BEST Buttermilk Biscuits
daringgourmet.com · 2020 · 6 biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Less fat than 85% of recipes and more leavening than 86%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 85% of recipes: 27% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- More leavening than 86% of recipes: 6.7% 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).
- More salt than 75% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1/3 cup leaf lard (,very cold)≈ 68 g
- How To Render Your Own Lard (it's easy and cheap!) ((click link for recipe))n/a
- 1 cup very cold buttermilk≈ 244 g
- Fresh herbs or shredded cheese ((optional))n/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Melted butter for brushingn/a
flour 250 gbatter 585 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.
- Fat27% · 14th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk98% · 75th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening6.7% · 87th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar0% · 15th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt2.4% · 84th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 12 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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