Baking Powder Biscuit Deluxe

2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbs sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg, unbeaten
2/3 cup milk

Sift flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cream of tartar into bowl. Add the shortening to the flour mixture and blend together until it has a cornmeal consistency. Pour milk into flour mixture slowly. Add egg and stir to stiff dough. Knead five times. Cut with 1 1/2" cutter. Bake on cookie sheet for 10 to 15 min. at 450 degrees.

+You don't always have to cut the biscuit round if you don't have a biscuit cutter you can cut them with your pizza cutter or a knife all works.

I got this recipe from a friend Denise Holyoak. She got it out of a cattleman's wife cookbook out of Wyoming.