The Best Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits
Mel · melskitchencafe.com · 2013 · 12 biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
No sugar, unlike 69% of recipes and more leavening than 81%.
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 81% of recipes: 6.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
- Buttermilk in the middle half of recipes: 98% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Ingredients (6)
- 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (plus more for dusting)≈ 375 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder≈ 21 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 9 tablespoons very cold butter cut into pieces≈ 128 g
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk (more or less )≈ 366 g
flour 375 gbatter 899 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.
- Fat34% · 31st percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk98% · 75th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening6.3% · 83rd percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar0% · 15th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1.6% · 51st percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 10 to 12 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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