Quick Sticky Biscuits
leitesculinaria.com · 2007 · 12 servings
Against 321 biscuit recipes
No sugar, unlike 69% of recipes and more leavening than 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No sugar at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 3 to 7.6% of the flour weight).
- More leavening than 76% of recipes: 6.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
Ingredients (13)
- 4 cups bleached all-purpose flour≈ 500 g
- 2 tablespoons baking powder≈ 28 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt≈ 9 g
- 2 sticks very cold or frozen unsalted butter (cut into 16 pieces)≈ 226 g
- 1 1/2 to 2 cups cold buttermilk ((either low-fat or full-fat))≈ 427 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar≈ 220 g
- 1/2 cup dark corn syrup≈ 164 g
- 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter≈ 170 g
- 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans or walnuts (toasted)≈ 180 g
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar≈ 100 g
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
- 1 stick unsalted butter (melted)≈ 113 g
flour 500 gbatter 1193 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.
- Fat45% · 60th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk85% · 52nd percentile · median 84%
- Leavening6.1% · 79th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar0% · 15th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1.8% · 58th 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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