Ingredients
• 2 cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons shortening
• 1 cup chilled buttermilk
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (about the size of dimes)
Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.
Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press or roll into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough no twisting. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the scraps won’t be as light as the first… my grandmother would use these scraps for dumplings….your choice)
Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.
