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Mary Leigh’s Buttermilk Biscuits
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Homemade buttermilk biscuits are our favorite breakfast at the Cool Water Ranch. For years we’ve made them almost every weekend. When my daughter Mary Leigh was still very small, she started helping me. Now she’s completely taken over the job. The recipe is not revolutionary. There are only three ingredients: self-rising flour (White Lily is by far the best), buttermilk, and butter. (We used to use Crisco, but what we now know about trans fats made me convert to butter as the shortening.)
Yield : Makes 6 to 10 biscuits
Ingredients
- 6 Tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
- 3 cups self rising flour
- 1½ cups buttermilk
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 475 degrees. Cut the butter into the flour with a wire whisk until the mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. A few small lumps are okay.
2. Blend in the buttermilk with light strokes of a kitchen fork. Continue lightly blending until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Add a little more milk, if necessary, to work all the dry flour at the bottom into a sticky, thoroughly damp dough.
3. Lightly grease a baking sheet or pizza pan with butter or shortening. Spoon out the dough with a large spoon into lumps about 3 inches high and 3-4 inches in diameter and drop them about 1 inch apart on the prepared baking sheet or pizza pan. Dip your fingers in water and mound the dough up a bit if necessary.
4. Bake until the little peaks on the biscuits start to brown, 10-14 minutes. Don’t aim for a dark overall brown; that indicates overbaking.
© 2006 Tom Fitzmorris
Note from Cookstr's Editors
Nutritional information is based on a serving size of 1 biscuit, total of 10 for the recipe.
Nutritional Information
Nutrients per serving
209 kcal
17 % daily value
1 % daily value
2 % daily value
104 mg
11 mg
5 g
2 g
1 g
30 g
20 mg
516 mg
5 g
8 g
10 % daily value
