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James Strange

Easy homemade southern biscuits recipe (without buttermilk)

3 from 6 votes
Easy fluffy and flaky homemade southern biscuits without buttermilk.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Servings: 6
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Calories: 443
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

Biscuit dough
  • 3.74 Cups All purpose flour 3 3/4 Cups or 450 grams
  • 5 Tablespoons Vegetable shortening
  • 2 Tablespoons Baking powder
  • 1 Tablespoon Sugar
  • 1.5 teaspoons Salt
  • 1.25 Cups Milk 1 1/4 Cup of regular milk
Other
  • 1/2 Tablespoon Vegetable shortening To grease the pan
  • 1/2 Tablespoon Oil Or butter for the top of the biscuits
  • 1 Tablespoon Flour For dusting the counter (if needed)

Method
 

  1. Preheat your oven to 425F or 218C
  2. Grease a baking pan with vegetable shortening
Prepare Dough
  1. Combine the flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, and mix.
  2. Add the vegetable shortening, then using your hands, pastry cutter of a food processor, cut the shortening into the flour. When finished, the dough should look like petite balls.
  3. Add your milk to the flour mixture. Gently combine the flour and milk.
  4. Turn the dough out onto your work surface (if need dust with a little flour) and shape into a long log 3/4 of an inch thick.
  5. Using a biscuit cutter cut our your biscuits and place them into your greased pan.
  6. Gather up any dough scraps and form them into more biscuits.
  7. Add oil or melted butter to the top of your biscuits
Bake
  1. Bake your biscuits in an oven preheated to 425 F until the tops are golden brown. They are now ready to serve.