Dad’s Buttermilk Biscuits
Joy the Baker · joythebaker.com · 2009 · 9 / about 9 biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Less buttermilk than 91% of recipes and more sugar than 77%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less buttermilk than 91% of recipes: 49% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- More sugar than 77% of recipes: 6.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about twice as much.
Ingredients (9)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 2 tablespoons sugar≈ 25 g
- 4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 21 g
- 3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar≈ 2.3 g
- 3/4 teaspoon salt≈ 4.5 g
- 1/2 cup shortening, cold and cut into cubes≈ 103 g
- 1/4 cup butter, cold and cut into cubes≈ 57 g
- 1 egg, beaten≈ 50 g
- 3/4 cup buttermilk, cold≈ 183 g
flour 375 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.
- Fat43% · 55th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk49% · 6th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening5.5% · 63rd percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar6.7% · 79th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1.2% · 28th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 12 to 15 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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