Blue Water Navy

Marcella has already received this one, but for yall that dont have it, here it is..(yall have even gotten me talking southern on here now)

now this is exactly the way i posted it to the emagazine

Some mornings when you get up, nothing, and I mean nothing, sounds as good as a big ole country breakfast. Now, you could start off with Southern Fried chicken, sausage gravy, sausage, bacon, fried potatoes and onions, and several fried eggs, but you are gonna have to have some cathead biscuits, to pour the gravy over, sop up the egg yolks, or just to sop up some sorghum and butter. (that would be molasses to you Yankees) I can remember us kids having to nail our plates to the table, to keep them from skeetering off onto the floor. It didn’t take real long, to wear them nail heads off, as often as Mother made them cathead biscuits.

PAPAW’S CATHEAD BISCUITS
They're called "cathead biscuits" because they are about the size of a cat's head. My Biscuit Cutter: cut the top and bottom out of a 9 oz. Tuna Can.

Yields 8

4 cups Self-rising flour
½ cup of (butter flavored ... optional) Crisco shortening
½ teaspoon of Baking Soda
1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups buttermilk (depends upon humidity)
¼ cup all purpose flour ( to flour the wax paper cutting board)
2 feet wax paper
can of Pam spray
Preheat oven to 500 degrees F.
Lightly spray a large cookie sheet with Pam shortening spray.
On a counter top, wet the top with a sponge or rag. Place the wax paper on the wet counter top. Smooth it out. The water will keep it in place. Smooth the ¼ cup of all purpose flour onto the wax paper. Coat the paper and move the excess flour to one side.
Mix flour, baking powder (if needed) and baking soda, by hand in a bowl.
Using your finger tips, blend in the shortening until the flour looks like cornmeal.
Make a well in the flour and pour in the buttermilk slowly as you mix by hand or with a fork. Work quickly until you have one ball of dough. Move the ball of dough to your wax paper.
Using the palms of your hands, press out and fold the dough over itself 3 times. Press the dough out about 3/4 inch high. Cut straight down with the biscuit cutter. Place on non-stick cookie sheet sprayed with Pam. Put the biscuits close to each other, on the cookie sheet, as you want them to go up, not out. Let the biscuits rest (and rise) at room temperature on the counter for 10 minutes. Place in preheated 450 degree F. oven for 20 minutes or until tops are golden brown. Remove from oven and brush tops with melted butter.
You should have 8 biscuits (3.25 inches in diameter) and a palm ball biscuit using the last of the dough.