Brian Hart Hoffman's Famous Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe
Brian Hart Hoffman · biggerbolderbaking.com · 2022 · 12 Biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More fat than 96% of recipes and less buttermilk than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 96% of recipes: 65% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less buttermilk than 90% of recipes: 55% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- Less leavening than 78% of recipes: 4.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
- More sugar than 76% of recipes: 5.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%.
Ingredients (11)
- 1 ¾ cups (220 grams) all-purpose flour220 g
- 1 ¾ cups (220 grams) cake flour220 g
- 2 tablespoons (24 grams) granulated sugar24 g
- 1 tablespoon (15 grams) baking powder15 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda ((optional, for extra rise) )≈ 3 g
- 1 tablespoon (9 grams) kosher salt9 g
- 1 ¼ cups (284 grams) cold unsalted butter, cubed284 g
- 1 cup (240 grams) cold whole buttermilk240 g
- 1 large egg (50 grams) (, lightly beaten)50 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Flaked sea salt (, for sprinkling)n/a
- Softened butter and honey (, to serve)n/a
flour 440 gbatter 1065 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.
- Fat65% · 97th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk55% · 10th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening4.1% · 21st percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar5.5% · 76th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt2% · 68th 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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