Southern-style homemade buttermilk biscuits are easy to make with simple ingredients. Fluffy, flaky, buttery biscuits are delicious for breakfast or dinner.
1cupbuttermilkplus 1-2 tablespoons more for brushing the tops
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 425°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set it aside.
Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar.
Cut the butter into pieces and scatter over the flour mixture.
Use a pastry blender to break down the butter and mix with the flour until the butter has formed pea-size pieces.
Pour the buttermilk into the flour/butter mixture and stir with a spatula just until the mixture is combined. The dough will be slightly wet and in pieces.
Scoop the dough onto a floured surface and use your hands to gently bring it together and pat it into a rectangle, about ¾ inch thick.
Fold the dough into thirds, bringing the left side across the center and then the right side folded over. Rotate the dough so it is lying horizontally and pat out into a rectangle again, repeating the pat and folding a total of four times.
After the dough has been folded four repetitions, pat it or roll with a rolling pin out into a rectangle ½”-¾” thick. Use a floured 2 ½” biscuit cutter to cut out as many biscuits as you can from the rectangle. Place each biscuit onto the prepared cookie sheet, with the edges of the biscuits touching one another. You can gather up the remaining dough, pat it and cut it again, but the more you work the dough, the tougher the finished biscuits will be.
Brush the top of each biscuit with a little buttermilk.
Bake for about 15 minutes, until biscuits have puffed up and turned golden brown on the top.
Serve immediately or cool and store in an airtight container.