Easy Biscuits (Vegan)

As the name intimates...these are easy biscuits. You probably have the ingredients lying around the house (well, maybe just in the kitchen cupboards) and it doesn't require any sort of cooking finesse!

This is from a book that I unfortunately don't have the title to...sorry, folks! I borrowed it from a friend and made a few photocopies but forgot to write down the name...

Easy Biscuits:
2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 margarine or vegetable shortening (I use vegan butter sticks) at room temperature
3/4 to 1 cup sour soy milk (soy milk + 1 tsp vinegar)

1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.

2. In a large bowl, sift (yes...get out that sifter!!) together the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the margarine and sour milk and mix together gently until "just mixed." (If you want, you can cut in the margarine and sour milk by holding to knifes together until is fairly well mixed...or just get your hands dirty!)

3. Spoon into lighlty oiled muffin tins or roll out and cut with biscuit/cookie cutters and place on a lightly oiled cookie sheet. If you are going for the roll out method, spread some flour on the surface (and on your rolling pin) and roll the dough until it is about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick, the biscuits will rise during cooking. If you don't have cookie cutters, take a butter knife and you can make all sorts of fantastical and fun shapes for your biscuits! If spooning into the muffin tins, there should be enough to fill 6 tins (not full) to make 6 biscuits.

4. Bake for 12-18 minutes.

You can slather the tops with butter and jam or dip these into a sumptious soup. Or serve at a dinner party with a nice dip and vegetables.