Jelly Biscuits

This recipe is a childhood favorite of mine! I love them because they are not intensely sweet like a cookie, but, like they're called, more of a biscuit with the sweetness in the jelly. Hope you enjoy!

Makes 18 Biscuits

•       2 cups flour
•       4 teaspoons baking powder
•       2 tablespoons sugar
•       ½ teaspoon salt
•       ½ cup shortening
•       ¾ cup milk
•       ½ cup jam/jelly (you don't actually have to measure this out, but can just spoon it into the center of the biscuits)

Sift together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt into mixing bowl. Add shortening and use a pastry cutter or fork to blend into a coarse meal. Add milk and blend with fork till the mixture becomes a soft dough ball. Prepare the rolling area with flour. Knead dough 12 times, and then roll dough out to ¼ inch thick. Use larger cookie cutter to cut circles, move half to cookie sheet about 1 inch apart.  Cut smaller circle in remaining circles (I like to make hearts!), put these rings on top of circles on cookie sheet. Put a teaspoon or so of jelly in the middle. Bake at 425 degrees for 12-15 minutes.

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