Alton brown biscuits

For a taste of homemade comfort, bake Alton Brown's buttery, flaky Southern Biscuits recipe from Good Eats on Food Network.

These are the most fluffy and buttery biscuits you'll ever make at home. They're just like ones you get at a restaurant. They're so tender and soft. You won't be able to eat just one!!

I can't stop baking. Evidence: cilantro cake, bread, chocolate cake, cupcakes, and biscuits, all in the last two weeks. I made the biscuits twice last week, and I think I might do it AGAIN tonight because it is the last day of my buttermilk's life. I mean, hello? Buttermilk biscuits? Yes, please, with honey. There's no delightful POP when you jab the can with a spoon, and these are significantly less buttery (I call that greasy) than the insta-biscuit, but it really doesn't take THAT much…

I practically have the recipe memorized.

I practically have the recipe memorized.

Turns out, Southern-style biscuit dough makes light and flaky deep-fried donuts.If you think you recognize this mixture from a certain biscuit recipe featured on a certain TV show, you’d be right. The difference: I fried it and glazed it. You’re welcome.Both U.S. standard and metric measurements are listed, but for consistent results, go metric.This recipe first appeared on Season 1 of Good Eats: Reloaded.

Learn the secrets of making southern-style buttermilk biscuits that bake up tall, fluffy, and light as a cloud. Homemade bread in 20 minutes or less!

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This is my grandmother's original biscuit recipe from my very first season of Good Eats: light, flaky, and perfectly buttery. Let me just say that the most important recipes you can collect are family recipes. When a couple gets married, the best gift they can receive is a handmade book of recipes from both sides of the family. A note on mixing: This method of rubbing or "cutting" fat into flour, then stirring in moisture before kneading is referred to as the "biscuit" method and is called…

We did not grow up eating buttermilk biscuits...the first time I tasted one I was hooked. So easy to make...they rise up like flaky little pillows. Perfect for a lazy Sunday breakfast...perfect anytime. I always feel that I do not make them enough. This time I made them there were only two of us. They froze nicely...we enjoyed each and every one. I always bake my biscuits in a very old black iron skillet....one of the first things I ever bought after we moved to San Francisco. I found it at…