The Best Biscuits Ever
jamiegeller.com · 2014 · 6 Servings
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More leavening than 94% of recipes and less fat than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 94% of recipes: 8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
- Less fat than 91% of recipes: 22% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%, about half as much.
- More buttermilk than 83% of recipes: 98% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- No sugar at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 3 to 7.6% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (7)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 4 teaspoon baking powder≈ 18 g
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 3/4 teaspoon salt≈ 4.5 g
- 2 tablespoons butter≈ 28 g
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil≈ 27 g
- 1 cups plain kefir≈ 245 g
flour 250 gbatter 575 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.
- Fat22% · 8th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk98% · 84th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening8% · 96th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar0% · 15th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1.8% · 58th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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