Homemade Biscuits. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Using a box grater, grate butter over the flour. Making biscuits from scratch is such a worthwhile endeavor, and it doesn't need to be challenging. This simple biscuit recipe is a snap to put together and it uses ingredients you likely already have on hand.
Moist, lightly sweet biscuits are just perfect for breakfast or a cup of tea in the afternoon.
This is as close as I could get to the store bakery version.
My husband and kids loved these just as much as the store bought biscuits.
You can have Homemade Biscuits using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Homemade Biscuits
- It's 1 cup of pancake mix.
- It's 1 1/4 cup of hot rise flour.
- You need 1 1/4 cup of milk 2% or butter milk.
- It's 2/3 cup of all vegetable shortining.
- It's 2 tbsp of soft butter spread.
We make a lactose free version with vanilla soy milk and margarine, but have made the milk variety for others. The BEST Homemade Biscuit recipe you'll ever try! Buttery, soft, and made completely from scratch, this easy homemade biscuit recipe deserves a permanent place in your recipe repertoire. This recipe is made with all butter, no shortening!
Homemade Biscuits instructions
- pre heat oven 450.
- grease or non stick spray baking sheet.
- combine pancake mix,hot rise flour,veg-shortening,& soft spread in mixing bowl.
- mix ingredients from step 3 in a bowl with a fork should lump a little.
- pour in milk and mix with ( I use a fork).till all sticks together and is doughy.
- put some flour on clean counter or were ever you'll be kneading dough..
- kneaded dough ,using flour to keep on hands and work area so it keeps sticking to you to a minimum knead dough till it seems consistent and easy to work with.
- roll out and cut into round sections ,( I use open end of a cup ,example.coffee mug ,cup etc so there nicely round and easy done.if it get stuck inside just give a shake or smack.
- add on I lightly butter tops of all biscuits with slightly melted butter before putting in oven..
- cook till golden brown ( I lightly butter once more after removing from oven with left over butter I used when buttering before baking)..
- makes around 15 biscuits.
Make these for dinner, shortcake, and all your favorite breakfast dishes! See recipe notes for make-ahead-and-freezer instructions. I've never had much luck making biscuits from scratch but this recipe produced the best biscuits I've ever made. This simple, made from scratch, butter biscuit recipe from Paula Deen is a Southern favorite for breakfast. Ingredients include all-purpose flour, cubed butter and milk.