00743 11 40 C 11 55. 007431 69 40 69 C 47. This southern homemade biscuits for old-fashioned Southern Buttermilk Biscuits are the best!
They come out so thick and fluffy and melt in your mouth! A CLASSIC SOUTHERN SIDE DISH Being from the south, we pretty much always have biscuits at every dinner. You just cannot go wrong with these easy and delicious Southern Buttermilk Biscuits. They take minimal ingredients and just a little arm work to throw them together.
It is so easy to master biscuit making with just a few steps. I don’t know a single person who doesn’t love these biscuits. Stacked Southern Buttermilk Biscuits on top of one another on white plate. Why do you fold the dough over on itself? This helps incorporate the ingredients and give the biscuits the nice flaky texture that we are going for.
It basically builds all those fluffy layers you want in a biscuit. Do I have to grate my butter? But I have found over the years that this process makes it much easier to incorporate the butter into the dry ingredients. You can grate it large or small but I highly recommend grating it, it will make things much easier. Why do you brush buttermilk on the top of the biscuits before baking?
This helps them brown up, brushing any liquid like buttermilk which is commonly done for biscuits or butter makes the tops of the biscuits nice and brown. How do you get those nice tall biscuits? The one tip every southern granny will tell you is to never twist your biscuit cutter when you are cutting out your biscuits. Just push down and pull up. When you twist the biscuit cutter, you are sealing the biscuit edges closed and it will be unable to rise as it bakes.
How do I store leftover biscuits? These will keep on the countertop in an airtight container for up to 2 days. You can heat them up in the microwave for 15-30 seconds before enjoying them again. These can also be frozen, place cooled biscuits in a freezer container and they will last for up to 2-3 months. Pinterest image of pastry brush brushing melted butter on Southern Buttermilk Biscuits. Ingredients needed: unsalted butter, all-purpose flour, baking powder, granulated sugar, fine sea salt, baking soda and buttermilk. Dry ingredients mixed together in bowl.
Pastry blender cutting butter into dry ingredients. Buttermilk being poured into the butter and flour mixture. Dough ball on lightly floured surface. Dough rolled out into a rectangle. Biscuits being cut out with a biscuit cutter. Biscuits on baking sheet being brushed with buttermilk. Pastry brush brushing melted butter on biscuits.