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Southern Buttermilk Biscuits

These Southern Buttermilk Biscuits are rich and flaky . They only have four ingredients and are made in less than thirty minutes.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 13 minutes
Total Time 23 minutes
Course Breakfast/Breads
Cuisine American/Southern
Servings 8
Calories

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups of Self Rising flour
  • 2 Tablespoons Sugar
  • 1/3 cup butter flavored crisco
  • 1 cup cold Buttermilk
  • a little extra flour for kneading and cutting
  • 2 Tablespoons of melted butter -to brush the tops of the biscuits

Instructions
 

  • Preheat Oven to 425 F
  • In a large mixing bowl mix together self rising flour and sugar
  • With a pastry cutter or two knives cut in crisco until it looks like fine small pea sized pebbles.
  • Slowly add buttermilk mixing as you go
  • Once all the buttermilk is added and the dough is just mixed together turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface
  • Knead just until the dough is no longer tacky, maybe 10 times at most . You may need to sprinkle a little extra flour
  • Pat or roll(I prefer the patting method) the dough into a circle about 1 inch thick
  • Cut the biscuits with a biscuit cutter * See notes
  • Place the cut biscuits on a baking sheet
  • Brush a little melted butter on top
  • Bake in a preheated for 10-15 minutes -or until golden brown on top.

Notes

Whole Buttermilk works best for this recipe
If you don't have biscuit cutters an opened cleaned and dried can works perfect, this is the way my Grandmother used to do it
With my 2 inch cutter I consistently get 8 biscuits from this recipe 

Nutrition

Serving: 1g
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