Biscuits

Directions

1. 1
   Preheat oven to 450°.
2. 2
   Stir vinegar into milk and set aside. Stir all dry ingredients into flour.
3. 3
   Cut in shortening with fork or pastry cutter until quite fine or looks like cornmeal.
4. 4
   Make a hole in center and pour milk into flour.
5. 5
   Fold flour into it gently.
6. 6
   If too dry,
7. 7
   add small amount of milk; gently stir and fold until all flour is moistened.
8. 8
   Scrape from sides of bowl and form into a rounded mass that can turn out onto a thickly floured board.
9. 9
   Very gently, turn and coat with flour; gently push and knead 6 to 8 times.
10. 10
    Gently pat into 1-inch thickness.
11. 11
    Cut with biscuit cutter.
12. 12
    Place 1/2-inch apart on cookie sheet.
13. 13
    Re-roll scraps and pat out again to finish cutting.
14. 14
    Bake 10 minutes on rack in middle of oven or 1 notch above.