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 chilled buttermilk
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
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.
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By meeshel123
Dectur, AL
on November 27, 2011
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These are really quick and easy. I realize it's the "old fashioned" way to do biscuits, but in the end, it's worth it. This is the go-to biscuit recipe going forward...
By lovefood1234
on November 26, 2011
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Awesome recipe! Easy to make and come out delicious! This was my first time making biscuits from scratch and I served it on Thanksgiving, so I took a chance by putting these out on my table without doing a test run beforehand. Glad I took the chance, what a success! I will never buy pre made canned biscuits again...so easy, so fresh, and so delicious! Thanks Alton!
By rannetteb_7884245
Warwick, RI
on November 06, 2011
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These are so simple and so delicious. Do not be intimidated by trying to make these from scratch. My family gets excited every time they see me making them. I will never go back to the canned ones again. I also just saw this show on a re run and it was so funny with his grandmother. Make sure you put the biscuits side by side, they are so right they puff up so nicely.
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