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Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. Mix together the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder in a bowl. With your fingers, make a well in the middle of the flour mixture, and pour the bacon drippings and buttermilk into the well. You can have Southern Biscuits using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Southern Biscuits

Prepare 3 cups of self rising flour.
It's 1/2 stick of butter frozen.
Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
It's 2 tablespoons of distilled white vinegar.
It's 15 ounces of canned evaporated milk.
It's As needed of flour for dusting.
You need As needed of Lyles Golden Syrup optional.
It's As needed of butter to brush tops with.

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Southern Biscuits instructions

Preheat oven 450°Fahrenheit mix the vinegar and milk allow to sit 10 minutes stirring occasionally..
Mix the salt and flour. Grate the butter while it's frozen. Add the butter to the flour..
Knead the dough for 5 minutes. Form into balls and put into a baking pan. Bake 35-40 minutes. When the come out of oven brush tops with butter. Serve with Lyles Golden Syrup or as is. I hope you enjoy!!!.

Perfect for slathering with butter, honey, jams, or covering with a spoonful of sausage gravy. Southern Biscuits are the quintessential bread of the south! It was not a meal without them. So over the years, I have tried many and I do mean many, recipes for them both. Biscuits are a staple in Southern kitchens—when you need to round out any menu, a biscuit will do the trick.