Cooking with Michy

Servings: 5

Ingredients

 • 1 cup all-purpose flour

 • 2 teaspoon baking powder

 • 1/2 teaspoon salt

 • 1/4 c shortening

 • 6 tablespoons milk

Directions

 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

 2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

 3. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt.

 4. Cut shortening in until mixture has a fine crumb texture.

 5. Stir in milk with a fork to make a soft dough.

 6. Knead 8 to 10 times, and then roll out to a thickness of at least 1/2 inch.

 7. Cut into rounds with a cookie or biscuit cutter.

 8. Place on cookie sheet, and allow to rest for a five minutes.

 9. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Serve warm.

Source: Allrecipes.com

Review: These tea biscuits so much fun to make and tasted really good too. We started off strong getting all our ingredients sorted and mixed together in record breaking time. We were very fast today in getting everything ready without cutting any corners, I think that was our greatest asset in baking these tea biscuits. The one problem we faced was we must have miss measured some of the liquid ingredients because our dough after being mixed was very dry and crumble and didn’t all stick together. Although this happened we quickly made a decision to add a little more milk and that sure worked and we were able to fix our mistake. One thing I found very interesting was how to knead the dough and how to know when you have kneaded it enough. This will help me in the future when I make more quick breads. The one thing that stood out to me that I would do differently is I would change the recipe to have more milk required so that we don’t run into the same problem that we did of having our dough to dry. These biscuits tasted amazing especially with your favourite flavor of jam to go with it!