Mama's Started in Texas Buttermilk Biscuits
photo by Chef shapeweaver
- Ready In:
- 22mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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12 biscuits
ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup shortening
- 3⁄4 cup buttermilk
directions
- Heat oven to 450°.
- Mix the dry ingredients in medium size bowl. Cut in the shortning until it looks like little peas.
- Stir in the buttermilk and plop it onto a floured surface. Work in just enough flour to pat the dough into a circle about 1/2 inch thick.
- Take a drinking glass about 3-inches across and cut out your biscuits. Leftover dough is easy to roll back out to sqeeze out a couple more!
- Place on cookie sheet about 1-inch apart and bake for 10-12 minutes until the crust is just brown (Don't overcook!).
- *Note: If a baking recipe calls for butermilk I always use real buttermilk- it certainly does affect the texture. In a pich, use buttermilk powder or even milk.
- Serve warm- we don't even bother with butter but it is your choice. Makes great leftovers if heated in the microwave for 10-15 seconds and topped with jam.
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Reviews
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This recipe was made on 7/12/09 to go with mine and my SO's dinner.I followed the recipe as it was written, ( double sifted the dry ingredients, I always do that )After adding the buttermilk, it turned into a soupy mixture. :( .To get it firm enough to work with I had to add almost 1 1/2 cups of self-rising flour.I will have to admit that the baking time and temp. were right on the money.And the taste was pretty good. Thanks for posting and " Keep Smiling :) "
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OMG Grace, these deserve every 5 star it's recieved and more. I've always used the bisquick version before and thought they were great. Now I know the differance and these are every bit as easy. I was making breakfast, was out of bisquick and found this recipe. How lucky was that; I'll never have to buy that stuff again. These go together just as fast and easy and the taste is so light you can really taste the differance. I followed the recipe exactly only made bigger biscuits as we like them TEXAS sized in this house. Didn't have real buttermilk so I warmed plain milk and then mixed 2 tablespoons of buttermilk powder in it and that seemed to work well. Served with cheese scrambled eggs, sausage and fresh hot coffee, YUMMY; you sure know your biscuits. Now if I can only get up enough courage to try the FONDANT!!! Thanks for a true winner that will be my only biscuit from now on.
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