Nashville House Fried Biscuits

Ingredients

• 1 quart milk
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 2/3 packages dry yeast or 1/6 cup yeast
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 6 teaspoons salt
• 7 to 9 cups flour
  

Instructions

1. Add yeast to warm water.
2. Add other ingredients and let dough rise.
3. Work dough into biscuits and drop into hot fat *.
4. Serve with apple butter.

Yield: about 7 dozen biscuits

Biscuits can be frozen individually and stored in plastic bags. When you work them up, don't let the biscuits rise too high.

* The fat should be slightly hotter than 350 degrees F. If fat is too hot, the biscuits will be soggy in the center.

Source: Nashville House Restaurant - Nashville, Indiana