About an hour after dinner tonight, everyone was saying that they were still hungry….so I decided to make some homemade biscuits and gravy. I made a batch large enough for  breakfast tomorrow and then fried up our first taste of our local hog sausage. Yum!

Buttermilk Biscuits

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1/3 cup butter flavored shortening
1 cup buttermilk
Whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder and sugar in a bowl. Cut in the shortening until the mixture appears crumbly. Stir the buttermilk in slowly, mixing until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.  Turn dough onto a lightly floured board and knead. Roll out about 1″ thick. Cut biscuits and then bake in a preheated 425 degree oven for 12-14 mins.