Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits
Baker Bettie · bakerbettie.com · 2018 · 8
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More sugar than 90% of recipes and more salt than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 90% of recipes: 10% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about 3 times as much.
- More salt than 91% of recipes: 2.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
- More buttermilk than 84% of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Ingredients (7)
- 240 grams (2 cups) all-purpose flour240 g
- 10 grams (1 tablespoon) baking powder10 g
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 6 grams (1 ¼ teaspoons) kosher salt6 g
- 25 grams (2 tablespoons) granulated sugar, optional25 g
- 85 grams (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, lard, or shortening, cold85 g
- 240 grams (1 cup, 240 milliliters) buttermilk, cold, *see note for substitution240 g
flour 240 gbatter 608 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.
- Fat35% · 36th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk100% · 85th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening4.8% · 33rd percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar10% · 91st percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt2.5% · 93rd percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 10 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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