Trisha's Butter Biscuits

Why I Love This Recipe

For years I watched my grandma and mother magically take flour, lard or Crisco, and buttermilk and make homemade biscuits, which I considered to be the only real bread worth eating. We always had plenty of real butter and homemade blackberry jam on the table to go with them. I never imagined that I would ever be able to make a tender, flaky biscuit, not too doughy, with a lightly browned top and crispy golden bottom. After many years of being married and moving away from mom's kitchen and famous biscuits, I decided I would just have to make my own. I used my mom's recipe the first few times but one day varied the recipe as below and got better results. I made them for my mom and dad when they visited recently and my dad decided they were better than mom's. Now she makes my recipe. But I reminded her that I learned from the BEST.

Ingredients You'll Need

1/3 cup REAL butter, cut up
2 cups self rising flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 to 1 cup scant buttermilk*

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