Angel Biscuits
momontimeout.com · 2021 · 10
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Less leavening than 97% of recipes and more sugar than 93%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less leavening than 97% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%, about half as much.
- More sugar than 93% of recipes: 12% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about 3.5 times as much.
- More fat than 78% of recipes: 48% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (10)
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour (spooned and leveled)≈ 313 g
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar≈ 38 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 4 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 2 ¼ teaspoons instant yeast (1 packet)≈ 7 g
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (cut into small pieces)≈ 57 g
- ¼ cup shortening (cold, cut into pieces, butter flavored preferred)≈ 51 g
- 1 cup buttermilk≈ 244 g
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter (melted, for brushing on biscuits)≈ 43 g
flour 313 gbatter 763 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.
- Fat48% · 79th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk78% · 43rd percentile · median 84%
- Leavening2.4% · 2nd percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar12% · 94th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1.3% · 40th 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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