What Are Some of Your Good Bread Recipes?

What are some of your good Bread Recipes? If you like Biscuits, then you will love this one.
Gary/Louisville

Here's a recipe for Cat Head Biscuits:

2 cups self rising flour
1 cup buttermilk
a lump of solid shortening the size of a large walnut.

This can be real butter, margarine, lard or solid vegetable shortening. This has to be at room temperature to blend smoothly into the dough.
In a large mixing bowl, push the flour to the sides of the bowl to form a depression in the center. Place the shortening and a little of the milk in the center and start stirring with the tips of your fingers. When the shortening is blended, add the rest of the milk, mixing just until blended and the dough forms a ball. The dough will be a little on the moist side. Dust just enough flour on the ball to handle. Do not handle the dough any more than you have to - it makes the biscuits tough. Putting some extra flour on your table or counter, begin to knead just a bit until you can handle the dough a little better.

Make it smooth, then gather up a piece on the end and place it in the palm of your hand while at the same time tightening your thumb and forefinger around a piece of dough about the size you wish your biscuit to be before you pat it out. The less you handle it and the more moist the dough, the better your biscuits will be. Start pinching off big pieces of dough and rolling them in the palm of your hand. Make them round in your palm and place them in the pan and flaten then with the back of your knuckles a bit.
The pan can be either glass or metal, but be sure it is small enough so that the biscuits are all close together, touching - Remember, you want the biscuits to rise up, not out to the side. Another reason for this is that when the biscuits bake with their sides touching, you can pull them apart easily, but those sides will be very soft and tender, not hard and brown. This is a very important part of making good biscuits.

Bake in a hot oven 400 degrees just until the biscuits are light brown, but you are sure the dough is done through and through. No one likes a biscuit that is still doughy, but neither does anyone like a hard crust either!
You can brush melted butter on the tops of the biscuits when they are done, or before you place them in the oven. This is also a hint to keep the biscuits soft and moist. This recipe will make around 8 to 10 biscuits, depending on the size of your pinches.