Edna Lewis’s Biscuits Recipe

Name: Edna Lewis’s Biscuits Recipe
Ingredients: 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour; 1 scant teaspoon salt; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, or make your own (see Tip); 2/3 cup lard; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk (If sweet milk is being used, omit the baking soda and the 2 tablespoons of milk; sweet milk is more liquid than sour and therefore these are not needed.)

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Edna Lewis mastered dozens of bread and biscuit recipes over the years, and in “The Taste of Country Cooking,” she offers two for biscuits; this is the flannel-soft version Be sure to use...

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Ingredients

3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 scant teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, or make your own (see Tip)
2/3 cup lard
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk (If sweet milk is being used, omit the baking soda and the 2 tablespoons of milk; sweet milk is more liquid than sour and therefore these are not needed.)