Flaky Homemade Biscuits
Sonja Overhiser · acouplecooks.com · 2023 · 8
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Close to the middle of 321 biscuit recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Fat in the middle half of recipes: 34% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%.
Ingredients (8)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 teaspoon powdered sugar≈ 2.5 g
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 4 g
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter≈ 85 g
- 3/4 cup cold buttermilk, plus more for brushing≈ 183 g
- Serve with Hot Honeyn/a
flour 250 gbatter 537 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.
- Fat34% · 31st percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk73% · 33rd percentile · median 84%
- Leavening4.9% · 41st percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar1% · 31st percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1.6% · 51st percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 13 to 16 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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