Daddy's Savory Tomato Biscuits

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Servings: 18
Yield: 18 servings

Description

When you use vegetable juice cocktail in a simple, fast biscuit instead of milk, you'll get a rosy, tender, savory treat.

Ingredients

3 cups self-rising flour
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon white sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup tomato-vegetable juice cocktail

Directions

1 Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
2 Stir the flour, baking soda, salt, and sugar together in a bowl, and cut in the shortening with a pastry cutter until the mixture looks like crumbs. Mix in the vegetable juice cocktail just until moist, and turn out onto a well-floured work surface. Gently knead several times just until dough holds together, roll out to 1/2-inch thick, and cut into rounds with a biscuit cutter. Place the biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet.
3 Bake in the preheated oven until risen and lightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes.