Grandma`s baking powder biscuits

This is not my grandmother`s recipe. ....She did`t use a recipe, neither of them did, at least I don`t remember them using a recipe, any who here is the recipe from the 1967 Kansan Silver Spoon Cookbook.

Grandma`s Baking powder biscuits
Mrs. Tom Selby

2 cups flour, sifted
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg, unbeaten
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 Tablespoons sugar ( optional)
2/3 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 cup shortening

Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Add shortening and blend well. Pour milk in slowly and add egg. Stir until stiff. Turn dough onto floured board and knead 5 times. Roll out to 1/2-inch thick and cut using biscuit cutter. Bake 12 to 15 minutes at 450 degrees. Makes 12 to 14 biscuits.


* note , if don`t have biscuit cutter, can use a glass.