Buttery, Flaky Sourdough Discard Biscuits From Scratch
Emilie Raffa · theclevercarrot.com · 2024 · 10-12 biscuits
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More fat than 96% of recipes and less buttermilk than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 96% of recipes: 68% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less buttermilk than 91% of recipes: 49% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- No sugar at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 3 to 7.6% of the flour weight).
- More salt than 75% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
Ingredients (9)
- 250 g all purpose flour250 g
- 10 g (1 tbsp) baking powder10 g
- 1 tsp fine sea salt≈ 6 g
- 170 g (12 tbsp) unsalted butter, cold, cubed170 g
- 115 g (1 1/4 cup) shredded sharp cheddar cheese115 g
- 35 g (heaping 1/2 cup) sliced scallions35 g
- 50 g sourdough discard or active sourdough starter50 g
- 1/2 cup buttermilk, plus more as needed≈ 122 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Egg + water for egg washn/a
flour 250 gbatter 758 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.
- Fat68% · 97th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk49% · 6th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening4% · 19th percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar0% · 15th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt2.4% · 84th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 25 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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