405 shortening recipes

Classic four-ingredient flaky pie dough with shortening and ice water. Makes two 9-inch crusts for double-crust pies, lattice tops, or freezer-stash backup. The base every home baker needs.

Flaky, buttery biscuits made with just three ingredients and ready in under 30 minutes, with crispy edges or pillowy-soft sides depending on how you space them.

Grandma's baking powder biscuits use five pantry ingredients to deliver tall, flaky biscuits with crisp golden tops and tender layers inside. Cut, drop, or buttermilk variations all baked in a hot oven for that signature lift. Old-school comfort, no fancy gear needed.

Classic grated potato pancakes (latkes) fried golden and crisp on the outside, tender on the inside. Onion, egg, and flour bind freshly grated potato into the original comfort-food fritter.

Love these biscuits! The texture was just wonderful, so flakey. So much better than those store-bought ones. This will be my go-to recipe for making biscuits.

Classic baking powder biscuits from scratch with just five pantry staples: flour, baking powder, salt, shortening and milk. Tender, flaky, and on the table in about 20 minutes. The plain, reliable biscuit recipe to memorize.

Classic homemade baking powder biscuits with five ingredients and just 35 minutes from start to finish. Tender, flaky, fresh-baked breakfast biscuits that beat any tube or boxed version.

This is the easist one I have ever tried, and very delicious too. All my friends they love these biscuits. Thanks.

Flaky baking powder biscuits use the cold shortening cut-in method for tender layered biscuits. Six pantry ingredients and ready in 30 minutes for breakfast or dinner.

Classic homemade biscuits with a golden crust and tender crumb, easily customizable with whole wheat flour, sharp cheddar, or garlic powder for savory variations.

Classic chocolate whoopie pies with two soft cocoa cake rounds sandwiching a fluffy marshmallow buttercream filling. The Pennsylvania Dutch lunchbox favorite that freezes beautifully.

Mom's favourite cornmeal biscuits, rolled and cut Southern-style biscuits with yellow cornmeal for nutty crunch. Tender flaky bites perfect with jam, butter, or clotted cream.

Old-fashioned buttermilk biscuits with shortening and tangy buttermilk for a tender, flaky crumb. Six pantry ingredients, ready in 30 minutes, the kind grandma used to make.

Buttermilk biscuits with country milk gravy is the Southern breakfast that built a thousand mornings. Flaky, tall biscuits split open and smothered in peppery, pan-dripping gravy.

Sour milk waffles with whipped egg whites folded in for an airy crumb and a crackly crisp exterior. Baking soda meets soured milk for old-fashioned tang and lift, no baking powder required.

Cold lunch biscuits are sturdy, lightly sweetened lunchbox biscuits made with milk, shortening, and a stiff flour dough. Bake them once and they keep for weeks in a tin.