Best-Ever Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe
Gemma Stafford · biggerbolderbaking.com · 2018 · 15 Biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Less buttermilk than 85% of recipes and less salt than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less buttermilk than 85% of recipes: 61% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- Less salt than 85% of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
- No sugar at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 3 to 7.6% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (6)
- 4 cups (1lb 4oz/600g) all purpose flour600 g
- 2 tablespoons baking powder≈ 28 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 cup (8oz/240g) butter, frozen240 g
- 1 1/2 cup (12oz/340ml) buttermilk≈ 366 g
- 1 egg* (, beaten)≈ 50 g
flour 600 gbatter 1290 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.
- Fat40% · 48th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk61% · 14th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening4.6% · 31st percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar0% · 15th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1% · 13th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 25 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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