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Biscuits with Buttermilk Recipe Variation

Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time25 minutes
Cuisine: American
Servings: 8 biscuits
Calories: 148kcal

Equipment

  • Measuring cups and spoons
  • Large mixing bowl
  • Butter knives, x2 (optional)
  • Large baking sheet
  • Parchment paper

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups plain flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 cup buttermilk at room temperature
  • ¼ cup butter

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 425 degrees F (220 C).
  • In a bowl place the flour and salt and baking powder.
  • Rub in the room temperature butter (not cold butter!) until the mix resembles coarse crumbs, using a light touch so the warmth of your fingers doesn’t make the butter melt too much. Alternatively, cut in the butter with two knives.
    butter ready to work into the flour mix for buttermilk biscuits
  • Mix in buttermilk until dough mixture is uniformly moistened. Do not overmix!
  • Add the buttermilk and stir to form a light puffy dough.
    adding the buttermilk
  • Do not knead, but place the biscuit dough on a board and gently press out to about ½ an inch thick.
  • Cut into circles with a cookie cutter.
    cuting out the buttermilk biscuits
  • Place around ½ inch from each other on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper – it makes clean up so much easier and the paper can go into the compost heap. Buttermilk biscuits are on the left compared to the plain baking soda biscuits on the right, before they go into the oven.
    buttermilk biscuits on the left compared to the plain baking soda on the right
  • Bake for around 15 minutes or risen, starting to gain color and are cooked through – take one out to test and if not done keep baking a little longer.
  • Remove from oven and leave in tray to cool, or serve piping hot.
    the buttermilk biscuits are on the left and more golden in color

Notes

  • Again, you can substitute buttermilk powder for the fresh buttermilk if you only have dry goods stored or don’t have enough buttermilk. Just rehydrate the powdered buttermilk according to the specified ratios of powder to water, and mix ingredients well.