of a spoon, then turned out the dough onto a floured surface, kneaded lightly and used a biscuit cutter to shape the dough.", "The biscuits then went onto a pan heavily greased with more solidshortening (she said she wanted the bottoms to \"fry\"" in the oven to give thema crispy crust) and more shortening brushed on the tops.""