Easy Buttermilk Drop Biscuits
completelydelicious.com · 2021 · 8 biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More leavening than 86% of recipes and more sugar than 82%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 86% of recipes: 6.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
- More sugar than 82% of recipes: 7.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Buttermilk in the middle half of recipes: 98% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Ingredients (12)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- ½ teaspoon coarse salt≈ 3 g
- 6 tablespoons cold salted butter (, cubed)≈ 85 g
- 1 cup cold buttermilk, plus additional for brushing≈ 244 g
- ½ cup shredded or crumbled cheese such as cheddar, swiss, parmesan or feta≈ 119 g
- ½ cup bulkier ingredients like scallions, crumbled bacon, nuts, dried fruit, or sliced jalapenos, etc≈ 60 g
- 1-2 tablespoons fresh chopped herbs ((or ½-1 dried herbs))≈ 22 g
- 1-2 cloves garlic (, minced)n/a
- ¼-½ teaspoon spices or seasoning such as cinnamon, black pepper, garlic powder, etc.≈ 1 g
- 1-2 tablespoons sugar (, if you want a sweeter biscuit)≈ 19 g
flour 250 gbatter 820 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.
- Fat34% · 31st percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk98% · 75th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening6.7% · 87th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar7.5% · 82nd percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1.2% · 28th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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