Categories: Breakfast, bread, family fav

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• rounded 1/3 cup sugar
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (cut salt to 1/4 teaspoon if using salted butter)
• 2 tablespoons shortening
• 3/4 cup cream
• 1 egg
• Handful dried currants or dried cranberries, blackberries, or other fruit

Directions

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Mix well. Cut in butter and shortening. In a separate bowl, combine cream with beaten egg then add to dry ingredients. Stir in fruit. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Roll dough out to about 3/4 to an inch and cut into biscuit size rounds. Bake for 15 minutes or until brown.

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