Quick Dough Recipe for Homemade Weiner Wraps ("Snuggly dogs") or Biscuits

This recipe's from a cookbook put together about twenty years ago by operating room nurses, to raise money for University Hospital in London, Ontario. You can buy refrigerated dough to make weiner wraps, but making them from scratch with your kids is more fun.

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 4 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1/3 cup cold butter or margarine
• 3/4 cup cold milk
• 12 cooked weiners or sausages

1. Mix together flour, baking powder and salt.
2. Cut in butter till crumbly.
3. Stir in milk.
4. Continue to stir with a fork till dough forms a ball.
5. Add a little more milk if needed to form a soft dough.
6. Knead 10 times on a lightly floured surface.
7. Roll dough 1/4 inch thick. Cut into 12 rectangles.
8. Heat weiners or cook sausages. Wipe dry.
9. Place 1 weiner or sausage on each dough rectangle.
10. If desired, dab mustard along the side of each weiner or roll a cheese slice around the meat.
11. Enclose meat in dough.
12. Dampen edges of dough to seal.
13. Arrange on greased baking sheet.
14. Bake in preheated 425 degree F oven 10 minutes or till brown. Serve immediately (as soon as cool enough to eat.)

Use the Same Recipe to Make Biscuits:

1. Before cutting the butter into the flour mixture, stir in 1-3 tbsp of sugar (optional, to your taste).
2. Finish making the dough as in the above recipe, roll out to 1/4 inch thick, cut dough in 12 circles with a cookie cutter or the edge of a teacup.
3. Score the circles lightly with a knife and brush with melted butter.
4.  Arrange on a greased baking sheet.
5.  Bake at 425 degrees F for 8-10 minutes or until biscuits rise and are turning golden.
6.  Serve warm with jam.