Buttermilk Biscuits
onceuponachef.com · 2020 · 12 biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More fat than 90% of recipes and more salt than 95%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 90% of recipes: 57% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- More salt than 95% of recipes: 3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
- More leavening than 76% of recipes: 6.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
Ingredients (8)
- 2 cups all purpose flour, (spooned into measuring cup and leveled-off)≈ 250 g
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch≈ 24 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 1 tablespoon sugar≈ 13 g
- 1¼ teaspoons salt≈ 8 g
- 10 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, (cut into ½-in (13-mm) chunks)≈ 142 g
- ¾ cup buttermilk, (plus a bit more if necessary (see note))≈ 183 g
flour 250 gbatter 634 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.
- Fat57% · 91st percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk73% · 33rd percentile · median 84%
- Leavening6.1% · 79th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar5% · 69th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt3% · 96th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 13 to 15 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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