Southern Buttermilk Biscuits
Makes 6 Biscuits
Biscuit Dough:
2 Cups (240g) All Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon (7g) Salt
1 Tablespoon (12g) Sugar
1 Tablespoon (12g) Baking Powder
¼ teaspoon (2g) Baking Soda
6 tablespoons (77g) Unsalted, Cold Butter
¾ cup (200g) Buttermilk
Instructions:
Preheat your oven to 450 degrees and get your parchment-lined baking sheet ready.
Add ALL dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, salt) to a mixing bowl and mix well with clean dry hand, whisk, or fork
Butter - put your stick in the flour mixture and coat all sides - then cut into small cubes. Add to flour mixture and pinch cubes into dough until pea-sized.
Put flour/butter bowl mix in the fridge or freezer for a few minutes to make sure butter is solid & cold.Make a well in your bowl of flour and add your buttermilk. Mix JUST until the buttermilk is absorbed.
Dump flour mixture out onto your counter and gather/push it into piles, pulling & pushing the dry flour pieces to the dough - gathering it into a ball.
With floured hands - pat down the dough into a rectangle-ish shape that is about an inch high.
Cut dough into 4 pieces with a knife or bench scraper and stack them one on top of the other & pat down back into a rectangle shape.
Cut dough into 6 even squares.
Place biscuits and any scraps on a parchment-lined baking sheet with sides of biscuits touching and spread melted butter on top
Bake at 450 for 12-15 minutes or until the tops start to lightly brown.
EAT THE BISCUITS!