There's not a lot that separates most Southern biscuit recipes from each other. They all include flour, buttermilk or milk, and some kind of fat - but there are a few southern secrets that'll help you make the best homemade biscuits ever, including using the right southern biscuit flour.
Classic 3-Ingredient Southern Buttermilk Biscuits
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Hand Formed Biscuits |
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Iron Skillet Biscuits |
Back in the day, when folks ate biscuits multiple times a day, every day, a large lidded bowl, filled with self-rising flour was typically used for biscuit making.