When I was a little girl, our family would travel to my grandmother’s for Sunday dinner. The table was overflowing with fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and fresh from the oven biscuits.
Those warm, flaky biscuits were always my favorite. So I’m sharing the love with my children by learning how to bake Buttermilk Biscuits in my School of Southern Cooking this week.
The oven will need to be smoking hot for the biscuits to rise. So before you begin to mix the ingredients, preheat the oven to 475 degrees.
Get started by sifting all the dry ingredients (flour, salt, and sugar) into a large mixing bowl. My children love helping in the kitchen and using their great-grandmother’s sifter is their favorite!
Next, use a fork to cut in the shortening and cold butter until the mixture is coarse. It should look like medium sized crumbles. Add buttermilk, whole milk, and water. Mix gently until lightly combined.
Do not over mix! Over mixing will turn tender flaky biscuits into little hard hockey pucks. Trust me on this.
Pour mixture out onto a floured surface. Knead dough 2 or 3 times. With floured hands, pat out the dough to 1/2 inch thickness.
Use a floured biscuit cutter or can to cut out biscuits. A fancy, smancy crystal glass will work just fine too! 😉
Do not twist the cutter when cutting out the biscuits; press straight down. Any leftover dough can be kneaded back together and cut. Hint: If making for breakfast sandwiches, knead the dough a few extra times and cut biscuits 1″ thick.
Place the biscuits on a lightly greased pan and bake for 10-12 until golden brown. Remove from the oven a brush with melted butter.
Slathered with butter, smeared with jelly, or drizzled with honey, these easy to make Buttermilk Biscuits are the best!
The proof of their tastiness is on this empty plate. My picky eater Little Boy loved them!
I have made this recipe four times in one week. Every time they have popped out of the oven, my family has eaten each and every one. The boys loved the Buttermilk Biscuits so much they requested them for their First Day of School breakfast.
Kinda like a last meal before the chopping block of starting school again. Poor littles. Their Mama is so happy to have them back in school! 😉
Want more recipe from my School of Southern Cooking? Check out these posts:
Fried Green Tomatoes // Zucchini Crab Cakes // Punch Bowl Cake
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Southern Biscuits are my weakness & favorite! I have shared! Thanks for posting.
These biscuits are so yummy! Thanks for the bloggy love!
~ Ashley
Oh my goodness, these look wonderful. Just pinned and I am going to try and make this 🙂
You have got to make these biscuits for your family. They will love you for it!
~ Ashley
Looks great! I want to try these!!!
Betcha can’t make just one batch of this yummy biscuits!
~ Ashley
Yummy, yum. yumville! Girl can I come over for dinner? I enjoy a delicious homecooked meal, but I don’t like making it! 😀
Doesn’t everything taste better when you don’t have to cook it? 😉
~ Ashley
That’s so sweet that your children can use their great-grandmother’s sifter to make biscuits. Such sweet moments.
They think that sifter is the coolest thing ever! I loved your biscuit recipe too. 😉
~ Ashley
Yes, please! These look delicious Ashley! I love a good buttermilk biscuit!
I had no idea biscuits were so simple to make. Thanks so much for hosting your fun and creavite party!
~ Ashley
So yummy!!! I’ve never tried to make biscuits thinking I would make a mess of it; but I may just give it a try and follow your directions to a tee! TFS
This Buttermilk Biscuit recipe is very easy to make! I hope you try it. 😉
~ Ashley
These look delicious! I can’t wait to try it! I know my kids will love it…the love rolls.
My kids keep asking me to make these yummy biscuits! Hope your family loved them too.
Thanks so much for hosting your fun party!
~ Ashley
They look so good! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much! I’m so excited you like my buttermilk biscuit recipe!
~ Ashley
OMG these sound completely amazing!
Thanks for joining the Link Up this week!
These biscuits sound so nice! I love shortbread and any biscuit that flakes in the mouth. I’m going to save this recipe for the winter, but I’ll have to substitute the buttermilk with Greek natural yogurt, fingers crossed it doesn’t make too much of a difference.
Found your recipe on the #SHINEbloghop.
I would love to know if the yogurt substitution worked. Good luck!
~ Ashley
Oooh I have been craving homemade biscuits for awhile. The canned ones just don’t cut it. I will have to try making these this week, we usually have one night a week that we have breakfast for dinner. These would be great with sausage and gravy 🙂
Thank you for sharing this past week with the SHINE Blog Hop!
Mmmm… biscuits and sausage gravy sounds so yummy!
Mmmm. I love buttermilk biscuits. These are one of my favorites!
Aw man, I’ve gotta learn to not check out these links around dinner time. I want to make these! And every other thing I’ve come across. Pinned for later. Maybe this weekend I’ll find the time. 🙂
Yummy, nothing quite like a homemade biscuit! Thanks for sharing the recipe with SYC. Pinned.
hugs,
Jann
The former southern in me just couldnt resist featuring these this week on the creative spark link party! Stop by and check out your feature and link up again! http://bit.ly/1pGnzMf
Hi Ashley. These look amazing. They bring back such happy memories of growing up and Sunday dinners. (My parents are Southerns) Thank you for linking up to Tips and Tricks. You will be this week’s feature on Fearlessly Creative Mammas. We hope you will come over and link up again. Have a wonderful week.
Yay! Thanks so much for the super fun party and the feature!
~ Ashley