Buttermilk Biscuits
King Arthur Test Kitchen · kingarthurbaking.com · 12 biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More buttermilk than 95% of recipes and less fat than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More buttermilk than 95% of recipes: 126% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- Less fat than 89% of recipes: 24% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less leavening than 85% of recipes: 3.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
Ingredients (6)
- 3 cups (360g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour360 g
- 1 teaspoon table salt≈ 6 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar≈ 13 g
- 6 tablespoons (85g) butter, at room temperature*85 g
- 1 cup to 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (227g to 255g) buttermilk or milk, cold*454 g
flour 360 gbatter 931 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.
- Fat24% · 11th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk126% · 95th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening3.8% · 14th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar3.5% · 57th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1.7% · 54th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 15 to 20 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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