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Better Homes & Gardens calls this Biscuits Supreme

2 cups/475ml All-Purpose Flour
4 tsp/20ml Baking Powder
2 tsp/10ml Sugar
1/2 tsp/2.5ml Cream of Tartar
1/2 tsp/2.5ml Salt
1/2 cup vegetable Shortening (Crisco or other brand)
2/3 cup/160ml Milk

1. Stir together Flour, Baking Powder, Sugar, Cream of Tartar, Salt. Cut in Shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
2. Make a well in the center, add Milk all at once. Stir just until dough clings together. Knead dough gently on lightly floured surface for 10-12 strokes. Roll out or pat out to 1/2" (1cm) thickness, cut with biscuit/cookie cutter or cut into squares 5-6cm on a side with a knife. It's useful to dip cookie cutter into flour between cuts so biscuits release easily.
3. Transfer biscuits onto an ungreased baking sheet, bake at 450 F for 10-12 minutes until golden on top. Serve warm. 10-12 biscuits.

Buttermilk Biscuits

Prepare Biscuits as above, but stir in 1/4 tsp/1ml+ Baking Soda into the flour mixture and substitute 3/4 cup/180ml buttermilk for the milk. If you don't have buttermilk, sour ordinary milk with 5ml vinegar to 237ml milk.

As you can see, this one works by combining acid with baking soda to leaven, rather than the double action of baking powder.

Sour Cream Biscuits

Another substitution. Prepare biscuits as above, substituting 1 cup/237ml Sour Cream and only 2 TBSP/30ml Milk. Not too different from Buttermilk Biscuits.