Cheese Biscuits Recipe (Cheddar Biscuits)

Dassana Amit · vegrecipesofindia.com · 2021 · 25 Cheese Biscuits

Against 321 biscuit recipes

Less leavening than 95% 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.

Less leavening than 95% of recipes: 2.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.1%, about half as much.
Less buttermilk than 91% of recipes: 49% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Less salt than 85% of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
No sugar at all, where 69% of recipes use some (most of those 3 to 7.6% of the flour weight).

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

2 cups all purpose flour (- 250 grams)250 g
1.5 teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper (or red chili powder or paprika)≈ 1.2 g
¼ to ½ teaspoon crushed black pepper ( or black pepper powder)≈ 1.9 g
100 grams butter (- cold, unsalted or ¾ cup chilled butter cubes, can swap with salted butter)100 g
100 grams cheddar cheese (or 1.5 cups grated cheddar cheese)100 g
½ cup cold buttermilk (- instead of buttermilk, you can also add cold milk)≈ 122 g
2 to 3 pinches sea salt (or black salt or edible food grade rock salt - for sprinkling, as required)≈ 1 g

flour 250 gbatter 585 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 321 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: fat, buttermilk, leavening, sugar, salt.