SUCCESS This morning I used yogurt, not skim, like some others have mentioned instead of milk, the biscuits were not as crummy as before. I did not slice/cut them but they held up for the B&G. Since my oven seems to run hotter than temp shown , I set it at 260* , after 12 minutes I turned oven off and left the biscuits in the oven for about 5 minutes longer.

Tomorrow morning it will be waffles, yum, yum in my tum with the grade B syrup. Maybe blueberries?

Thank you to everyone who post suggestion/comments.

I used vegan butter rather than shortening. And I added a splash of white vinegar to given that lovely buttermilk flavor to the milk. Maybe that was a mistake? I followed instructions but was disappointed in the amount the recipe made. I used it to form 4 drop biscuits for biscuits and gravy. They took almost 20minutes to bake and even then the tops were hardly what I would call brown but the bottoms were browning. Removed from oven. Cooled on sheet 5 minutes. Removed from sheet and discovered they are very crumbly. Couldn't split for biscuits. So just put gravy over the top. Aside for disappointment in size and the crumble factor they tasted surprisingly just like I remember B&G tasting. Taste is a solid 5. Spot on flavor. Texture is a paltry 3. 3 because they were not in the least bit gritty and were somewhat fluffy but they spread way out during baking and refused to brown properly.