Buttermilk Biscuits

Name: Buttermilk Biscuits
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp baking powder; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 355 milliliters buttermilk, plus additional for brushing; 946 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 Tbsp salt; 237 milliliters vegetable shortening, cold, cut into 1/2-inch pieces

Buttermilk Biscuits might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 8. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 483 calories, 8g of protein, and 28g of fat per serving. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up baking powder, baking soda, flour, and a few other things to make it today. This recipe is typical of Southern cuisine.

Instructions

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Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

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Oven

Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.

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Baking Soda

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Cut in the shortening using a pastry blender or your hands or a stand mixer fixed with a dough hook until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the center and add 1 cup buttermilk. Using your hands, quickly fold the dry ingredients into the buttermilk until a sticky dough forms. You may need to add more buttermilk.

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Buttermilk

Shortening

Dough

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Stand Mixer

Turn the dough out onto a floured surface. Gently fold the dough over itself 3 or 4 times to create layers. Press the dough out to 1 1/2-inches thick and cut with a floured 3-inch biscuit cutter.

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Biscuits

Dough

Lay the biscuits on an ungreased cookie sheet and brush the tops with buttermilk.

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Buttermilk

Biscuits

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Baking Sheet

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until risen and golden brown.

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Oven

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Oven

Stand Mixer

Baking Sheet

Ingredients

Servings:

1Tbsp

baking powder 2teaspoons

baking soda 355milliliters

buttermilk, plus additional for brushing 946milliliters

all-purpose flour 1Tbsp

salt 237milliliters

vegetable shortening, cold, cut into 1/2-inch pieces

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Southern can be paired with Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare.

#95 Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2017It’s richer and less minty than usual but I like the richness in this vintage, which can use a little gras; so anticipate a wine with more apple and less spearmint; crunchy stuff. The parcel is called Heel and it’s to the right of Anrecht, from which one of the great trio of en-bloc wines comes.