Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits
savorthebest.com · 2025 · 10 servings
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More buttermilk than 90% of recipes and more fat than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More buttermilk than 90% of recipes: 114% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- More fat than 84% of recipes: 52% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2¾ cups all-purpose flour (or pastry flour, 330 grams)330 g
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar≈ 8 g
- 1 tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda≈ 4.5 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 teaspoon ground white pepper (or black pepper)≈ 4.9 g
- 12 tablespoons butter (chilled and cut into cubes)≈ 170 g
- 1¼ to 1⅓ cups buttermilk (cold, 300–315 grams)315 g
- 4 tablespoons heavy cream (melted butter, or egg wash)≈ 60 g
flour 330 gbatter 913 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.
- Fat52% · 85th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk114% · 91st percentile · median 84%
- Leavening5.5% · 63rd percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar2.5% · 44th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1.8% · 58th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 18 to 24 minutes
- median 15 minutes
Keep exploring
Recipes most like this one
Nearest by baker's percentages: fat, buttermilk, leavening, sugar, salt.
Do something with it
Or browse all 321 biscuit recipes.