I love this Easy Buttery Biscuit Recipe. And, ah, call me strange, I know when people think of biscuits the stereotypical round biscuits come to mind, But these are square and I love them (especially with butter, honey, or jam spread on them!)
Homemade biscuits don’t get a ton of respect, but they are a basic, wonderful addition to so many meals. Some biscuits are as hard as a hockey puck and dry, but others are buttery, warm, and wonderful. My favorite way to eat a biscuit is to fill it with fixin’s and make a breakfast sandwich out of it. The next favorite way is to drench biscuits in gravy and eat it in small pieces.
You can pop open a tube of Pillsbury Grandes, Hungry Jack Buttermilk Biscuits,or you can make your own on a nice baking sheet. And I always vote for scratch-made, like these easy, homemade buttery biscuits. Reader Penny made these swimming-in-butter biscuits and I was intrigued, so we made them again this weekend and, wow I wanted to share this recipe with you and a lot of other Amish and Mennonite recipes for biscuits.
Easy Buttery Biscuit Recipe
All biscuits, frankly, are basically the same - flour, butter (lots, hopefully), eggs, salt, and a baking agent and you stir all together Obviously if you are counting calories or wanting protein, biscuits aren't your best bet.
For these biscuits, if you don’t have buttermilk, Penny advises that you can use one tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar to one cup of milk and let it sit out at room temperature for 10 minutes. It’ll become a viable buttermilk substitute. Other buttermilk substitutions can be found here.
🙋 FAQ
The Amish are all about the basics when it comes to baking. Flour, butter, salt, milk and a few other ingredients are the building blocks of baking. For that reason, biscuits are a natural fit in the Amish kitchen. Basic and versatile, they can be served for breakfast with gravy or included in a chicken supper. Their versatility makes them prized!
These biscuits are "slice and serve", you bake and then cut these. Penny cut these into uneven squares, she wanted some "biscuit bricks" for her husband's lunch (I can go along with that!). She said to make sure you use a shallow enough pan for these easy, homemade buttery biscuits so that the butter doesn't overflow and drip into your oven. That is how buttery these are!
With this recipe, the dough is spread directly over the butter. And when you are done if you really feel you want more butter you can brush butter on the top, but that's optional if you don't care about calories!
Amish biscuit recipes tend towards the simple. I mean, there are only so many ways you can fix biscuits. Amish cooks do often like to pair biscuits with stews and soups. Oh man, that is pure bliss. The hard hockey puck biscuits actually fare pretty well in a bowl of steaming stew, they soften up and become a great complement. So let's browse biscuits below.
There are a lot of advantages to making biscuits in a 9 X 13 pan. No biscuit cutters or pastry cutters. Plenty of butter to soak in and easy to make that breakfast sandwich! Or spread with cream cheese. You can store these biscuits in an airtight container and they will keep for awhile. Or you can stick them in the freezer to keep.
🍞 Easy, Homemade Buttery Biscuit Ingredients
- 2 1 /2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 1 stick butter
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
📋 Baking Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
- Combine all of the dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl.
- Next, add the buttermilk and mix all of the ingredients together until a moist dough is formed.
- Melt the butter in a microwave safe bowl, and then pour it into an 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish (make sure that your pan is not too small or shallow so that the butter doesn't drip out of the pan while it's baking).
- Place the dough right on top of the melted butter and use a spatula to spread it evenly across the pan until it touches the sides.
- Cut the unbaked dough (it should be swimming in butter at this point) into 9 evenish squares.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown on top.
👨🍳Amish and Mennonite Biscuit Recipes
Okay, check out these recipes for biscuits from skilled Amish and Mennonite bakers
Mrs. Mast's Emergency Biscuits
Such a good, quick recipe!
Another burst of buttery bliss!
Easy and delicious!
This is an example of how biscuits can be paired with stew for a good meal.
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Easy Buttery Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 1 stick butter
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees
- Combine all of the dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl.
- Next, add the buttermilk and mix all of the ingredients together until a moist dough isformed
- Melt the butter in a microwave safe bowl, and then pour it into an 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish
- Place the dough right on top of the melted butter and use a spatula to spread it evenly acrossthe pan until it touches the sides.
- Cut theunbaked dough (it should be swimming in butter at this point) into 9 evenishs quares. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown on top.
Pat
I haven't tried this yet, but based on other similar recipes it is bound to be a 5 star. Thank you for sharing. Looks great.
Joyce Sneddon
Kevin, How about Willie Nelson and Ray Charles singing "Seven Spanish Angels"?
Or absolutely any of the duets Pavarotti sang! My personal favorites were the one he sang with Sting - Panis Angelicus or the one he sang with Zucchero - Miserere. Or also Holy Mother which he sang with Eric Clapton.
I believe Willie and Pavarotti had voices which you only hear once in a generation.
Debie
I've made these before and it's one of my favorite recipes. I have never used an egg in a biscuit recipe, could you point me towards one of your recipes that does? I'd like to try one.
Connie
There are 7 errors in the directions of this recipe!!!
Kevin Williams
Hi, COnnie, could you elaborate? I Just read the instructions and they seem fine...