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The Best Biscuits

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By: Leigh Anne WilkesPosted: 9/10/10Updated: 12/04/20

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Biscuit

You see, I have been on a quest for the BEST biscuit for a while now. I started out looking for the best biscuit in local Portland restaurants and then decided I wanted to be able to recreate them at home.

I love me a good biscuit and I have baked my way through quite a few recipes in the attempt to create a tall, flaky, soft biscuit!

How to Make the Best Biscuits

The combination of sour cream and lots of baking powder in the recipe makes a nice flaky and soft biscuit.

The trick to a nice tall biscuit is to roll your dough out to about 1 inch thick.

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I used my trusty old biscuit cutter but you could also use the rim of glass dipped into flour.

One of the best things about this recipe is that they freeze really well.  With our reduced size family we can’t eat a whole batch of biscuits.

Flash freeze the biscuits on a cookie sheet until frozen solid.

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Then just pop them into a large ziploc baggie.  You can now have The best biscuits anytime you want!

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We decided to make our own breakfast sandwiches for dinner this week.  Everyone agreed they tasted just as good as the ones we enjoyed at the Portland restaurants and way better than the ones you get at McDonald’s and I’m sure they have to be healthier too.

Best Biscuit Sandwich Options:

We put together an egg, cheese and sausage version.  I just cut discs of Jimmy Dean Sausage and cooked it up in the frying pan.

Biscuit

You could use a fried egg but since we aren’t big fried egg fans here I used scrambled eggs instead and they worked great.

We also did a bacon version.

Biscuit

One thing the recipe does not have you do is baste the top of the biscuit with melted butter. I did this several times during the baking process.  I saw them do this at Pine State Biscuits so I decided to give it a try and it made them even better.

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Ingredients

  • 4 C flour
  • 2 Tbsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1/2 tsp soda
  • 1/2 C butter
  • 16 oz sour cream
  • 3-5 tsp water
  • Melted butter

Instructions

  • Combine dry ingredients in a bowl or your food processor
  • If using food processor, pulse until butter is small and well blended pieces or cut in butter by hand using a pastry cutter
  • Add in the sour cream and water and mix well
  • Pulse again until well mixed
  • Add more water if it is too dry (just a little at a time.)
  • Knead a few times on the counter and roll out to 1 inch thick
  • Use a biscuit cutter to cut or dip a drinking glass into flour and cut
  • Freeze individually on a cookie sheet
  • After they are frozen, place in a freezer bag to store
  • Use as needed
  • Place on an ungreased cookie sheet
  • Bake at 400 for 15-17 minutes or until top is golden
  • Twice during the baking process baste the tops of the biscuits with melted butter
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  1. Andrea says

    Posted on 11/7 at 2:58 pm

    Holey Schmoley! These are the BEST gawsh darn biscuits ever. I found them after making the cinnamon roll biscuits. I even successfully halved the recipe. Which is good and bad. Good because if I did make the whole recipe- just my hub and I would eat them ALL The Bad being- we don’t have as many leftovers and um- they store really well and don’t get as tough as regular biscuits do. Either way- it’s nice having the option. lOL Definitely going to make some breakfast biscuits if we ever have leftovers again. lol Excellent recipe and from now on- my go to recipe for biscuits. I love that I can just put it in the food processor. Absolute magic! lol Thank you!!!

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  2. brad tittle says

    Posted on 4/9 at 6:02 pm

    These are awesome so far….

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  3. Carol says

    Posted on 2/23 at 8:14 am

    My husband just made a batch of these and we both really liked them on this icy, sleeting morning in Texas! Mine with rhubarb jam and his was with blackberry. I wasn’t in the kitchen when he was making them but he said he had to add much more water than the 5 tsp called for–tho he was making by hand rather than food processor. (He prides himself on homemade biscuits.) Wonder if the method made the difference? They were delicious and glad we have extras in the freezer now. Hope to make it to Pine Street Biscuits one day.

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  4. Elicia P says

    Posted on 1/3 at 3:47 pm

    Thank you.
    I was looking for a recipe that did not call for milk and this was it. So simple to make, my 4 year old helped me and I can not believe how easy. Pulled them out of the oven and added honey butter my son added jam.

    Why have I not made biscuits before!

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    • Leigh Anne says

      Posted on 1/5 at 8:18 am

      So glad you and your son had fun making these. Nothing beats a good biscuit!!

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