Mouth-watering Biscuits

Diva’s Memories of Recipes Biscuits
Inspiration:  Rutz Family cookbook, by Ruth Hopkins
Ingredients: 2 cups Flour 1/2 tsp cream of tartar 2 tbsp sugar 2/3 cup milk 4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup butter or margarine 1 egg	Instructions: Mix dry ingredients.  Add butter and mix until consistency of cornmeal.  Add milk and beaten egg.  Put out on counter and knead 5 times.  Roll or pat out to 1/2 inch thick.  Cut with a biscuit cutter and water glass.  Put on greased baking sheet. Bake at 450 degrees for 12-15 mins.
Variation:  Great with my Diva's gravy.

Diva's Grandma Sarah's Viennese Kipfel rolls and a loving memory of her

Diva’s Memories of Recipes Viennese Kipfel rolls
Inspiration:  This recipe was tucked into one of my Grandma Sarah's cookbooks.  They are like croissants rolls and yummy.  I love when you reach for her cookbooks and little memories of her fall out.  It's like she is saying hello my little darling, I Love you and miss you.  I touch it and smile and say I Love you and miss you too Grandma:)  I would bake with her when I would visit, which was often and she would let me make shapes.  When I was 7, I made a shape of a kitten.  The day after she passed I walked into her house and sitting on the kitchen table was that little kitten on one of her pretty plates, wrapped with cellophane.  She passed when I was 36 and she had kept that little kitten all those years.  It is still a mystery to me why she had it sitting on her kitchen table that day.  I had not seen it for years.  it Was one of those goose bump moments.  I looked at my mom and smiled... She had no idea what it was or what it was doing there either.  Grandma reached out... i know she did, just like she always had to comfort & love me.  I did her eulogy at the service and I made a lot of the family smile, just as she would have wanted.  I love you Grandma.
Ingredients: 1 pkg active dry yeast 1/4 cup warm water (105 degrees F) 1/2 cup warm milk 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup butter or margarine 3 TB sugar 3 egg yolks 2~1/2 cups flour (approx)	Instructions: Sprinkle yeast over warm water.  Let stand 5 mins.  Stir until dissolved.  Add to warm milk in a large bowl.  Add salt.  Cream butter to consistency of mayonnaise.  Add sugar slowly, continuing to cream.  Add egg yolks, one at a time.  Add flour alternately with yeast mixture; using enough flour to make a soft dough.  Turn out on to a floured board.  Knead until smooth and elastic.  Place dough in a greased bowl.  Turn to bring greased side up.  Cover and let stand in a warm place (80 degrees F) until dough has doubled.  Punch down.    Divide dough in half and roll out to 1/8 inch thickness.  Cut into 6 inch squares, then cut those into two triangles.  Roll up each triangle; beginning with broad side and folding tip over.  Curve into crescent shape.  Repeat with other half of dough.  Place on well-greased baking sheets.  Cover and let rise in a warm place for 2 hours.  Brush with 1 egg white beaten slightly with 2 TB milk.  Bake at 350 degrees F for about 20 minutes until golden brown.
Variation:  Yields 24 rolls

Diva's Refrigerator Biscuit Donuts

Diva’s Memories of Recipes Refrigerator Biscuit Donuts
Inspiration:  I started making these for my kids when they we very little.  It was a Sunday morning tradition.
Ingredients: 1 can refrigerator biscuits oil cinnamon and sugar powdered sugar icing sprinkles	Instructions: Heat oil in fryer or skillet.  Be very careful, do not leave it unattended to prevent burning or fires. Put biscuits on counter and cut a hole in the center.  I have used a turkey baster with the bulb taken off.  Can also use the end of an empty water bottle. Fry on each side til golden brown.  Approx a couple minutes each side. Put on paper towel or dip in sugar's immediately.
Variation: Can be decorated or top to your taste.  Be creative.