Easy, Homemade Buttery Biscuits

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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 it in gravy and eat it in bits.   You can pop open a tube of Pillsbury Grandes or you can make your own.   And I always vote for scratch-made, like these easy, homemade buttery biscuits. Reader Penny made these swimming-in-butter biscuits so I wanted to share this recipe with you and a lot of other Amish and Mennonite recipes for biscuits.

Easy, Homemade Buttery Biscuits

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.

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!

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.

Easy, Homemade Buttery Biscuits

📋 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

1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
2. Combine all of the dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl.
3. Next, add the buttermilk and mix all of the ingredients together until a moist dough is formed.
4. 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).
5. 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.
6. Cut the unbaked dough (it should be swimming in butter at this point) into 9 evenish squares.
7. 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!

Triple Butter Biscuits

Another burst of buttery bliss!

Sky High Biscuits

Easy and delicious!

Chicken Biscuit Stew

This is an example of how biscuits can be paired with stew for a good meal.

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