Cathead Biscuits
Food Network · foodnetwork.com · 2016 · 4 large biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Less salt than 99% of recipes and no sugar, unlike 69%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 99% of recipes: 0.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, under a third as much.
- No sugar at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 3 to 7.6% of the flour weight).
- Buttermilk in the middle half of recipes: 98% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Ingredients (6)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling≈ 250 g
- 3 teaspoons baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 1 g
- 3 tablespoons vegetable shortening≈ 38 g
- 5 tablespoons cold, unsalted butter, cubed≈ 71 g
- 1 cup buttermilk≈ 244 g
flour 250 gbatter 618 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.
- Fat44% · 57th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk98% · 75th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening5.5% · 63rd percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar0% · 15th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt0.4% · 1st percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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