Photo: Southern Biscuits Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons shortening
- 1 cup buttermilk, chilled
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.
Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey, that's life.)
Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.
Notes
MA MAE'S BISCUITS
Advice courtesy Mae Skelton
I don't have much use for recipes but the one you get on a bag of White Lily(r) self-rising flour is hard to beat. And it's a lot easier than the one my crazy grandson dreamed up.
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By carries_ccc_9345128
Marin County, Ca.
on January 25, 2012
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Made these for Christmas... my family were fighting over them!!
First time making biscuits. I cannot believe how easy this recipe is. I added bits of cheddar cheese and panchetta. Topped with melted butter and dried dill. Excellent!!!
By Aquarius56
on January 23, 2012
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Yes, the recipe on the back of flour package works just fine. But I really like this recipe by Alton Brown. I think the biscuits are more flavorful because you use butter. They are fluffy inside and crispy outside, but never hard. When you bite into it the delicate outside crust makes you crave for more.
By waldowjd
on January 22, 2012
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these were great..my whole family LOVED them! i made them in my food processor...up until the kneading and cutting part...i put them in for tthe recommended 15 minutes and they came out a little over done...i think it is more the fault of our oven, though.
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