The Best Southern Biscuits are blue-ribbon worthy, without a doubt! You’ll be happier than a clam at high tide as you munch on these steaming hot, tender, buttery mounds of golden beauty. Smother them with some salty butter and your favorite fruit-flavored jam and you’ll feel like you’re living in high cotton. The best part of all, these little bites take less than thirty minutes to whip up so you can plop yourself on the porch with a glass of sweet iced tea in no time. Well, we reckon’ you’re fixin’ to make The Best Southern Biscuits soon, so don’t forget to holler at us when you do!
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more, for a worksurface
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons butter, cubed
- 3/4 cup milk, plus more, to taste
Directions
Step 1 –Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
Step 2 –Butter the bottom of a skillet.
Step 3 –In a large bowl, combine the flour, the sugar, the baking powder, and the salt together.
Step 4 –Cut the butter into the flour mixture until it begins to look like cornmeal.
Step 5 –Make a well in the flour mixture and slowly add 3/4 cup of the milk into the middle of it.
Step 6 –Knead the dough with your fingers and add more of the milk if needed.
Step 7 –Roll the dough onto a lightly floured surface and roll it out to the desired thickness.
Step 8 –Cut the dough with a small biscuit cutter.
Step 9 –Place the biscuits in the prepared skillet and bake until they are golden-brown, about 12 minutes.
Step 10 –Serve.