Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2021 · 9 biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More fat than 96% of recipes and less leavening than 97%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 96% of recipes: 64% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less leavening than 97% of recipes: 2.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%, about half as much.
- More salt than 95% of recipes: 2.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
- More sugar than 81% of recipes: 7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about twice as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 2.75 cups (355 g) all-purpose flour355 g
- 2 teaspoons (9 g) baking powder9 g
- 2 teaspoons (9 g) sugar9 g
- 1.5 teaspoons sea salt or 2 teaspoons kosher salt (10 g)10 g
- 16 tablespoons (226 g) cold cubed butter, salted or unsalted226 g
- 1 to 1.25 cups buttermilk (240 to 300 g), see notes above300 g
- 2 tablespoons (32 g) buttermilk32 g
- 1 tablespoon (16 g) turbinado sugar, optional16 g
flour 355 gbatter 957 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.
- Fat64% · 96th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk94% · 64th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening2.5% · 3rd percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar7% · 82nd percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt2.8% · 95th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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