Perfect Homemade Biscuits
momontimeout.com · 2018 · 12
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Less salt than 90% of recipes and more sugar than 86%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 90% of recipes: 0.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about half as much.
- More sugar than 86% of recipes: 10% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about 3 times as much.
- Less buttermilk than 78% of recipes: 65% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Ingredients (8)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 3 tbsp sugar≈ 38 g
- 1/2 tsp salt≈ 3 g
- 4 tsp baking powder≈ 18 g
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar≈ 1.6 g
- 3/4 cup COLD butter≈ 170 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
- 1 cup whole milk≈ 244 g
flour 375 gbatter 900 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% · 69th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk65% · 19th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening4.9% · 41st percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar10% · 88th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt0.8% · 7th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 10 to 15 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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