michellej Recipe ‹ Daddy's Savory Tomato Biscuits

My father was a man that could take an unstocked kitchen and make a gourmet meal. I watched him make these biscuits when we were out of milk. Just amazing!

Ingredients

• 3 cups self-rising flour
• ⅓ teaspoon baking soda
• ⅓ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon white sugar
• ½ cup shortening
• 1 cup tomato-vegetable juice cocktail

Cooking Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
2. Stir the flour, baking soda, salt, and sugar together in a bowl, and cut in the shortening with a pastry cutter until the mixture looks like crumbs. Mix in the vegetable juice cocktail just until moist, and turn out onto a well-floured work surface. Gently knead several times just until dough holds together, roll out to 1/2-inch thick, and cut into rounds with a biscuit cutter. Place the biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet.
3. Bake in the preheated oven until risen and lightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

• calories127.8
• carbohydrateContent16.2 g
• fatContent5.9 g
• fiberContent0.7 g
• proteinContent2.2 g
• saturatedFatContent1.5 g
• sodiumContent323.9 mg
• sugarContent0.7 g