Grandma's Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 8 tablespoons salted butter chilled in freezer and cut into slices
- 3/4 cup cold buttermilk
- buttermilk for brushing
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or spray with nonstick cooking spray.
- Mix flour, baking powder and baking soda together in a large bowl.
- Cut butter into the flour mixture until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Make a well in the center of the mixture.
- Pour in buttermilk; stir until just combined.
- Turn dough onto a floured surface, and shape into a rectangle.
- Fold the rectangle in thirds.
- Turn dough a half turn, gather any crumbs, and flatten back into a rectangle.
- Repeat twice more, folding and pressing dough a total of three times.
- Roll dough on a floured surface to about 1/2 inch thick.
- Cut out 12 biscuits using a 2 1/2-inch round biscuit cutter.
- Transfer biscuits to the prepared baking sheet.
- Brush the tops of biscuits with additional buttermilk.
- Bake in the preheated oven until browned, about 15 minutes.
Notes
Adapted from allrecipes