Baking Powder Biscuits
A quick & easy recipe that should be a staple in every home.
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cups milk
Instructions
Preheat oven to 425
In large bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt
Use pastry cutter to cut in butter until pieces are pea-sized
Add milk all at once until dough forms a soft ball
Turn on to lightly floured board and knead just enough to form dough (do not overwork or your biscuits will be tough).
Roll out dough until it is 1/2 thick and cut out circular shapes with cup or glass OR just roll into biscuit-sized balls.
Place on ungreased baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes.
Meet the breakfast crew: Tilly (13) and Tucker (6). They get up and fix the morning meal for our family while I sip coffee and direct traffic.
Making breakfast is officially Tilly’s job, but she has taken it upon herself to train Tucker as her apprentice. This works out beautifully. Not only is Tucker learning to cook and bake, but it keeps my very rambunctious, loud six-year-old busy in the morning. A blessing to the whole house.
Busy, productive hands are staying out of trouble hands.
And just in case you’re wondering, I’ll share the recipe.
It’s great to see kids learning such a vital and healthy life skill. I have some friends who have never used a cooker(stove) in their lives and survive on microwave meals and take-out. I’ve been cooking/preparing meals since I was young, but unfortunately it was for rather negative reasons…cook myself, or starve. So it’s even better to know that Tilly and Tucker enjoy it.
My kids love to cook, though I am the teacher and they are the apprentice’s. They both are pretty accomplished now, my daughter more than my son. Thats a huge biscuit recipe!!! We only use 2 cups of flour… I feel sad about that. I do wish I had a bakers dozen of my own to prepare foods for. I use honey powder in my biscuits, and crisco and butter half and half. The honey powder, doesnt make them super sweet they are just a little different.
Yum, they look delicious ! I would have liked to have seen the finished product. I’ll bet that they all ate them up before you thought to take a photo. It’s so important for children to learn things like cooking. I once baby sat for a woman who never learned to cook because her mother worked full time outside the home and never cooked dinner, She had always had rolls and cold cuts in the house and just told the kids to “fix yourself something.” In one generation the ability to shop healthfully, plan menus and cook dinner had been lost. Sad. What do you serve with the bisquits for breakfast?
Mary, I fully intended to get photos of the finished product, but got distracted. I didn’t know how to cook when I got but married, but quickly learned on the job.
I did not know how to cook 8 years ago when we got married,I would burn biscuits just like these.Now I am rather accomplished and believe I can give my children the same skill.All four love to bake/cook and simply allowing our 21 month old son to ”stir” the pot is giving him a life skill.He is not going to be like his father and not be able to cook!I was taught to cook via my in laws,father in law was a chef in Geneva then here in Australia and my mother in law has a passion for Asian foods.So we have a variety here in our home,but mostly focused on Italian and Swiss/German foods.
Jessi, I had never cooked an actual meal pre-marriage…