Angel Biscuits
12tomatoes.com · Serves 8
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Less leavening than 97% of recipes and less salt than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less leavening than 97% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%, about half as much.
- Less salt than 85% of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
- More sugar than 82% of recipes: 8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about 2.5 times as much.
Ingredients (12)
- 2 packages (4 1/2 teaspoons) active yeast≈ 14 g
- 3 tablespoons warm water (no more than 120°F)≈ 44 g
- 5 cups all-purpose flour≈ 625 g
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar≈ 50 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt≈ 6 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1/2 cup butter, chilled≈ 114 g
- 1/2 cup shortening, chilled≈ 103 g
- 2 cups buttermilk≈ 488 g
- 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream≈ 30 g
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted≈ 43 g
flour 625 gbatter 1531 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 321 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Fat41% · 53rd percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk90% · 61st percentile · median 84%
- Leavening2.4% · 2nd percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar8% · 83rd percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1% · 13th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 45 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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