Every Day Buttermilk Biscuits

• 2 cups Self-Rising Flour
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/3 cups Vegetable Shortening
• 2/3 cups Buttermilk
• 2 Tablespoons Butter, Melted, For Drizzling

1. Pre-heat your oven to 375F.
2. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, salt and baking powder. Add the shortening and with a large fork or pastry cutter, incorporate into flour. Pour in the buttermilk and gently fold in. When the dough comes together in a large clump, dump onto a lightly floured surface. (I wash my counter and while still wet, I lay out a piece of alminium foil, large enough to pat out the dough onto the counter, and with a damp cloth, rub it onto the surface and sprinkle with flour. The foil sticks to the counter and the flour sticks to the foil and later, clean up is a snap).
3. Knead the dough lightly about 6 times and pat into a cicle about 1/2 inches thick. Cut out the biscuits with a biscuit cutter. (I use an empty baking powder can. I have removed the top and bottom with a can opener.)
4. Place biscuits close together in a glass baking dish or iron skillet that has been greased lightly with shortening. Pop into the hot oven. Bake about 10-15 minutes and remove from oven.
5. Drizzle some melted butter over each biscuit, and a little (optional) sprinkle of salt on top, return to oven until they begin to brown, maybe another 5 minutes but watch them closely.
6. Yummy! Double the recipe to feed more hungry people. This recipe makes about 8, 2.5" biscuits.

flour, salt, baking powder, vegetable shortening, buttermilk, butter

Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/breads/every-day-buttermilk-biscuits/ (may not work)