What is the one breakfast food you consider to be your favorite? One of my most loved is a good homemade biscuit. There is nothing wrong with a canned or frozen biscuit, but they sure don’t taste as yummy to me.
Every time I make biscuits I remember as a young girl watching my grandmother standing in her kitchen making a huge batch for the family on Saturday mornings. They always tasted soooo good. I really wish I had her recipe but she has been gone for many years now so I can’t get it from her.
Fortunately, I did come across this recipe (slightly modified) somewhere during the last few years, and it is my favorite of all the biscuit recipes I’ve tried. It only requires four ingredients and there is no rolling out the dough.
Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits
Ingredients:
- 2 cups White Lily self rising flour (White Lily is best)
- 1/3 cup shortening
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- Melted Butter
Directions:
- Blend the flour and shortening together until the consistency of course bread crumbs.
- Add buttermilk and mix and knead for about 1 minute until smooth and elastic.
- Pinch off golf ball size chunks of dough, roll into balls and place on a baking sheet.
- Press each ball down in the center to about 1 inch thick.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes at 450 degrees.
- Brush with melted butter when they come out of oven.
Makes about 8 medium sized biscuits.
Tip: For blending the flour and shortening, you can use a pastry blender or a fork. However, my preferred utensil is my hands. Yes, it’s messy, but it seems faster and easier to combine, and clean up is much easier too.
These tasty biscuits are wonderful served plain or with various spreads. As far as spreads go, one of my top picks is apple butter. Served warm it adds a delicious apple-cinnamon sweetness to the biscuit.
You can buy apple butter near the jams and jellies in your grocery store or you can make your own.
Here is a link to an apple butter recipe for you to try if you want to make your own.
Tip: If you’re making the apple butter, I suggest using a combination of apples. However, I would not recommend using Red Delicious since they are not considered cooking or baking apples.
Do you make biscuits from scratch or do you prefer store bought? What are your favorite spreads or biscuit companions?
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FOUR ingredients and no rolling out the dough?
I am all about that. YIPEE!! I want to find a biscuit recipe that my daughter can do all by herself. This just may be it.
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My kids love to help with these. I pinch off a chunk of dough and they form the biscuits and put them on the baking sheet.
Then I let my son brush butter on the tops after they come out of the oven. We call it painting the biscuits with butter. He loves it.
Oh, I love buttermilk biscuits! The recipe could not get ANY easier : ) I must try! thanks for sharing!
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Biscuits are one of my favorite foods! Thanks for sharing!
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Mmm, I love biscuits!!
loved these my husbands grandma made the best but I want to try to make more
These look exactly like my husbands grandmothers…which we have been trying to replicate for years!
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Sounds like a great biscuit recipe. Love it. Thanks for sharing.
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Wow, how easy! I’m definelty trying these.
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I love home made biscuits!
These look great, I’m useless at using a rolling pin so this is a good recipe for me! I am curious to see if it will work with butter as shortening can be a bit tricky (and expensive) for me to get ahold of. Can’t wait to try it out!
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I have never tried replacing the shortening with butter, but if it did work, the biscuits would probably taste even better - good and buttery. I did a google search on your question and here’s what I got:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080909152313AAAJCFR
I think I might actually try it with butter next time just to see how they turn out.
I saw your link on BD, and I’m glad I stopped by. Those look so yummy. Thanks for the recipe.
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I love that you highlighted a classic recipe. If you want to, I am posting a recipe link over at Momtrends. Just add your favorite recipe here:
http://momtrends.blogspot.com/2009/05/friday-feasts.html
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I finally got around to making these and they are as close to my husband’s grandmother’s as I’ve come. Mine looked more buisuit like - your picture shows them just like grandmother’s, round and bun like. I’ve got to work on that! Do you knead the dough for 1 minute after it’s mixed together?
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I’m glad to hear the biscuits are closer to what you’ve been looking for. I do usually knead them 45 sec to 1 min. If I don’t, they don’t hold together quite as well, and we like to sop them in syrup. I actually knead them right in the bowl and I don’t add extra flour. It’s a little sticky, but the biscuits seem too dry if I add more flour.
Biscuits are just one of those things that take practice to get them the way you like them. The other thing I’ve found is that no matter how many times I’ve made them, they don’t always come out the same. That’s when I look at them and say, “as long as they taste good.”