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["Place the flour and shortening in a large bowl.", "Using a pastry cutter, a fork, or your fingers, mix the flour and shortening into pea-sized morsels.", "Add the milk to the flour and shortening mixture and combine, using a fork. Mix a minimum number of strokes, or for for about 15 seconds.", "Place the dough onto a hard surface sprinkled liberally with flour.", "Using floured hands, knead the dough a few times. Do not over-knead.", "Sprinkle the dough with flour and, using a rolling pin, roll it out to the desired thickness, thin for crispy biscuits and thick for more doughy biscuits.", "Use a cookie cutter cut out the biscuits and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet about 1 inch apart. Leave a 1 1/2"" margin near the edges of the pan on which to place the stickies. Keep the cookie cutter well-coated with flour to prevent sticking.", "To make stickies, ball up remaining dough left from biscuit cutting. Sprinkle with flour and roll into a very thin layer.", "Turn the dough over, flour it again, and roll it again. The resulting dough will be flatter and wider than the biscuit dough, about 13-15 inches in diameter.", "Place triangles of butter or margarine 1 to 1 1/2 inches apart on the dough.", "Sprinkle dough with sugar. Sprinkle ground cinnamon on top of the sugar.", "Roll up the dough jelly roll style and cut it into 3/4 inch slices.", "Place the stickies in the empty space around the edges of the cookie sheet.", "Bake at 450u00b0F for 12 to 13 minutes or until golden brown."]