Best Southern Livings Mile High Biscuits Recipes

Our Favorite Buttermilk Biscuit image

Provided by Southern Living Editors

Time 50m

Yield Makes 12 to 14 biscuits

Number Of Ingredients 5

½ cup unsalted butter (1 stick), frozen
2 ½ cups self-rising flour
1 cup chilled buttermilk
Parchment paper
2 tablespoons butter, melted

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.

Southern Living's Mile High Biscuits Recipe - (4.3/5) image

Provided by AbbyIvie

Number Of Ingredients 8

3 c flour
3/4 tsp salt
2 T sugar
1 T plus 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp cream of tartar (in spice section)
3/4 c margarine
1 egg beaten
3/4 c milk

Steps:

Combine first 5 ingredients and mix well-cut in the shortening with pastry blender. Combine egg and milk-add to flour/butter mixture-turn dough out on lightly floured surface-knead 10 times. Roll dough to 1 inch thickness-cut with 2 1/2 inch biscuit cutter (or a glass about that size). Bake on ungreased sheet at 450 for 15 minutes.