Stacy Lyn Harris

Southern Buttermilk Biscuits: 3 Ways with One Recipe

Buttermilk Biscuits: a Staple in the Southern Home

In the South, we eat buttermilk biscuits for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (or supper if that’s what you grew up saying for the last meal of the day). Most Southern women learn this recipe by heart during childhood. It’s simple, easy and extremely versatile.

Watch me make these homemade biscuits on the Outdoor Channel:

Perfect Biscuits – Three Different Techniques

Southerners like their biscuits light and fluffy for breakfast. The key to light fluffy biscuits is using the right flour (White Lily) and  not overworking the dough…let me say that again here, don’t overwork the dough. If it’s overworked, you will end up with dense, tough biscuits.

If you want a less delicate biscuit for recipes like Biscuits and Gravy or Sausage and Biscuits, a higher protein flour such as King Arthur flour is a great choice. Both the light fluffy biscuit and less delicate biscuit are delicious and grace the Southern table just about at all times.

Savory Cheesy Biscuit with Sea Salt and Freshly Cracked Pepper

Along with buttermilk, butter and Crisco rank very high in importance in this recipe. The butter gives a light, airy texture to the dough, creating layers in the biscuits. Butter is about 80% fat and 20% water, which creates steam and rise. Crisco, on the other hand, is 100% fat, which brings the dough nicely together; it also creates flakiness because it melts quickly, leaving no or few chunks in the dough. While you can use one without the other, I like to use both for that perfect biscuit.

Time to Get Cooking

Once you master this recipe, the sky is the limit to biscuit heaven. I love a Savory Cheesy Buttermilk Biscuit as a conduit for ham, turkey, or fried chicken with pepper jelly!

Savory Cheesy Dill Biscuit with Glazed Ham and Pepper Jelly

Wow, I’m salivating. For dessert why not bring a little cinnamon and sugar to the party?

Cinnamon and Sugar Buttermilk Biscuit

I hope you’ll get out the few ingredients this recipe requires today and give these biscuits a try! I’ll show you how to make all three recipes in the video in this post. I’ll have the other 2 recipes on the blog shortly!!

You can find this recipe along with jellies, jams, fried venison, homemade sausage and more in my latest book, Stacy Lyn Harvest Cookbook.

For more recipes like this, check out Weekend Potluck!!

Southern Buttermilk Biscuits

Buttermilk Biscuits are a staple in the Southern Home. You eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (or supper if that's what you grew up saying for the last meal of the day). This recipe is simple, easy and extremely versatile.

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Course Breakfast, Side Dish

Cuisine Southern

Ingredients

  

• 3 cups flour plus enough for dusting
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ¾ tsp salt
• ½ cup (1 stick) butter, cold
• 3 tbsp shortening, cold
• 1 cup buttermilk

Instructions

 

•  Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place a cast iron skillet in the preheating oven.
•  In a large bowl, mix dry ingredients together.
•  Cut butter into pea-size pieces.  Work shortening and butter into the dry ingredients until incorporated.  It should resemble an oatmeal texture.  Be careful not to over mix or the texture will be affected.
• Pour buttermilk into mixture and mix with a wooden spoon or your hand until the flour is wet. The dough isn’t going to have form or shape at this point.  Place dough onto lightly floured surface and fold on top of itself for about 1 minute.  Roll or press dough to 1½ inch thickness.  Cut into 3 to 4 inch rounds using a biscuit cutter or small mason jar.
•  Remove hot skillet from oven and place biscuits in the skillet, making sure the biscuits are touching each other.  Put a light thumbprint in center of each biscuit to keep them even when rising.
• Place in oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown.  Halfway through baking, lightly brush with melted butter and bake for the remaining 10 minutes.  Serve immediately.

Notes

Note: Keep shortening in freezer to ensure cold ingredients and perfect biscuits. 

Recipe Courtesy of stacylynharris.com and Stacy Lyn's Harvest Cookbook. 

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