Buttermilk Biscuits
spendwithpennies.com · 2026 · 10 biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More leavening than 94% of recipes and less fat than 79%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 94% of recipes: 8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
- Less fat than 79% of recipes: 30% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Buttermilk in the middle half of recipes: 98% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Ingredients (7)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 4 teaspoons baking powder≈ 18 g
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar≈ 8 g
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ⅓ cup cold butter≈ 76 g
- 1 cup buttermilk≈ 244 g
flour 250 gbatter 601 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.
- Fat30% · 19th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk98% · 75th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening8% · 96th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar3.4% · 54th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt1.2% · 28th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 10 to 12 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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