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5 Of The Best Recipes For Homemade Biscuits

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July 24, 2018 by Rhonda Leave a Comment

Nothing says country living like the smell of fresh homemade biscuits in the oven. Waking up at Granny’s house meant the smell of hot homemade biscuits, homegrown bacon, and heavenly dripped coffee. Even after all these years, these smells transport me back in time to a young girl crawling from beneath handmade quilts and skipping to the kitchen to find love and breakfast. Who knew then how precious those days would become? We’ve gathered five of the best homemade biscuit recipes for you so let’s get baking!

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Homemade Biscuits

Biscuit recipes, like cookie recipes, can become closely guarded secrets. I knew a lady in Mississippi who would shoo everyone out of the kitchen when she got ready to assemble her biscuits. She was known for their deliciousness all over the county but when asked about her recipe she would say, “over my dead body”.

Kind of like this cookie recipe I saw somewhere:

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#1 Granny’s Southern Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe

My Granny taught me to cook and this included her homemade biscuit recipe handed down through the generations. In the cookbook I’ve been building for my sons for the last 15 years, I gave them the recipe for Granny’s homemade biscuits but I’ve never shared it with anyone else…until now.

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Granny’s Southern Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe Ingredients

  • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 Tbs baking powder (make your own)
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter cut into small pieces(leave in frig until ready)
  • 1/2 cup cold buttermilk (you can use milk or make your own buttermilk – see note below)
  • 1/4-1/2 cup water

Granny’s Southern Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400.
  2. Put oil in the bottom of a large cast iron skillet only to cover the bottom.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, combine the first 3 ingredients well.
  4. Remove butter from the frig and cut into small pieces.
  5. Using a hand-held pastry blender or fork, combine butter with flour until butter resembles coarse crumbs. Do not mix too long or the butter will soften too much before baking and you don’t want this to happen.
  6. Make a well in the middle of the flour using the spoon you combined the dry ingredients with.
  7. Next, add 1/2 cup of buttermilk and 1/4 cup of water and mix with a pastry blender (hand tool, not electric) or you can use your spoon.
  8. If the dough is too dry and crumbly, add a little buttermilk, and if you need more, a little water.
  9. This is tricky. You don’t want the dough to be too moist or runny and you don’t want it to be dry either.
  10. Next, place a little flour onto a saucer and use the spoon to scoop out the dough for the size biscuit you want.
  11. Place the dough gently in the flour and turn it once to coat the other side, but not too much, only a dusting.
  12. Pat and roll the biscuit into a nice round shape being careful not to handle too much.
  13. Place it in the skillet and turn it over so both sides are oiled. I put the ugly side down.
  14. Once you have done this with all the dough, place the skillet into the oven and wait….25 mins or so until the tops are golden brown.
    You should have light, fluffy biscuits like Granny always made.

#2 Vegan Coconut Oil Biscuits

Here’s a recipe for Vegan Coconut Oil Biscuits. You know what a big fan I am of coconut oil in the kitchen and for its many uses around the homestead. You can get this recipe at The Health Family and Home

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#3 Grandma’s Homemade Biscuits

If you are looking for a different variation of your grandma’s classic biscuit recipe, this one just might do the trick. You can get this recipe at Pioneer Settler.

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#4 Country Biscuits From Scratch

This recipe uses food storage items to make homemade biscuits in under 20 minutes. Not only is it fast, but the biscuits will also please your hungry family as well. You can get this recipe from The Health Family and Home

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#5 Chocolate Chip Biscuits

Who could resist sharing a special Chocolate Chip Biscuit S’mores recipe? If you’re like me and love a good pastry with your morning coffee, these might just be what the chef ordered.

After all, biscuit recipes are so diverse they’re almost begging to be artfully blended with whatever your mind can imagine. You can get the recipe at Sugar and Charm.

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You might also enjoy more from scratch recipes.

Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie Recipe (my great-grandmother’s recipe)

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As always, we’re here to help.

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About Rhonda

Rhonda Crank – Founder of The Farmer’s Lamp
I’m Rhonda, a Southern-born and raised farm girl from the Deep South with over 45 years of homesteading experience. With 7 generations of farmers behind us, The Farmer’s Lamp embraces the full spectrum of homesteading—gardening, raising chickens, and more. We share Southern style from-scratch recipes, Einkorn recipes, and more, all while staying true to organic, non-GMO principles. Our approach blends the time-honored wisdom of our grandparents with a touch of modern ingenuity, keeping these traditions alive and thriving.

Notable Roles: Chief Editor of Homesteading Today Magazine, Author, and Contributor to Countryside Magazine, Backyard Poultry Magazine, Homestead Livestock Summit, and Grit Magazine.

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