Flour Bread

• Your favorite biscuit recipe might merit a try, although this was made most often by my mother with BisQuick. If you need a recipe, you can try the following, which also makes tasty biscuits:
• 2 cups all purpose flour.
• 1 tablespoon baking powder. (Take a moment to make sure this is a powder and not "chunks" before you add it to the recipe for the dough.)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt.
• 1/2 cup shortening, or make it easy on yourself and use a stick of softened margarine or butter.
• 3/4 cup milk. (If you don't quite have 3/4 cup of milk in the refrigerator and can't wait until you can get some, you can substitute water for the difference if you use butter or margarine as shortening.)
• 1 standard, wide frying pan, preferably non-stick.
• Butter and molasses, butter and jelly or preserves, or a slice of cheese to put in between the crusty, sliced halves of flour bread.

1. Prepare your biscuit mix.
2. If you use the ingredients given above, sift together all dry ingredients, and thoroughly mix, then use a pastry blender (or your food processor) to add the shortening to the dry ingredients. Finally, add the milk. Drop a little flour on a surface and press the dough ball onto it to form a 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick, circular "pancake". Flip it over and lightly coat the other side with flour, so that neither top nor bottom is sticky. Drop this onto the non-stick frying pan.
3. Cook over low to medium heat until crust is a light, golden brown on both sides.
4. You'll need to turn this "pancake" very carefully to brown both sides evenly.
5. When you've removed it from pan and put on a plate or rack, break off a piece, carefully slice in two to reveal soft, steaming interior, and top with cheese or butter and preserves or butter and molasses. (You can also cut biscuits out of this, drop it on an ungreased cooking sheet, and bake for ten minutes in a 450 degree, pre-heated oven.)

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/flour-bread-50132515 (may not work)