Best Southern Style Biscuits Recipes

EASY SOUTHERN-STYLE BISCUITS

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 400.
• 2. Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Transfer to a food processor along with the butter, cut into small pieces. Pulse 5-6 times until just blended.
• 3. Return flour mixture to bowl, and add 3/4 cup milk. Stir until dough can easily be formed into a ball. If mixture is too dry, slowly add up to 1/4 cup more milk until proper consistency is reached.
• 4. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes.
• 5. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Put the dough directly on the baking sheet and use hands to press into a rectangle approximately 1 inch thick. Cut dough into biscuit shapes using a floured glass or biscuit cutter.
• 6. Organize biscuits on pan so that sides are touching. Bake 10 - 12 minutes until golden brown. Watch carefully to avoid burning bottoms.

SOUTHERN STYLE BISCUITS

Steps:

• 1. Use a smidgen of Crisco to grease your 12" skillet.
• 2. Use a pastry knife to mix the flour and Crisco.
• 3. Add the milk and mix with a wooden spoon until you have a moist ball.
• 4. Place on a floured surface and roll to thickness that you would like. These biscuits will not rise much.
• 5. Use a biscuit cutter or a drinking glass to cut your biscuits to the size that you want.
• 6. Brush the tops with a dab of water (my grandmother use to brush the tops with bacon grease).
• 7. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven; broil the tops for a brown crunch.

PILLSBURY BISCUITS SOUTHERN STYLE (BAKING DIRECTIONS) - NUWAVE -

Steps:

• Place 6 Pillsbury southern style Biscuits in your Nuwave - Flavorwave oven.
• Place on 4 inch rack.
• Bake on HI for 12 minutes for golden brown.
• If you bake all 12 Bake on Hi for Approx 14 minutes.
• For a treat butter biscuit and add nutella spread (Hazelnut spread) and enjoy.

SOUTHERN-STYLE BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. Place 2 cups flour in a large bowl. Cut in butter until butter is the size of peas. Stir in 1 cup milk. Dough should be wet and sticky; if needed, stir in some of the remaining milk., Place remaining flour in a small bowl. Using a 1/4-cup measuring cup dipped in flour, remove 1/4 cup dough from bowl and drop into flour; gently turn to coat. Place in greased cast-iron or other ovenproof skillet., Bake until golden brown, 20-25 minutes. Brush with melted butter; serve warm.

VEGAN "BUTTERMILK" SOUTHERN STYLE BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Use your mixer, or use a large-ish mixing bowl. Add dry ingredients and mix together with a fork so ingredients are combined thoroughly.
• Then add the Earth Balance and cut into the dry mixture with two knives scissoring against another (or use mixer). The consistency should be lumpy/flaky and E.B. should be about pea-size, as it is important to keep it mealy/flaky for flakier biscuits.
• Next measure the soymilk and add the lemon juice to it, allowing it to sit for a few minutes (the lemon juice sours the soymilk giving it a buttermilk like taste).
• Add the soymilk mixture and mix thoroughly (until combined) but do not over mix (occasionally I have to add a few extra tblsp. of soy milk, if the dough isn't completely incorporated at bottom of mixer). The dough texture should be able to be handled and formed easily, without losing shape (a bit tacky is okay but not sticky). Flour a board and gently roll dough into a log, cut into 7-8 generous slices, place on sheet (with the cut sides on the side and the top on the top) and bake until golden (15 minutes approximately).

RAY GREGG'S BATCH BISCUITS (SOUTHERN STYLE)

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450-degrees.
• Measure flour into mixing bowl.
• Cut the shortening into the flour until it is cornmeal consistency (Ray used his hands for this -- sort of pinching and squeezing to blend together -- nowhere near cornmeal consistency.).
• Add milk. If dough is not pliable add enough milk to make a soft, puffy dough. Too much milk makes the dough sticky, too little milk will result in dry biscuits.
• Place on floured board and knead slightly.
• Roll out to about 1/2-inch thickness. For puffy fat biscuits roll thick, for thin crusty biscuits roll thin.
• Cut biscuits, using a 2-inch cutter. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake until golden brown (about twelve minutes).
• Substitute: To all-purpose flour, add 3 t baking powder and 1 t salt.
• Buttermilk biscuits (my preference): to the self-rising flour (or the corrected all-purpose flour) add 1/2-teaspoon baking soda, and increase milk to 1 cup.

SOUTHERN STYLE TOMATO GRAVY WITH BISCUITS

Steps:

• Place biscuits onto a medium sheet pan and bake according to package ddirections.
• Place sausage in a large saucepan, amd cook over medium-high heat for 3-5 minutes or until sausage is no longer pink, breaking into crumbles.
• Add flour and thyme, and cook 4-6 minutes until sausage is browned, stirring occasionally.
• Chop onion, and add to saucepan cooking 2-3 minutes or until tender.
• Add milk, salt, and pepper, and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to medium and simmer 2-4 minutes stirring occasionally.
• Add tomatoes and cook 3-5 minutes or until gravy is thickened stirring occasionally.
• Serve gravy over biscuits.

LAYERED SOUTHERN STYLE BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450° (500° if using a convection oven). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. In bowl, combine flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Cut cold butter or shortening into dry ingredients with a pastry blender. (Mixture will resemble coarse crumbs, with no large chunks of butter.) If butter gets very soft at this point, refrigerate mixture for 20 minutes. Add 1 3/4 cups buttermilk, stirring just to moisten all ingredients. Dough should be soft and moist; add remaining 1/4 cup as needed. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface and knead gently about 10 times, or just untl dough holds together. Roll or pat dough into a 14-by-10-inch rectangle. With short side nearest you, spread top two-thirds of dough with 3 tablespoons soft butter, leaving bottom third, closest to you, unbuttered. Fold dough into thirds (like you would fold a letter) by pulling bottom third up over center and then pulling top third over middle. Turn dough so short side faces you. Pat into a 9-by-12-inch rectangle. In same manner, spread again with 3 tablespoons soft butter and fold letter style. Turn once more in the same manner. Pat into a 9-by-12-inch rectangle; spread with remaining 3 tablespoons soft butter and fold up. Work quickly and gently so as not to overwork dough. Pat dough into rectangle 3/4-inch thick on floured surface. Cut into squares with a sharp chef's knife. Place on pan, 1 inch apart. Lightly brush tops with melted butter. Bake in center of hot oven about 20 minutes (about 12 minutes in convection), until golden brown and firm. Serve hot, warm or room temperature.

GLUTEN FREE SOUTHERN-STYLE BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 465 degrees for at least thirty minutes, placing a baking stone on the middle rack to preheat with the oven. Grease an 8" cake pan. In a 1 1/2 quart bowl, combine the first six ingredients with a whisk. Cut in the coconut oil and butter until pea-sized or smaller. Whisk the cream and egg together until thoroughly combined and stir into the flour mixture with a fork. The dough will be very soft, allow to sit for 2-3 minutes: it will stiffen slightly. Spread the remaining potato flour in a small baking dish. Scoop up a biscuit sized portion of dough and drop in the potato flour. Roll around to coat, and carefully shape into a biscuit roughly 1" high and 2" across. Place in prepared pan, snuggling the biscuits together to help them rise instead of spreading out. Place biscuits on the hot stone, raise the temp to 485 degrees and bake for 5 min. Lower the temp to 465 degrees and bake for 10-15 min, until biscuits are lightly golden and a tester inserted in the middle comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan for 2-3 min, then dump on a plate. Break biscuits apart and arrange attractively.

PILLSBURY BISCUITS SOUTHERN STYLE (BAKING DIRECTIONS) - NUWAVE -

Steps:

• Place 6 Pillsbury southern style Biscuits in your Nuwave - Flavorwave oven.
• Place on 4 inch rack.
• Bake on HI for 12 minutes for golden brown.
• If you bake all 12 Bake on Hi for Approx 14 minutes.
• For a treat butter biscuit and add nutella spread (Hazelnut spread) and enjoy.

SOUTHERN-STYLE BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
• In a bowl and using your fingers, mix the flour and coconut oil together very well until the mixture feels crumbly. Add the milk and mix (but don't overmix). Knead the dough just a couple of times, then roll it out to a thickness of 1/2 inch on a floured surface. Cut into 3-inch rounds and put the rounds on a baking sheet.
• Bake for about 3 minutes, then liberally brush the biscuits with melted butter. Bake until golden, about 12 more minutes.

SOUTHERN STYLE BISCUITS

Steps:

• Cut the butter and shortening into the flour until it forms small pieces.
• Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and add the buttermilk. Stir until the dry ingredients are moistened. Use the first amount of liquid listed; add more if it seems too dry. You want a "wet" dough, but not a drippy one.
• Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently 3 to 4 times.
• Roll out to 3/4 inch thickness. Cut into biscuits with a medium or large round cutter.
• Place together on a lightly greased baking pan.
• Bake at 425 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden.
• Brush with melted butter, if desired. Serve while they are hot.