how do you make old fashion homemade biscuits? ones that rise only a little. they are on the heavy side.?

Question

homemade old fashion country biscuits.

Answer 1

J.P.'s Big Daddy Biscuits

INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1/3 cup shortening
1 cup milk
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Gradually stir in milk until dough pulls away from the side of the bowl.
Turn out onto a floured surface, and knead 15 to 20 times. Pat or roll dough out to 1 inch thick. Cut biscuits with a large cutter or juice glass dipped in flour. Repeat until all dough is used. Brush off the excess flour, and place biscuits onto an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake for 13 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges begin to brown.

Baking Powder Biscuits I

INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup shortening
1 cup milk
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.
In a bowl mix the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut in the shortening until the mixture has only pea sized lumps. Add milk and mix until dry mixture is absorbed. Drop dough by heaping spoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheet.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown.

Mayonnaise Biscuits

INGREDIENTS
2 cups self-rising flour
1 cup milk
6 tablespoons mayonnaise
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
In a large bowl, stir together flour, milk, and mayonnaise until just blended. Drop by spoonfuls onto lightly greased baking sheets.
Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

Kentucky Biscuits

INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 dash salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup buttermilk
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar. Cut in 1/2 cup butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Mix in the buttermilk. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead 2 minutes. Transfer to an ungreased baking sheet, roll into a 6x6 inch square, and cut into 12 even sections. Do not separate.
Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted in the center of the square comes out clean. Separate into biscuits, and serve hot.

Tea Biscuits

INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup milk
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut shortening in until mixture has a fine crumb texture. Stir in milk with a fork to make a soft dough. Knead 8 to 10 times, and then roll out to a thickness of at least 1/2 inch. Cut into rounds with a cookie or biscuit cutter. Place on cookie sheet, and allow to rest for a few minutes.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Serve warm.

Answer 2

The original Bisquick biscuit recipe is the best...the trick is not to "work" the dough very much. The recipe tells you to knead the dough until smooth...the more you knead the dough the more the gluten in the flour has a chance to develop and it gives you a less tender biscuit. Instead just kind of fold it over and turn, fold and turn, 3 or 4 times, then flatten it gently to about 3/4 inch with your hands. Use a biscuit cutter or drinking glass dipped in flour or Bisquick to cut them. Place them with sides touching on the baking sheet and bake according to directions. (If the sides touch they will rise higher) For a tender top, brush the top of each biscuit lightly with milk or even water before baking.

Answer 3

Above the recipe for "Buttermilk Biscuits" is this introduction...
"Biscuits, known as often for being hard and tough as for being light and flaky, owe their popularity to their quick baking. In the times before baking powder, bakers used homemade yeast or pearl ash to raise their biscuits. On the Western ranges, biscuits usually were made with sourdough. In the kitchens of the South, cooks pounded the dough with mallets or hatchets for half an hour to make beaten biscuits. When baking powder became commercially available in the nineteenth century, biscuits became lighter and more dependable."

Maybe all you need to do is leave out the baking powder?

Answer 4

2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup shortning
2/3 to 3/4 cup milk
sift dry ingredients into a bowl, cut in shortning until like coarse crumbs,make a well and add milk, add milk all at once, stir quickly with a fork, just until dough follows fork around the bowl ,turn into lightly floured serface kneed gently 10 to 12 strokes-- roll or pat dough1/2 inch thick, dip cutter in flour cut dough straight down- no twisting-
Bake 12 to 15 minuates at 450 F.
Makes 16 biscuits

Answer 5

Bisquick! It is the easiest way to make homemade biscuits! And they come out perfect everytime!

Answer 6

mix up the flower and shortning(crisco, bout table spoon) then blend in an egg then add buttermilk until its the way you want it. roll out the dough until 3/4 inch thick and cut out the biscuits and bake in oven. the egg makes them rise and you gonna love them when you do it like this