Now let momma show off how to make the best biscuits around! Momma’s Crunchy-Bottomed Biscuits are indeed crunchy on the bottom, but they’re also tender, flaky, and impossibly, endlessly, amazingly buttery. You may not be able to fathom just how amazingly warm and buttery Momma’s Crunchy-Bottomed Biscuits are, you’ll just know you can never go back to regular biscuits again. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will never be the same!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, frozen, plus 2 tablespoons, melted, plus more, to taste, softened, for greasing the skillet, divided
- 2 1/2 cups self-rising flour, plus more, to taste, for flouring a work surface, rolling pin, and biscuit cutter
- 1 cup buttermilk, chilled
Directions
Step 1 –Preheat the oven to 475 degrees F.
Step 2 –Grate the frozen butter using the large holes of a box grater.
Step 3 –Toss the grated butter and 2 1/2 cups of the flour together in a medium bowl.
Step 4 –Chill the butter-flour mixture for 10 minutes.
Step 5 –Make a well in the center of the butter-flour mixture.
Step 6 –Add the buttermilk to the well and stir the mixture 15 times; the dough will be sticky.
Step 7 –Lightly dust a work surface with the flour. Turn the dough out onto the floured surface and then lightly sprinkle some of the flour over the top of the dough.
Step 8 –Lightly dust a rolling pin with the flour and roll the dough into a 3/4-inch-thick rectangle (about 9×5-inches in size).
Step 9 –Fold the dough in half so the short ends meet.
Step 10 –Repeat the rolling and folding process four more times. Try to keep the dough as cold as possible throughout the entire process.
Step 11 –Roll the dough to 1/2-inch thickness.
Step 12 –Lightly dust a 2 1/2-inch round biscuit cutter with the flour. Cut the dough with the floured cutter, reshaping the scraps and flouring as needed.
Step 13 –Warm a cast-iron skillet in the oven.
Step 14 –Spread a pat of the softened butter in the skillet before adding the biscuits.
Step 15 –Place the dough rounds in the skillet.
Step 16 –Bake until the biscuits are lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
Step 17 –Brush the tops of the biscuits with the melted butter.
Step 18 –Serve.
