Best Aunt Beas Baking Powder Drop Biscuits Recipes

BEST EVER DROP BISCUITS (SMALL BATCH)

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 475 degrees.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt in large bowl. Combine buttermilk and 1/4 cup melted butter in medium bowl, stirring until butter forms small clumps.
• Add buttermilk mixture to dry ingredients and stir with rubber spatula until just incorporated and batter pulls away from sides of bowl.
• Using greased 1/4-cup dry measure, scoop a scant amount of batter and drop onto parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet. Repeat with remaining batter, spacing biscuits about 1 1/2 inches apart.
• Bake until tops are golden brown and crisp, 8 - 12 minutes. They can be made up ahead of time and gently re-heated in a 300 oven for 10 minutes.
• Brush biscuit tops with 1 tablespoon melted butter. Transfer to wire rack and let cool 5 minutes before serving.
• Test if baking powder is fresh: Mix 2 teaspoons of the baking powder into a cup of water. If there is an immediate reaction of foaming and fizzing, the baking powder is okay to use. If the reaction is at all delayed or weak, throw it away and buy a fresh can.

EASY BAKING POWDER DROP BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Mix flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a bowl. Cut in the cold butter with a knife or pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add milk a little at a time, stirring lightly between additions.
• Drop the batter by spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet, and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until the tops are golden.

SIMPLE BAKING POWDER DROP BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450,.
• Sift dry ingredients into bowl, cut in shortening (or substitute) until it resembles coarse crumbs.
• Make a well; add milk all at once and stir quickly with fork just until dough follows fork around bowl and all ingredients are combined.
• Grease baking sheet, drop dough by rounded tablespoons or teaspoons onto baking sheet.
• Optional: Sprinkle tops of biscuits with parmesan and garlic powder or garlic salt before baking.
• Bake 12-15 minutes.

DROP BAKING POWDER BISCUITS

Steps:

• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Blend the shortening into the flour using fingers or a tool for cutting in butter.
• When uniform crumbly consistency, make a well in the center. Pour all the milk in at once and then stir just until blended. Don't stir any longer or the biscuits will be tough.
• Drop by large spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet or into greased muffin tins.
• Bake 10-15 minutes at 450 degrees.

EASY DROP BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°. In a large bowl, combine the first 5 ingredients. Cut in shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. In a small bowl, whisk milk and egg. Stir into crumb mixture just until moistened. , Drop by 1/4 cupfuls 2 in. apart onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake until golden brown, 10-12 minutes. Serve warm.

BAKING POWDER BISCUITS (DROP TYPE)

Steps:

• Sift Flour Salt and Baking Powder into mixing bowl.
• Cut in shortening until the particles are fine.
• Add milk all at once and stir just until dough clings together and flour disappears.
• Drop by spoonfulls into greased muffin cups (2/3 full).
• Bake 450 deg for 12/15 min.

AUNT BEA'S BAKING POWDER DROP BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Mix dry ingredients.
• Cut in shortening until small like peas.
• Stir in milk until elastic.
• Drop by spoonfuls onto chicken gravy.
• Bake 20-25 minutes until biscuits are puffed up and browned.