Buttermilk Biscuits with Maple and Sea Salt
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2014 · 6-8 biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More sugar than 92% of recipes and more salt than 94%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 92% of recipes: 12% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about 3.5 times as much.
- More salt than 94% of recipes: 2.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
- Less leavening than 81% of recipes: 3.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
Ingredients (9)
- 3 cups (384 g) all-purpose flour, plus more for your work surface384 g
- 3 tablespoons (44 g) sugar44 g
- 1 tablespoon (13 g) baking powder13 g
- 1.5 teaspoon sea salt or 2 teaspoons kosher salt (10 g), see notes above10 g
- ½ teaspoon (2 g) baking soda2 g
- 12 tablespoons (170 g) cold unsalted butter, diced, plus more for serving170 g
- 1¼ cups (330 g) cold buttermilk330 g
- pure maple syrup, for rubbing the biscuitsn/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- nice sea salt or coarse freshly ground black pepper for sprinklingn/a
flour 384 gbatter 953 g
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 321 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Fat44% · 57th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk86% · 54th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening3.9% · 17th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar12% · 93rd percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt2.6% · 95th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 15 to 20 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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