Ingredients

• 2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1 tsp. Salt
• 2 tsp. Baking Powder
• 1 Garlic Clove, Minced
• 1/2 C. Butter (no substitutes)
• 1/2 C. Cheddar Cheese
• 2/3 C. Milk

Directions

1. Mix the flour, salt, baking powder and garlic in a large bowl.

2. Cut 5 1/2 Tbsp. of the butter in chunks and add it to the flour mixture and cut it in with a pastry cutter or fork until the mixture has relatively small pieces of butter throughout.

3. Add thecheese and mix, then the milk and mix only until combined

4. (over-working the mixture will lead to tough biscuits). If

5. mixture is sticky, add a little flour. Shape into biscuits a

6. couple inches wide and an inch or so tall with your hands and

7. place on the baking sheet that you roasted the chicken

8. & vegetables on (don’t clean it… the drippings add flavor to

9. the biscuits). Bake in a 425 degrees F oven for about 12 minutes

10. until bottoms are golden brown. Melt the remaining 2 1/2 Tbsp.

11. butter and drizzle over the biscuits. Makes 9-12 biscuits

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