Mix:
2 Cups flour....AP is great
1TBS Baking Powder,
1 tsp salt,
1 tsp sugar.....
Now cut into medium pieces... 6 TBS of cold, hard butter (3/4 stick)
Put this on the dry mix from above. Get a pastry cutter. They're
cheap. Use the pastry cutter to cut the butter pieces into the flour
mix until they are pea sized. Do not cut down too much.
Now.... add just over 1/2 cup of ice cold butter milk and
gently.....gently.... mix in with a fork. You'll probably have to add
a touch more to get to a dough consistency. Take out of your mixing
bowl and gently.....gently....gently.... press down to 3/4 inch. Cut
this into pieces and put on a greased pan. Bake at 350 until just a
touch brown on top. This is a genuine old fashioned recipe. You must
not break down the butter into tiny, tiny pieces, and you must not mix
the butter too much into the flour mix. I just cut my bisquits into
off-sized chunks about 2 inches across. If you want to be fancy, use a
appropriate sized tin can with both ends cut off.