Southern Buttermilk Yeast Biscuits Recipes

SOUTHERN BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cut butter into flour until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in buttermilk just until moistened. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead 3-4 times. Pat or lightly roll to 3/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. biscuit cutter. , Place on a greased baking sheet. Bake at 425° until golden brown, 11-13 minutes. Brush tops with butter. Serve warm.

OUR FAVORITE BUTTERMILK BISCUIT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475°F. Grate frozen butter using large holes of a box grater. Toss together grated butter and flour in a medium bowl. Chill 10 minutes.
• Make a well in center of mixture. Add buttermilk, and stir 15 times. Dough will be sticky.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Lightly sprinkle flour over top of dough. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll dough into a ¾-inch-thick rectangle (about 9 x 5 inches). Fold dough in half so short ends meet. Repeat rolling and folding process 4 more times.
• Roll dough to ½-inch thickness. Cut with a 2 ½-inch floured round cutter, reshaping scraps and flouring as needed.
• Place dough rounds on a parchment paper-lined jelly-roll pan. Bake at 475°F for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Brush with melted butter.

CLASSIC SOUTHERN BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven and set up: Preheat the oven to 475°F. Place a little flour in a shallow dish and keep it next to your dough.

SOUTHERN BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.
• Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey, that's life.)
• Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.

SOUTHERN BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425°F. Line a sheet tray with parchment paper.
• Grate 8 tablespoons of the butter or dice it very small and place it in the freezer for 15 minutes. Add the buttermilk to the freezer during this time as well.
• In a large bowl stir together the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and baking soda. Add the butter.
• Cut it in with a pastry cutter or you can use two forks. The mixture should appear crumbly with no larger than pea-sized pieces of butter.
• Pour in ¾ cup of buttermilk (if any of the buttermilk started to freeze, just break it up with a fork). Stir until combined, mixture will be crumbly, with some of the flour not fully mixing in.
• Lightly dust a clean work surface with more flour. Pour out the dough mixture and work it with your hands to form a ball.
• Roll the dough out into ½ inch thick rectangle.
• Fold ⅓ of one side over the center. Fold the other ⅓ on top. Roll it out into a ½ inch rectangle again and fold the same way. Repeat 1 more time.
• Do the tri-fold one last time but this time roll out the dough into a 1-inch thickness.
• Using a 2 ½ inch biscuit cutter, cut out the biscuits. DO NOT TWIST THE BISCUIT CUTTER. Place the biscuits slightly touching onto the parchment-lined sheet tray.
• Roll the scraps back into a ball and roll it out again to cut more biscuits. Keep doing this until you have 8 biscuits.
• Brush the tops of the biscuits with the remaining 1 tablespoon of buttermilk. Bake for 13-15 minutes until puffed up and the tops are golden brown.
• While the biscuits are cooking, melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter.
• Immediately brush the tops of the biscuits with the melted butter. Let cool slightly and serve.

YEAST BISCUITS

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in water, set aside.
• Mix dry ingredients in order given; cut in shortening until the size of small Lima beans.
• Stir in buttermilk and yeast mixture.
• Cover bowl with towel and let sit until ready to use. (At least 1 hour, but it is fine if it sits for a couple hours.) Dough will be very sticky.
• Scrape out onto well floured board.
• Flip over and knead lightly (4-6 times).
• Roll out and cut with biscuit cutter.
• Place on greased pan and let raise slightly (10-30 minutes).
• Bake at 400 F until light brown, 10-12 minutes.

TEENA'S OVERNIGHT SOUTHERN BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Sift together the flour and sugar in a large bowl. Cut in the shortening until the mixture has a fine crumb or cornmeal texture. Stir in the buttermilk with a fork until a soft dough forms.
• Turn the dough out onto a floured surface, pulling off any pieces sticking inside the bowl. Gather dough into a ball and knead about 20 times, until smooth and elastic. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Working on a floured surface, roll or pat the dough out to 1 inch thickness. Cut into rounds with a 2 inch biscuit cutter, or the floured rim of a glass, by pressing straight down and up. Twisting the cutter will prevent the biscuits from rising as high. Place biscuits about 1 inch apart on an ungreased baking sheet, and allow to rest a few minutes.
• Bake in preheated oven until lightly brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Serve warm.

SOUTHERN BUTTERMILK YEAST BISCUITS

Steps:

• To water add yeast and set aside. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Add Crisco to flour and mix until well blended. Add sugar to buttermilk and mix thoroughly. Add milk mixture to flour mixture and mix well.
• Spoon onto floured paper towels (or your choice) and sprinkle well with flour. Knead into a well rounded ball and pat out to about a saucer sized dough. Cut this into 5 biscuits and place in small enough heavy pan (I prefer pampered chef pans) to where sides of biscuits touch each other. Spread tops of biscuits with buttermilk.
• Bake in 425 degrees F oven until nicely browned.

BUTTERMILK YEAST BISCUITS

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in warm water in a small bowl and set aside.
• Sift next 5 dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
• Add remaining ingredients and yeast mixture to large bowl of dry ingredients and mix well.
• Store in covered container or ziploc bag in refrigerator until ready to bake.
• Pinch off into bisquits and bake in an ungreased pan for 20 minutes at 400.