Southern Biscuits

Southern Biscuits
Yield
12biscuits
Yield
12biscuits
Southern Biscuits
Yield
12biscuits
Yield
12biscuits
Ingredients
  • 465grams White Lily Self-Rising Flour
  • 15grams baking powder
  • 4grams coarse saltcourse
  • 22grams sugar
  • 170grams salted butterfrozen
  • 400grams buttermilkvery cold
  • 50grams egg
  • 50grams water
Yield:
Instructions
  1. Mix flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl.
  2. Grate butter over bowl of dry ingredients.
  3. Using your hands, gently mix to just coat butter shavings. Avoid crushing the grated butter back into a mass.
  4. Once shavings are coated, they won't stick. Now cut in the butter by grinding handfuls of the mix between your fingers and palm.
  5. Drizzle buttermilk into flour-butter mixture.
  6. Using your hands or a spoon, mix in buttermilk until dough just barely comes together -- 12 to 18 turns of the spoon.
  7. The mix should be wet to the touch.
  8. Lightly flour the dough, and press it into a ball.
  9. Place on a tray lined with parchment paper.
  10. Form dough into a rectangle 8 in by 11 in, and about 1 in thick.
  11. Freeze 10 minutes for easier cutting.
  12. Cut into 12 squares, and pull them apart by about 3⁄16 in.
  13. Make an egg wash by mixing equal parts eggs and water until thin.
  14. Brush onto the biscuits.
  15. If making ahead, freeze for baking later.
  16. To serve, bake at 400 °F until golden, about 15 minutes, or until the core temperature reaches 190 °F