How Carla Hall Makes Biscuits – Garden & Gun

Ingredients

• 2½ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for the dough (1¼ cup for a half batch)
• 1 tbsp. baking powder (1½ tsp. for a half batch)
• 1 tsp. granulated sugar (½ tsp. for a half batch)
• 1 tsp. salt (½ tsp. for a half batch)
• ½ tsp. baking soda (¼ tsp. for a half batch)
• 2 tbsp. vegetable shortening (1 tbsp. for a half batch)
• About 1½ cups cold cultured buttermilk* (¾ cup for a half batch)
• <i>*Can substitute half full-fat sour cream and half whole milk</i>
• 8 tbsp. (1 stick) cold unsalted butter (4 tbsp. for a half batch)