How To Make Flaky Biscuits From Scratch: Recipe and Video Tutorial

If you have ever walked into your kitchen to prepare a meal only to find out that you have run out of bread, have no fear! These biscuits come together very quickly and taste delicious. These are ready in 20-25 minutes and are great with soup, for biscuits and gravy or to make sandwiches out of.

Here are a couple of things to remember to make your biscuits a success.

• Make sure butter is COLD. We don’t want to actually blend the butter into the flour mixture. Instead we want to cut the mixture in, leaving chunks of butter to help make the biscuits flaky
• Use a light hand when making these and don’t over mix or over handle the dough. The more you mix/handle your dough, the more you will develop the gluten causing a tougher biscuit.
• Use a biscuit or other SHARP cutter when making your biscuits. If your biscuit edges get pushed together instead of being cut, the biscuits will not rise into towers of flakiness.

Most of all, DON’T GIVE UP! Biscuits can be a bit of a learning curve and it may take a few times for you to get the knack of it. But once you figure it all out, you will NEVER buy canned biscuits again.

Enjoy! -Janelle

Fast and Easy Flakey Biscuits

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

20 mins

 

These biscuits are quick to pull together and are so much better than canned biscuits.

Author: Parsnips and Parsimony

Recipe type: Breads

Serves: 8-12

Ingredients

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 Tbsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup COLD butter or shortening
• 1½-2 cups milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 450°
2. In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and salt
3. Cut up cold butter and add to flour mixture.
4. Using a pastry cutter, fork or two knives, cut the butter until it is in pea size chunks
5. Add 1½ cup milk. If the dough does not stick together, add a little bit more milk. You don't want these super moist so they won't roll, but they need to be moist enough to stick together.
6. On floured surface, dump out dough and gently knead the dough 4-5 times just to pull the dough together.
7. Roll dough out until ½" to ¾" thickness.
8. Using a biscuit cutter or sharp edge cup, cut out biscuits
9. Reroll the dough again and cut out more biscuits.
10. Repeat until all of the dough is used up.
11. Place on greased baking sheet or on well-seasoned baking stone
12. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.

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