2 C flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 C shortening 3/4 C milk

Heat oven to 450 degrees. Mix dry ingredients in bowl, cut in shortening with pastry blender until mixture looks like corn meal. Stir in almost all milk. Knead 20-25 times. Roll dough out to 1/5 inch thickness cut out biscuits, put on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes.