Southern Biscuits by Alton Brown
From poohbearlovesheavymetal 16 years ago
- 12 minutes to make
- Serves 12
I've tried more biscuit recipes than I can count trying to recreate the kind of soft, warm, buttery biscuits I remember from childhood. This is the best I've found, and of course it's from Alton Brown
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour, sifted shopping list
- 2 tsp. cream of tartar* shopping list
- 1-1/4 tsp. baking soda* shopping list
- 3/4 tsp. salt shopping list
- 3 tbs. butter shopping list
- 3 tbs. shortening (Spectrum Organic) shopping list
- 1 cup buttermilk shopping list
- *Instead of 2 tsp. cream of tartar and 1-1/4 tsp. baking soda you can use 4 tsp. baking powder and 1/4 tsp. baking soda. shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. In a large mixing bowl combine flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Using your fingers, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. Make a well in the center and pour in buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. It will be very sticky. Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top of dough with flour and gently pat out until about 1 inch thick. Cut out biscuits with 2-inch cutter or glass with same diameter. You will need to dip cutter often to keep from sticking. Place biscuits so they are just barely touching on cookie sheet. Reform scrap dough and cut again. Biscuits from second and third pass will not be as tender. Bake for about 12 minutes until biscuits are tall and brown.
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Reviewed by 4 people-
awsome buscuits high5 to you and alton brown great post thanks
momo_55grandma
in Mountianview loved it
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Love Alton...saving these to try. Thanks for sharing.
sparow64
in Sweetwater loved it
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Light, fluffy, good rise.
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