Easy Butter Biscuits
africanbites.com · 2024 · 8
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More fat than 89% of recipes and more salt than 95%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 89% of recipes: 56% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- More salt than 95% of recipes: 3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
- More sugar than 83% of recipes: 8.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about 2.5 times as much.
Ingredients (6)
- 2½ cup (300g) all-purpose flour300 g
- 1 tablespoon (15g) baking powder15 g
- 2 tablespoons (25g) granulated sugar25 g
- 1½ teaspoon (9g) salt9 g
- 12 tablespoons (168g) very cold unsalted butter, (reserve ¼ cup for brushing)168 g
- 1 cup (237ml) buttermilk (or whole milk)≈ 244 g
flour 300 gbatter 761 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.
- Fat56% · 90th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk81% · 47th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening5% · 49th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar8.3% · 84th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt3% · 96th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 425°F
- Time
- 10 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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