Fluffy Overnight Biscuits

Makes 12 biscuits

Ingredients:

2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons shortening or lard
1 cup buttermilk, chilled

Directions:
Make sure all of your ingredients are really cold.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.

Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick square. Use a knife and cut the dough into 12 squares. Place on the cookie sheet and put in the oven.

Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.

To make these overnight biscuits, combine the dry ingredients, butter, and shortening in a bowl and put in the refrigerator. In the morning add the buttermilk and finish making them.