Recipe: Lemon-lime soda biscuits

This Pinterest popular recipe boasts just four ingredients - Bisquick, sour cream, butter and lemon-lime soda such as 7 Up, Sprite or Sierra Mist.

But the recipe did have one other ingredient that I don't usually have on hand - Bisquick. For a variety of reasons, but mostly because I like to make things from scratch and find it's cheaper to do so, I don't get Bisquick anymore. Instead, I use a homemade version of the baking mix, which I find is a lot tastier.

Still, I got a little lazy and wondered if somebody else out there hadn't turned this semi-homemade recipe into a fully homemade one. Thankfully, Sprinkled with Flour had done the math for me, working out the correct quantities of flour and other ingredients to come up with the right amount of homemade Bisquick for the recipe.

I did substitute butter for the vegetable shortening in the original recipe. Because butter has less fat than shortening, I added a bit more butter to the recipe.

1/4 cup melted butter

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Melt the 1/4 cup butter in a round cake pan or nine-inch baking pan. You can just put the pan with the butter in the oven while it's preheating.

Mix together the dry ingredients. Cut in the butter until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Add in the sour cream, then the soda. Mix it until it's just combined. You don't want to handle the dough too much.

Put some flour on a cutting board or table. Gently shape the dough into a ball and then, again, gently, flatten it out. Cut out eight to nine biscuits.

Place the biscuits in the pan with the melted butter. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes. Serve hot.