Everyone needs a little comfort food now and then ( or everyday, but I am not keeping track) and Melt In Your Mouth Buttermilk Biscuits fall within that category. My mom and my aunt have been trying to show me how to make their special tea biscuits for a very long time, but I just never quite got the hang of it. That might have been due to my lack of kitchen prowess, however, I digress. Recently my hubby, Doug, has been dabbling in the kitchen and he decided to try his hand at this oh so elusive baked good. The result was these light and flaky, Melt In Your Mouth Buttermilk Biscuits! The best part is William can have them as they are free of peanuts and tree nuts! Wanna try them out?
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of All Purpose Flour
- 2 1/2 tsp of baking powder
- 1 tsp of salt
- 1/2 tsp of baking soda
- 1/2 cup of vegetable shortening
- 1 cup of buttermilk
- 1/3 cup of raisins (preferable, for me, but not for Doug so there are no raisins in this recipe 🙁 )
Directions:
First you will want to preheat your oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit or 220 degrees Celsius and let it come up to temperature ( not one of my strong suits, but a must for Dougie. 🙂 ) You will also need to line your cookie sheet with parchment paper or tinfoil. We use tinfoil.
First step is to combine all the dry goods together in a large mixing bowl: the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Next you will need to add in the shortening. You can use a mixer, but this can get a little tough so I, I mean Doug, suggests you just chop it up into small pieces and mix those into the dry mix using a fork or spoon. At this point the mixture will crumble easily.
Now you can add all of the buttermilk into the mixing bowl, using your fork to blend it all together. This should produce a sort of sticky dough. If you are adding raisins now would be the time to do it. Once this is done dump the dough onto a floured cutting board and start kneading! Be gentle, but this is a good time to work out some of your aggression. 🙂
Now you can roll out your dough into the thickness you desire. As you can see we could not locate our rolling pin ( probably in with the kids toys having been used for a microphone or something) so we just used a floured glass! In baking, as in life, one must think on their feet!
As for the thickness of your dough a 1/2 an inch to 3/4 of an inch should be fine. You are now ready to cut out your buttermilk biscuits into shapes! The traditional shape is round, and we did do some of those, but we also used a cookie cutter for the fun of it. Whatever you use make sure to dip the end into flour before you cut out your shape. This is to avoid the dough sticking.
Place your biscuits on your cookie sheet and pop them into the oven. Let them cook for about 12 to 15 minutes or until they are a nice golden shade. A typical batch should get you about 18 to 20 Melt In Your Mouth Buttermilk Biscuits, but that will depend on the size of your, ah, cutter outer thing. I found when we used the cookie cutters that we only got about 12 to 15 biscuits.
Hot out of the oven is the best way to serve up your Melt In Your Mouth Buttermilk Biscuits! William likes his with strawberry jam, but I prefer raspberry. Emily and her dad, the baker, generally stick with butter. Any way you prepare them they will be delicious! Bon appetite!
What is your favorite comfort food?
FT&PD
Suz
Wow those look great with a little jam. Not a huge raisin fan either. Thanks for sharing and linking up with Favorite Food Friday!
Thanks for hosting Sean 🙂
Those look delicious! I actually made biscuits yesterday, my recipe is similar but uses butter instead of shortening. I love biscuits made with buttermilk they are always so light and flaky!
It’s the perfect time of year for warm biscuits 🙂
Sometimes there is nothing better then the simplicity of a biscuit and butter. These sound great, thank you for sharing Suzanne.
Exactly Randa 🙂
Those look very good and would be nice to eat hot out of the oven on a cool day like today.
Definitely Jenna, I could go for one now!
ohhhh wow! these look so good! Definitely on my list for cheat day! hot out of the oven with some butter and marmalade ooooohhh…yummy!
Thanks Paula! Ya they are loaded with not so good for your stuff, so saving for a cheat day is probably for the best 🙂
YUM! Those look so good! I wonder if I can adapt them to Gluten free and have them turn out as beautiful!!! Nothing more comforting then freshly baked bread!
I am sure you can Jenn! Although we have allergies none are wheat so I have not tried to bake gluten free, but I know it can be changed very easily. Let me know how they turn out!
Thanks, Suzanne! Well, although Doug did the work on the biscuits, you did the blog! 🙂 There are so many different recipes for biscuits and different tastes on what biscuit is the best! I like to try different recipes and I will definitely try this one. My recipe differs in that I use a level teaspoonful of sugar, regular milk and one egg. Otherwise, it is pretty much the same recipe! And, oh, I think 12 to 15 biscuits is a good yield! 🙂
Thank you Gem 🙂 You have always made super delicious biscuits. You know I love them!
Me again! That should have read “tablespoonful” of sugar. And, Suzanne, if Doug will be making biscuits on a regular basis, there is a gadget you can buy for cutting up the shortening. Just a tip there! 🙂
Thanks Gem! I’ll be sure to let the chef know 🙂
Those look delicious!. I’m going to try your recipe. I even bought a pastry cutter recently to make it easier to combine the fat and flour.
I think I will get my hubby a pastry cutter for Father’s Day 😉 Enjoy them Nicole!
Biscuits with lunch or dinner is a meal staple on Sunday’s
I totally agree 🙂
everything tastes better with a biscuit
Truer words were never spoken Darlene 🙂
I love biscuits!!
🙂 Me too!
Yum Yum Yum We love freshly baked biscuits but I’ve never made a biscuit with buttermilk! My favourite topping for biscuits is Rogers Golden Syrup mixed with butter! Omgosh, so good! Thanks for the recipe!
I am always looking for good biscuit recipes. I’ll give this a try, they look delicious.
Biscuits are my sister’s FAVOURITE treat. She can eat biscuits all day long. I have to pass on this recipe to her.
LOL, my son could eat them everyday as well. He totally loves them!
These look so good and I love making biscuits. I have a mix right now for buttermilk biscuits from Bob’s Red Mill. Now I want to make these!
looks delicious
These buttermilk biscuits look delicious soft and flaky.I have put this in my favorites file because I will be making them often.
Ooooh these biscuits look as delicious as they sound….like melt in your mouth you say?I am going to make them soon and serve them up with a good bowl of soup.
I’ve been looking for a good biscuit recipe, this one looks great! Thanks for sharing
You will definitely love these. So easy and delish! Enjoy!
i MAKE A bAKING pOWDER BISCUIT,we love it for breakfast or for a snack,its almost the same as yours
These little buns are just too delicious i made them twice this week !!
I enjoyed these hot from the oven this morning with hot tea….delicious !
yummy these look and sound scrumptious , thanks for sharing , i will def be trying them out 🙂
I love biscuits and this looks like a nice easy recipe so will have to try it.
These look delicious and easy to make. I am going to have my wife bake me up a batch (or 2!)
These biscuits look very good. I remember years ago, my hubby decided he was going to make some. They were coming along good but when he took them out of the oven he said, what happened to my biscuits, they can bounce off the wall. He then threw one at the wall and it did bounce, it was hard as a rock. He does much better with biscuits now. lol
These look delicious!
These look very good, I love biscuits!!
I haven’t made homemade biscuits before, the most I ever made as a kid was Bisquik biscuits but these look much better.
These are so delicious with a little cranberry jelly !
Had these for breakfast with homemade jelly and fresh cream,so delicious !!
So good with strawberry jam
these look great – they’ll be perfect with dinner tonight. thanks
Thank you!
Thanks!!