Sitti's Biscuits

Sitti’s Buttermilk Biscuits:

  This recipe has not been written down until now! It has always been passed down by experience through the generations.

Ingredients:

4½ cups self-rising flour

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

2 cups buttermilk

Butter

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 425˚F. Pour 3 cups of self-rising flour into a medium bowl. Pour vegetable oil into the flour, and thoroughly combine until the flour holds its form when you squeeze it. Add buttermilk into flour and oil mixture; combine. Pour 1½ cups flour onto a flat surface, and spread out a little. Dump the sticky dough onto flour, and fold the flour into the dough until no longer sticky and can form a dough ball. Roll out dough to about ¼ inch for thin biscuits, or ½ inch for thicker biscuits. Cut biscuits out of dough about 2 inches wide. Place biscuits side by side into a cast-iron skillet. A cast-iron skillet is the key! Roll extra dough into a ball and repeat until all dough is used. Place a very small chip of butter on top of each one, and bake for 20-25 minutes. 12 biscuits fit in one medium-sized skillet. Batch makes 20.