This quick bread is not made from a batter but from a dough leavened with baking powder or baking soda. Solid fat, such as butter, margarine or shortening, is cut into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Then the combined liquid ingredients are stirred in until the mixture clings together. Biscuit doughs require brief kneading to bring the dough together so it can be shaped (see Bread, Yeast, for technique). Too much kneading will make the biscuits mealy and tough.