Mom's Buttermilk Biscuits
Recipe: #14581
October 14, 2014
"We like these for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Serve with butter and honey or jam. Good for strawberry shortcake too! Makes 9-12 biscuits, depending on how thick you roll the dough."
Original recipe yields 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (112.2 g)
- Calories 355.4
- Total Fat - 17.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.5 g
- Cholesterol - 14.7 mg
- Sodium - 660.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 42 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.4 g
- Sugars - 2.1 g
- Protein - 6.7 g
- Calcium - 140.8 mg
- Iron - 0.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Grease a square pan for 9 biscuits or a rectangular pan for 12.
Step 2
Sift dry ingredients. Cut shortening in with pastry cutter or fork. Add buttermilk and mix gently with a fork, being careful not to overmix.
Step 3
Sprinkle flour on dough board. Gently knead dough until smooth, no more than 8-10 times.
Step 4
For 12 biscuits, roll dough to about 5/8" thick. For 9 biscuits, roll dough to about 1" thick.
Step 5
Place biscuits in pan and brush with melted butter. Bake for about 15 minutes or until done. Serve warm with butter and honey or jam.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.
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