Rachel's Famous Homemade Biscuits And Stickies

Total Time: 33 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 13 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups self-rising flour
• 7 tablespoons crisco shortening (r)
• 3/4 cup milk (rachel recommends a little less than 3/4 cup)
• 1/2-3/4 cup butter or 1/2-3/4 cup margarine
• 2 -3 teaspoons sugar
• 1 -2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 place the flour and shortening in a large bowl.
• 2 using a pastry cutter, a fork, or your fingers, mix the flour and shortening into pea-sized morsels.
• 3 add the milk to the flour and shortening mixture and combine, using a fork. mix a minimum number of strokes, or for for about 15 seconds.
• 4 place the dough onto a hard surface sprinkled liberally with flour.
• 5 using floured hands, knead the dough a few times. do not over-knead.
• 6 sprinkle the dough with flour and, using a rolling pin, roll it out to the desired thickness, thin for crispy biscuits and thick for more doughy biscuits.
• 7 use a cookie cutter cut out the biscuits and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet about 1 inch apart. leave a 1 1/2" margin near the edges of the pan on which to place the stickies. keep the cookie cutter well-coated with flour to prevent sticking.
• 8 to make stickies, ball up remaining dough left from biscuit cutting. sprinkle with flour and roll into a very thin layer.
• 9 turn the dough over, flour it again, and roll it again. the resulting dough will be flatter and wider than the biscuit dough, about 13-15 inches in diameter.
• 10 place triangles of butter or margarine 1 to 1 1/2 inches apart on the dough.
• 11 sprinkle dough with sugar. sprinkle ground cinnamon on top of the sugar.
• 12 roll up the dough jelly roll style and cut it into 3/4 inch slices.
• 13 place the stickies in the empty space around the edges of the cookie sheet.
• 14 bake at 450°f for 12 to 13 minutes or until golden brown.