"I can SO vividly remember eating those wonderful light, fluffy biscuits!"
2 cups self-rising flour
& cup vegetable oil
1 ⅕ teaspoons baking powder
& to 1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoons sugar
melted margarine (optional)
Combine flour, baking powder and sugar in a mixing bowl; stir together, raking flour up sides of bowl to form a hole. Pour buttermilk and oil into hole and gently stir flour into liquids.
Mix until flour is completely blended with liquids. Dough should be moist but not sticky. Turn dough out onto floured surface and knead several times. Roll out dough to &-inch thickness and cut with biscuit cutter. Knead remaining dough 2 or 3 times and repeat procedure until all dough is used.
Bake biscuits in lightly greased cast iron skillet at 450° until lightly browned. Brush with margarine, if desired.
