Emergency Biscuits: The Quick Dough Your Great-Grandma Used to Make
Susan Bronson · tasteofhome.com · 2020
Against 321 biscuit recipes
Less fat than 99% of recipes and more leavening than 98%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 99% of recipes: 11% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%, under a third as much.
- More leavening than 98% of recipes: 9.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%.
- More buttermilk than 92% of recipes: 120% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- Less salt than 90% of recipes: 0.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about half as much.
Ingredients (5)
- 2 cups bread flour≈ 254 g
- 5 teaspoons baking powder≈ 23 g
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 2 g
- 2 tablespoons butter, cold and cut into small cubes≈ 28 g
- 1-1/4 cups milk, divided≈ 305 g
flour 254 gbatter 612 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.
- Fat11% · 0th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk120% · 93rd percentile · median 84%
- Leavening9.1% · 98th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar0% · 15th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt0.8% · 7th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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