Mamaw's Buttermilk Biscuits

This is my grandmother's recipe for Southern Buttermilk Biscuits. She bestowed it to me when I was in college and couldn't live without my Biscuits and Gravy. I have made a few tweaks to it over the years... but not much.

Levi Fuson @LeviFuson

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Ingredients

16 mins

3-4

1/2 cup- All-Purpose Flour (for kneading)
1 1/4 cups- All-Purpose Flour (for recipe)
1 cup- Cake Flour
1 1/2 tsp- Cream of Tartar
1 1/2 tsp- Baking Soda
3/4 tsp- Cornstarch
3/4 tspSugar
3/4 tspSalt
10 tbspn- Salted Butter (Frozen/Chilled)
1 1/4 cup- Buttermilk

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Steps

16 mins

1

Pre-heat oven to 400º F.
2

Sift all the dry ingredients into a large bowl.
3

If you are using frozen butter (which is preferred), chop the butter into 2 tablespoon chunks. In a food processor, use the pulse to chop the butter into small chunks. They should be a bit smaller than chocolate chips. DO NOT over pulse and allow the butter to soften!
4

Using a spatula, mix the butter crumbles into the dry ingredients until it looks like a coarse meal.
5

Slowly add 3/4 of your Buttermilk and stir until mixed thoroughly. Add in up to another 1/2 of Buttermilk until the dough becomes sticky, not dry, and can be rolled into a dough ball.
6

Thoroughly coat your counter top and hands with a thin layer of flour. Drop the dough onto the counter and lightly coat with flour.
7

Knead and roll the dough out until it is approx. 1/2 inch thick. Sprinkle with flour and fold over like an envelope, then fold over onto itself once again to make a thick square.
8

Roll the dough out once more to your desired thickness and cut with circles with a glass, small bowl or cutter. Ideally, these should be about 1 1/2 inches thick but can really be to your preference at this point.
9

Sprinkle each biscuit with a little flour, form the edges and place onto a cookie sheet. Biscuits will rise slightly when cooking so place about an inch apart.
10

Cook in a 400º oven for about 16-20 minutes. I prefer to spread with melted butter after about 15 minutes, then let them finish cooking.
11

Yield: 6-7 Large or 9-10 Smaller Biscuits.