Easy Buttermilk Biscuits
Modern Honey® - www.modernhoney.com · modernhoney.com · 2026 · 8
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More fat than 92% of recipes and less leavening than 86%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 92% of recipes: 61% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less leavening than 86% of recipes: 3.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
- More salt than 75% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
- More sugar than 77% of recipes: 6.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about twice as much.
Ingredients (7)
- 3 cups Flour≈ 375 g
- 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder≈ 14 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Salt ((use 2 teaspoons if using unsalted butter))≈ 9 g
- 2 Tablespoons Sugar≈ 25 g
- 1 cup Cold Butter ((grated))≈ 227 g
- 1 cup + 2 Tablespoons Buttermilk≈ 275 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- (Brush with egg wash, buttermilk, or melted butter)n/a
flour 375 gbatter 924 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.
- Fat61% · 93rd percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk73% · 33rd percentile · median 84%
- Leavening3.7% · 12th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar6.7% · 79th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt2.4% · 84th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 18 to 22 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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