Easy Buttermilk Biscuits
One of my all-time favorite comfort foods is Buttermilk Biscuits. This food is a Southern favorite! Biscuits are little round bits of bread heaven! If you never eaten a biscuit, I would highly recommend you try one. They are typically eaten at breakfast with jelly or gravy, but also tastes great when eaten with meat and vegetables and even soups!
This recipe is my mom’s that she’s given to me to share with my family. When I was child, I remember her making these biscuits every weekend. By the time the weekend was over, the biscuits were all eaten. She makes the best biscuits, although I think I’ve aced this recipe (thank you Mom for teaching me how to makes these little tasty gems!).
Here’s how to make Easy Buttermilk Biscuits:
Preheat your oven to 450 degrees. You’ll need self rising flour, buttermilk (if you don’t have buttermilk you can use regular milk), shortening and margarine (or you can use butter).
Put these ingredients in a mixing bowl: 2 cups self rising flour, 2 tablespoons butter/margarine, 4 tablespoons shortening. I cut the margarine into small pieces for easier blending. Blend together with a pastry blender tool.
Blend until the mixer looks like the picture above. It’s important you blend the ingredients until they well mixed. Add 1 cup of buttermilk and blend with a fork until the milk is all mixed in.
Sprinkle some flour on a flat surface, then scoop the dough onto the flour. Add more flour to the dough so it’s not sticky. Kneed into a ball (like the picture above).
Pat the ball down until it’s about 1-2 inches thick (like in the picture above). I don’t use a rolling pin, just use my hand to pat the dough down. Important Note: the thicker the dough, the higher the biscuit. Use a medium size biscuit cutter (see the kitchen tool I’m using in the picture above) to cut out the biscuit shapes. You’ll probably get about 4 biscuits out of the first cutting. Gather the dough into another ball and pat down. Cut out more biscuits. Do this until you use up the dough.
For this recipe, I always make 9 biscuits. Do you see bits of yellow in the biscuit dough? That’s margarine. When the biscuits bake, those margarine bits will make the biscuits tastes like little pieces of heaven!
Important Note #2: Lay the biscuit shapes adjacent to one another. This is important because as the biscuits rise, the’ll rise up and you’ll get fluffy biscuits. Bake on 450 degrees for 13-15 minutes.
And there you have it, heaven on a plate! I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do!
Ingredients:
2 cups self-rising flour
2 Tbls. margarine (or butter)
4 Tbls. shortening
1 cup buttermilk (or regular milk)
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. In a mixing bowl, blend the flour, margarine and shortening with a pastry blender until well blended. Add the buttermilk and blend with a fork until the milk is all mixed in.
Sprinkle some flour on a flat surface, then scoop the dough onto the flour. Add more flour to the dough so it’s not sticky. Barely kneed the dough until it’s just smooth (don’t over-kneed or you’ll have tough biscuits). Pat the ball down until it’s about 1-2 inches thick. Use a biscuit cutter to cut out the biscuit shapes. You’ll probably get about 4 biscuits out of the first cutting. Gather the dough into another ball and pat down. Cut out more biscuits. Do this until you use up the dough and get 9 biscuit shapes. Lay the biscuits shapes adjacent to one another on a greased cookie sheet. Bake on 450 degrees for 13-15 minutes.
Makes 9 biscuits.
Use these kitchen tools to make great biscuits!
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These look so delicious! YUM!
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These look amazing! I am always looking for new recipes! Stopping by from #TwoForTuesdays:)
these look yummy my son has been asking for me to make some and yours are more easy for him to make. He loves to cook will be sharing love passing recipes to family and that's why they call it traditions love it thanks again have a great day
I LOVE biscuits! And these look so delicious! Thanks for linking up to Two For Tuesdays!
I have to try my hand at making organic biscuits from scratch…thanks for reminding me. Stpping by from Wonderful Wednesdays.
From scratch is best! I shudder to think now but years ago the absolute BEST biscuits I ever had were made with pork lard. They were delicious.
Definitely pinning this…thank you! Warm biscuits and jam are heavenly for breakfast (actually anytime!!).
I love a good recipe and buttermilk biscuits are my favorite but I have never tried to make them. Will give this a try. Thank you so much for linking up to Share With Me. #sharewithme
Great Tutorial!! This is a recipe to keep on hand!! Hey I would love it if you shared you stuff on my new Link Party that starts tomorrow…Thursday! Its called My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday! here is the link…You have great stuff!! Thanks for sharing!!http://www.cookinandcraftin.com/my-2-favorite-things-link-party-1/
Yum yum yum! These look so yummy. Stopping by from Dear Creatives link up. Would love for you to stop by my baking blog to say hello!
These look perfect! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!
Mmm they look lovely!!
Oh my! This looks so amazing. Pinned and tweeted. Thank you so much for being a part of our party. We really appreciate you! I hope to see you on tonight at 7 pm. Happy Monday! Lou Lou Girls
Oh these look delicious. Thanks for linking up
YUM!! If only I could find a gluten free biscuit that tasted as good as these look. 🙂
Whoo yes please, they look so yummy and with jam too 🙂
Thanks for sharing at Creative Mondays, pinned and featured this week at the blog hop..