Angel Biscuits

Angel Biscuits

jacobcrogers

1 Sep, 2022

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What makes Angel Biscuits unique is that they use both baking powder and yeast for leavening. The result is a tender delicious biscuit.

Ingredients

  • 1 (1/4 oz.) Dry Active Yeast
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 5 Cups flour
  • 3 tablespoon sugar
  • 5 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp. Salt
  • 1 tsp. Baking Soda
  • 1/2 Cup Cold butter
  • 1/2 Cup Shortening
  • 2 Cups Buttermilk
  • 1/4 Cup Melted Salted Butter optional
  • 1/2 Cup Warm Water – optional/as needed

Directions

  1. Mix all the dry ingredients together including the yeast.
  2. Add buttermilk until a shaggy dough.
  3. Knead out some.
  4. Roll out.
  5. Cut as desired.

Bake

425° for 17 to 25 minutes.

Angel Biscuits

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Course Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/4 oz. Dry Active Yeast
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 5 Cups flour
  • 3 tablespoon sugar
  • 5 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp. Salt
  • 1 tsp. Baking Soda
  • 1/2 Cup Cold butter
  • 1/2 Cup Shortening
  • 2 Cups Buttermilk
  • 1/4 Cup Melted Salted Butter optional
  • 1/2 Cup Warm Water – optional/as needed

Instructions
 

  • Mix all the dry ingredients together including the yeast.
    1 1/4 oz. Dry Active Yeast, 1 teaspoon sugar, 5 Cups flour, 3 tablespoon sugar, 5 teaspoons Baking Powder, 1 1/2 tsp. Salt, 1 tsp. Baking Soda, 1/2 Cup Cold butter, 1/2 Cup Shortening
  • Add buttermilk until a shaggy dough.
    2 Cups Buttermilk, 1/2 Cup Warm Water – optional/as needed
  • Knead out some.
  • Roll out.
  • Cut as desired.
  • Bake
    1/4 Cup Melted Salted Butter optional
  • 425° for 17 to 25 minutes.

WhatamIdoing, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons