Combine flour baking powder,and sugar. Cut in shortening with pastry blender, knife, or fingers until only small balls remain the size of the end of your pinkie.
Add buttermilk and gently mix- don't stir. Pull dough from the bottom up. Mix just until most of the flour has been worked in.
Pat out portions of the dough onto a floured surface. Cut into biscuits with a floured biscuit cutter or a glass drinking cup. Place biscuits on a pan so that they do not touch one another.
Use aluminum pan for best results. I always cover my pan with parchment paper.
Bake in hot oven on 425° until biscuits are brown on top and the bottom.
Yield 60 biscuits
*Biscuits can be made up a head of time and frozen on pan. Take from freezer and bake immediately.
