
Butter Biscuits - Basic
6
Servings
Servings
10m PT10M
Prep Time
Prep Time
15m PT15M
Cook Time
Cook Time
25m
Ready In
Ready In
Recipe: #3993
January 11, 2012
Categories: Breads, Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Dinner rolls or other breads, Snacks, Dairy, British, North American, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Rim, Kid Pleaser, Quick Meals, Small Batch Cooking, Baby Shower, Brunch, Entertaining, Fall/Autumn, Father's Day, Game/Sports Day, Ladies Luncheon, Mother's Day, Potluck, Romantic Dinner, Summer, Winter, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Make it from scratch, Flour, Milk more
"See the tutorial for these biscuits - http://www.recipezazz.com/viewforums/viewtopic.php?f=132&t=2397 Delicious basic butter biscuits, mmm mmm quick and hot out of the oven slathered in butter."
Original recipe yields 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (90.4 g)
- Calories 215
- Total Fat - 4.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 3 g
- Cholesterol - 4.9 mg
- Sodium - 98.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 38.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2 g
- Sugars - 0.1 g
- Protein - 5.2 g
- Calcium - 163.4 mg
- Iron - 0.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step 1
Preheat oven to 450F Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Grate frozen butter into flour mixture, cut into mixture with a pastry cutter until until it forms small crumbs.
Step 2
Make a well in the centre of mixture and pour in half of the milk, stir until the dough starts to come away from the sides of the bowl, add more milk and mix until a ball forms. Turn out onto lightly floured board, knead 6 or 8 times; then roll out to about half inch thick. Cut with a floured biscuit cutter into 6 large or 12 small biscuits. Place on lightly buttered oven tray.
Step 3
Bake for 10 to 15 minutes , depending on biscuit size and until golden brown. Remove immediately to bread basket and cover to keep warm.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.