South Carolina Buttermilk Biscuits
Recipe: #43873
November 14, 2024
Categories: Breads, Breakfast, Southern, Quick Breads, Flour Buttermilk, more
"I was looking for Strom Thurmond grandma's biscuits. couldn't find them, but ncmysteryshopper had one that was probably close. You can drop these in soup to make fluffy dumplings. Can use for strawberry shortcakes, just add more sugar (1/4 cup). Can use 5 tablespoons cold lard instead of butter."
Original is 12 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (45.8 g)
- Calories 123.5
- Total Fat - 5.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.5 g
- Cholesterol - 14.7 mg
- Sodium - 309.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 15.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.1 g
- Sugars - 1.3 g
- Protein - 3.3 g
- Calcium - 120.6 mg
- Iron - 0.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 500° F.
Step 2
In a bowl, sift the flour with the baking powder, sugar, baking soda and salt.
Step 3
Work the butter or lard in until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
Step 4
Add the buttermilk and stir until the dough forms a ball.
Step 5
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and fold it over onto itself 10 times.
Step 6
Pat the dough out to an 8-inch square.
Step 7
Using a 2 1/2-inch round cutter, stamp out 12 biscuits
Step 8
Now some folks use a sharp tin can to make bigger biscuits.
Step 9
Re-roll the scraps and stamp out more biscuits.
Step 10
Arrange the biscuits on a pam sprayed or greased baking sheet (closer for softer biscuits apart for crispier biscuits) and bake in the center of the oven for 8 minutes, or until golden. Serve hot.
Tips
No special items needed.
1 Reviews
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