Easy Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe
Julianne Dell · beyondfrosting.com · 2022 · 10-12
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Less salt than 95% of recipes and less buttermilk than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 95% of recipes: 0.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about half as much.
- Less buttermilk than 88% of recipes: 58% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- More leavening than 88% of recipes: 6.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
- No sugar at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 3 to 7.6% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (7)
- 3 ½ cups (420 g) all-purpose flour420 g
- 7 teaspoons (26g) baking powder26 g
- ½ tsp baking soda≈ 3 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ½ cup(113g) unsalted butter, cold113 g
- ¼ cup(48g) vegetable shortening, cold48 g
- 1 cup(236ml) + (1-2 tbsp as needed) buttermilk, cold≈ 243 g
flour 420 gbatter 856 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.
- Fat38% · 45th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk58% · 11th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening6.9% · 89th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar0% · 15th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt0.7% · 4th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 425°F
- Time
- 12 to 18 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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