Making biscuits from scratch isn't difficult and it doesn't take that much time. I don't understand why people use the dough from the can. To me, it's tasteless, totally bland with no texture and making them from scratch makes such a tasty product.
2 1/2 cups cold flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons cold butter
1 cup cold milk
Preheat oven to 425F
Mix dry ingredients together.
Add butter and mix gently with flour.
Combine with a pastry cutter until the butter is the size of small peas.
Mix in butter with a wooden spoon. Gently mix. Don't over mix!
Form dough into a ball of dough.
Use your hand to gently flatten dough. Cut out the individual biscuits. Place closely in a pan (cast iron
is the best.)
Cook at 425F for 14 minutes.
It is so important to this recipe that everything is cold. Mixing bowl, pastry cutter, wooden spoon, flour, butter, milk. all need to be cold and I keep them in the refrigerator prior to combining them.
To save time, I combine the dry ingredients and make my own "Bisquick" mix. Then I just add the butter and milk when I'm ready to prepare it. I take the time once a month to measure out the ingredients into individual batches in canning jars that I store in my pantry cupboard. The night before I am going to use a batch jar, I put it in the fridge so it, too, is nice cold to make my biscuits nice and fluffy. Just another morning time saver when your rushing to get everybody to work and school.