Southern Buttermilk Drop Biscuits
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Serves: 12
 
Super fluffy buttermilk drop biscuits adapted from Cooks Illustrated. Perfect for soups, chilis and stews for the fall and winter.
Ingredients
  • 2¾ cups all purpose flour
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 4 tbsp unsalted butter chilled and cut into ¼ inch cubes
  • 2 tbsp butter melted (salted or unsalted)
  • 1½ cup buttermilk (you may use whole milk if you must)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 500 degrees and set rack to middle position.
  2. In a large baking dish or sheet add ¾ cup of flour and set aside for later use. Grease a nine inch round cake pan (I ended up using two smaller cake pans, still turned out fine)
  3. In a food processor add 2 cups flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt and pulse until combined. Next add your chilled butter pieces on top and pulse again until a coarse crumbly mixture forms. Transfer mixture to a medium sized bowl.
  4. Add your buttermilk (or whole milk) to dry ingredients and stir until just mixed leaving dough still very wet and clumpy.
  5. Using a greased spoon (ice cream scooper works great!) scoop about a ¼ cup of dough onto the floured baking sheet that you set aside in the beginning. You'll do this about 12 times which will leave you with 12 mounds of dough on top of the flour.
  6. Next making sure to flour your hands VERY WELL take each mound of dough and coat with the flour using hands and forming into a ball shape, then place on cake pan (start forming a circle with the balls of dough working from the outside in on cake pan)
  7. Once all rounds of dough are on cake plan, lightly brush the tops of them with melted butter.
  8. Transfer pan to oven and bake for 5 minutes, then turn down temperature to 450 degrees and bake an additional 13-15 minutes or until biscuits are a deep golden brown color.
  9. Remove from oven, let cool for a couple of minutes, and then turn over to remove from pan, then back over and pull apart biscuits to serve.
  10. These are best served warm :)
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 12
Recipe by My Lavender Blues at https://mylavenderblues.com/southern-buttermilk-drop-biscuits/