How to Make Easy and Buttery Biscuits

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A combination of lard and butter produces flaky, tender, mouthwatering biscuits.
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@maryrichardson7029 Ай бұрын

What a great tip about trimming the edges to get a straight rise versus a slump!

@chriholt Ай бұрын

Always great to see Lawman again!

@JohnCipriano-nl8cp Ай бұрын

The best part about this recipe is the honey butter.

@JaniceWithTheTarlovCyst Ай бұрын

I remember my maternal G'Ma making such good biscuits using lard; I wish I had her recipe for comparison. I'm definitely going to try making these. Thanks Lawman!

@nicolethornton6409 Ай бұрын

She probably used self rising flour not all purpose, lard and buttermilk. And you can knead 10 times and still get amazingly fluffy biscuits.

@jaa4742 Ай бұрын

Don't use a processor

@marksieber4626 Ай бұрын

Good video. Good quick right to the point.

@kaakicooksfood Ай бұрын

I loved your biscuits making ❤

@Pixels_and_Points Ай бұрын

Great presentation style!

@patriciastacy5441 Ай бұрын

Love to watch Lawman cook❤

@LynHannan Ай бұрын

In Australia, we call those scones!

@jaa4742 Ай бұрын

So would those of us in the southern US...😂😂😂

@daveyhouston Ай бұрын

No scones are different 😔

@SylviaValdezDait Ай бұрын

I have not seen this before!!

@angelbulldog4934 Ай бұрын

No Crisco in sight! I haven't had that junk in my kitchen since the 80s. Lard and butter rock!

@jvallas Ай бұрын

They've changed the formula: "Crisco has worked to reduce its trans fat content without increasing saturated fats, and its new formula is below FDA guidelines."

@angelbulldog4934 Ай бұрын

@@jvallas Soybean oil, fully hydrogenated palm oil, palm oil, mono and diglycerides, TBHQ, citric acid,(which isn't from citrus). Where's the food? I've never listened to or believed the FDA. Now I'm seeing strong evidence (on an app where truth isn't censored nine ways to Sunday) that animal fat is what we're supposed to eat. Nut and seed oils are not good. (Olive oil being the exception). Also evidence that Crisco is actually synthetic submarine lubricant. My life bears evidence of meat fat benefits. I'm southern (American) and grew up on a farm. Lots of butter, bacon, lard, etc. I'm now 75 and take no pharmakeia. I think I'll stick to what I've been doing, but thanks for the info.

@joeybagodonuts6683 Ай бұрын

@@jvallasStill trash. It can be delicious, but it isn't even remotely healthy.

@IDontlikeubutGIVEmeyourMONEY Ай бұрын

A healthier version is spectrum shortening or nutivia shortening made from palm oil

@dale3404 Ай бұрын

@@joeybagodonuts6683Who expected them to be healthy?

@jesuslovesyou919 Ай бұрын

What's a good lard ?

@hellacooook 24 күн бұрын

Pork belly

@musicgirl8152 Ай бұрын

Yum! 😋♥️

@daveyhouston Ай бұрын

I like my biscuits with Alaga syrup!!

@carolynbonner1446 Ай бұрын

Biscuit look delicious

@LaciElliott-nb9mk Ай бұрын

Mannnn I'm a diehard atk fan since the beginning! 🤜✌️but I'll be damned if them biscuits don't look bonk. I effed up some pizza dough a while back, and I'm pretty sure it was less crumbly then them thangs look 😂

@MichaelWilliams85 Ай бұрын

Looks good for a quick breakfast but why skip the laminating step for flakey layers?

@mddell58 Ай бұрын

Looks almost identical to my 'bisquick' drop biscuits! I like to fry some good sausage patties & put on home-y type biscuits! 😋

@blucifa Ай бұрын

Lawman 💙

@jfess1911 Ай бұрын

What is the best substitute for lard? For some reason, virtually any pork product makes my Wife and Son sick. Thanks

@Ko1234567890S Ай бұрын

I'd try tallow

@sandrah7512 Ай бұрын

How about ATK alumnus Andrew Janjigian's Ultimate Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits. The recipe's been on their channel for over four years.

@dottiedavis355 Ай бұрын

Crisco, butter, margarine…probably lots more.

@Diromo-Olodumare Ай бұрын

Palm or coconut oil

@philaphobic Ай бұрын

Use can use all butter instead of lard and butter.

@fmradio42 Ай бұрын

Just bought a whole bunch of southern peaches from ShopRite 99 cents a pound. do you have any pastry recipes for them. thanks

@jvallas Ай бұрын

I was just looking at a nice sounding peach custard pie, with yogurt being the dairy in the custard. On the christinascucina website.

@jesuslovesyou919 Ай бұрын

@chrisbuckley1785 Ай бұрын

Who needs an introduction???😂

@kathyl3889 Ай бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@lizcademy4809 Ай бұрын

When I want Northern Flaky biscuits, I use my recipe in ATK's The Best Recipe book from the late 90s. Southern fluffy biscuits are a completely different food.

@jimjordan5630 Ай бұрын

I guess no one knows or remembers how to make hand rolled (not with a rolling pin but in your hand!) biscuits anymore. My momma's Aunt, that was like my Grandma, made the best in a bowl. Plenty of flour in the bowl (depending on how many biscuits you wanted to make) add lard or even crisco, then add evaporated milk. Squish and mix milk and lard by hand gathering a little flour as you go. Continue until a tad drier than shaggy so you can pinch off desired amount of dough, round into ball, place in greased biscuit pan and mash into round biscuit with the back of the fingers. Oh!! So good!!

@WastrelWay Ай бұрын

I'm with you on that. I was folding and beating that kind of dough (my recipe is probably different) a couple of months ago, and some people came up up here and wanted to know what all that pounding was. I said, "I'm making biscuits." They said, "You don't make biscuits like that." I said, "Your grandma did."

@jvallas Ай бұрын

I make rounds, but I use cutters. Is what you're talking about those old timey biscuits where there's a big old bowl of flour, you put ingredients on top, make your biscuits, and then put away the bowl with a bunch of flour still remaining in it? I love watching videos of those.

@jw77019 Ай бұрын

Yes if you do those every day you can become proficient and it doesn’t make a mess. Doing them once in a while doesn’t work out well.

@jimjordan5630 Ай бұрын

@@jvallas Yes!

@readytogo3186 Ай бұрын

My mama made biscuits that way, big bowl of flour, put in a hand full of crisco (never measured anything), and mashed it up with her little fingers, added butter milk, adding a little flour as needed and mixed until it could be handled, pinched off a biscuit-size piece, tucked the edges under with her little fingers and laid it in the pan. Every biscuit the same size. Never had a biscuit cutter nor rolling pin. Beautiful biscuits every time.

@busterbrown446 Ай бұрын

2 1/4 cups SR Flour 1 Stick Salted butter(cut into small cubes) 1 1/4 cups Buttermilk. Cut butter into flour, then add buttermilk. Mix. Turnout on lightly floured surface. Use biscuit or cookie cutter. Bake 15-18 min @ 475° Easy and perfect every time.

@optionout Ай бұрын

The lard?

@busterbrown446 Ай бұрын

@optionout No lard. It's my recipe, not the one they made in the video. They over complicated biscuits.

@JesseWright68 Ай бұрын

That's a lot of fat.

@WastrelWay Ай бұрын

I went out right away and bought "medium protein, about 11.7%" at the grocery store. OK, so now what do I do with it? It's amazing how ATK can over-complicate something as easy as biscuits, and then not get them brown.

@joeybagodonuts6683 Ай бұрын

Make bread, duh.

@jaa4742 Ай бұрын

I guess in the south, we have a different style of biscuit. That one is overworked and tougher than I'm used to. It looks more like a pie dough/biscuit hybrid, and flaky is not a good biscuit texture down here. I'm not opposed to the ingredients, but White Lily is the only biscuit flour my family uses. You incorporate the grease into the flour with your hands, make a flour volcano (well) adding buttermilk to the middle just until it all comes together. I think it was the processor that overworked it. By the time you clean the processor, you're only making more work for yourself, just mix it by hand.

@readytogo3186 Ай бұрын

That's the way I do it. Use the recipe on the back of the White Lily flour bag. Yummm. These look kinda like scones.

@philaphobic Ай бұрын

These don't look over worked. In fact, they could use a little more working since they were crumbling all apart. Mixing the fat into the butter doesn't "over work" dough. Overworking only happens once water (or milk/buttermik) are added to the flour. What makes you think they are overworked?

@philaphobic Ай бұрын

I was shocked when he didn't call for Lily White flour. I agree that this biscuit seems a little like a pie crust hybrid.

@jaa4742 Ай бұрын

@philaphobic Compared to what my grandmother made...that is over-worked. She would call that a beaten biscuit.You don't put biscuit dough in a processor and come out with light, fluffy biscuits. If you prefer a a denser texture, that's fine.

@SylviaValdezDait Ай бұрын

Who are these guys?

@jean-francoisdaignault9612 Ай бұрын

Still annoyed at the cold opens :( I wish they went back to full segments

@sandrah7512 Ай бұрын

Taking out the intro feels like you're walking in part way on a conversation and then by chopping off the outro, having the door shut in your face before the conclusion. I can't imagine that the people who put the work into making these recipe segments for public television in the first place are all too happy to see them hacked apart for KZfaq because someone noticed that a certain squirmy segment of the YT viewing population finds it absolute torture that they must do the "work" of fast forwarding a video to jump over an intro to the start of the recipe...or sit through said into and then complain about having to. They should add chapters - it's not like they haven't before. Not everybody wants to "cut to the chase" - ATK shouldn't cater to the ones that do with such abrupt and sloppy editing.

@bondfool Ай бұрын

@@sandrah7512 Amen!

@jean-francoisdaignault9612 Ай бұрын

@@sandrah7512 agreed. And to anyone who says it’s free content so stop complaining, nothing on yt is free, even if you don’t pay for premium. At the very least you “pay” in time spent watching ads. Also I think ATK is doing itself a disservice. These horribly edited clips seem unprofessional and cold. No history, no banter, no personality. None of what gives ATK its signature charm. Bad decision on their part.

@MrTonyharrell Ай бұрын

Those need some blueberries and sausage stuffed in the middle like Bojangles.

@Immortal10364 Ай бұрын

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@mrbear1302 Ай бұрын

Those biscuits don't look fully cooked to me?

@AmericanInThePhillipines Ай бұрын

You would be correct

@catherinemelnyk Ай бұрын

Interesting. Lard is pig fat. Crisco is vegetable oil.

@pcdosgirl Ай бұрын

✔️ Yes, and shortening is usually made specifically from soybean or palm. Both add saturated fats to recipes, however lard has a higher saturated fat content per ounce. Lard gives a slightly savory taste, while regular shortening has a completely neutral flavor. So they really can be interchanged, and the choice can be made based on dietary restriction and cost.

@catherinemelnyk Ай бұрын

@@pcdosgirl I'm guessing this is sort of Keto based...

@Katy32344 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂@@catherinemelnyk

@jw77019 Ай бұрын

@@catherinemelnykNo not keto in any way. Flour is absolutely forbidden.

@jw77019 Ай бұрын

Please do some current reading on “seed oils” and how pig fat, beef fat, bacon fat, and all animal fats are considered much healthier than any form of “vegetable” oil. We were fed the wrong information for approximately 100 years.

@avalon449 Ай бұрын

Very crumbly not flaky.

@BrightOne444 Ай бұрын

Julia is stumbling to make positive comments😂

@bondfool Ай бұрын

Starting the video the instant the recipe starts is bizarre and off-putting. What’s wrong with the way you’ve been doing it for 23 years?

@greatboniwanker Ай бұрын

Some ppl like shorter vids. To each their own.

@sandrah7512 Ай бұрын

@@greatboniwanker Exactly. Ans as such, the viewer should be the one to decide how much or how little they want to see. Do not decide for me.

@jeffcarty3292 Ай бұрын

It's great. Good new format

@rcristy 25 күн бұрын

Sitting through intros is boring

@bondfool 24 күн бұрын

@@rcristy then skip them. It takes two seconds at most.

@DrAlwaysFirst Ай бұрын

First

@wreckincrew2714 Ай бұрын

After growing up in the South, those biscuits look absolutely terrible.

@Es_Elle Ай бұрын

Agreed. Must be Northern biscuits! We do it right in the South!

@mzkist7245 Ай бұрын

Born and raised in southern California and I can see those are terrible examples of "biscuits".

@BrightOne444 Ай бұрын

They look like sandpaper. ATK… this video is not up to par

@SallyAliciaAcorn54 Ай бұрын

I’m sorry… but those look like dry bricks. Like boarding school used to make.

@KIG024 Ай бұрын

Those biscuits look terrible, they weren’t completely cooked and look doughy. That’s a waste of good ingredients.

@angelbulldog4934 Ай бұрын

I like them a little more brown, too.

@Dylanian777 Ай бұрын

They were perfect, blow it our your ahh

@angelbulldog4934 Ай бұрын

@@Dylanian777 Taste is subjective. Aren't you kind to be so polite.

@arickmccance3972 Ай бұрын

Why even comment on subjective topics. There will always be disagreements. Pointless 👎

@ChurchladyHmm Ай бұрын

@arickmccance3972 This is so true. I dont mind seeing subjective opinions, as it is how I learn other perspectives. Its when they are this rude, that it shows a lack of decorum

@DrWarbird Ай бұрын

Glad you got rid of the lame intros by the editor. This guy sure likes tattoos. Biscuits need to be round for even cooking. Those squares didn't look very appetizing. My Cracker Barrel recipe is better for sure. Easier too.

@JesseWright68 Ай бұрын

Sugar? Bad idea.

@frankhughes001 Ай бұрын

Buttermilk? Bye! I'll find a better and easier recipe. Buttermilk does not improve taste or texture. Buttermilk is a bygone ingredient that people had leftover after churning butter. Since then, buttermilk has become just another fad cheffy (I wanna Michelin Star/James Beard award) ingredient like kosher salt, olive oil, and panko breadcrumbs have become. Most supermarket buttermilk isn't even real buttermilk. BTW just say no to food processors.

@virginiadaneke2362 Ай бұрын

South talking here. A good CULTURED buttermilk adds a little tang to biscuits. With that, a low protein flour and the fat of choice a great biscuit can be made by most anybody.

@frankhughes001 Ай бұрын

@@virginiadaneke2362 Having spent some years in the south, Savanna GA, I've had many a buttermilk biscuits and pancakes, there is no "tang". They taste the same as any good biscuits or pancakes made without buttermilk. To your point, I didn't ask if they used real buttermilk or not, didn't much care at the time. However I do much appreciate your kind reply.

@hellacooook 24 күн бұрын

Turmeric juice helps relax or ice therapy/cold showers can reset behaviroal patterns.

@1900intz Ай бұрын

Can Julia get ANY closer to him? It’s uncomfortable. Had to stop watching. She does this ALL THE TIME

@bondfool Ай бұрын

Looks like a completely normal distance to me.

@DougSmith-hl1vj Ай бұрын

I don't take advice from tattooed people.

@busterbrown446 Ай бұрын

Wow. Your comment is the most judgemental comment I've read on the internet. Good grief, what a narrow lens you look through.

@76monikaW Ай бұрын

Crisco and lard is totally awful for a persons health. Use real butter only or tallow.

@sociopathmercenary Ай бұрын

Folks giving health advice on a biscuit video... Really?

@lji_btrfly Ай бұрын

Isn't tallow just the beef equivalent of lard? How is it healthier? Are any saturated fats really any healthier than others? They should all be only in moderation.

@Es_Elle Ай бұрын

My grandma used lard and she is nearing 101 years of life. She made a pan of fresh biscuits every morning. #SouthernLife

@jvallas Ай бұрын

Crisco has worked to reduce its trans fat content without increasing saturated fats, and its new formula is below FDA guidelines.

@brt5273 Ай бұрын

Too crumbly and falling apart.

@barbarac8422 Ай бұрын

NO LARD! Not everyone eats pork products!!!🤢🤮

@Dylanian777 Ай бұрын

THEN DONT USE IT

@barbarac8422 Ай бұрын

@@Dylanian777 I'M NOT!

@TheRSTD1 Ай бұрын

I EAT PORK PRODUCTS!!!!!!! 👋🏻

@sunshinemuldoon Ай бұрын

Not every recipe is for everyone. :)

@barbarac8422 Ай бұрын

@@TheRSTD1 I prefer not to eat land buzzards, which is what pigs and hogs are.

@sandrah7512 Ай бұрын

Those biscuits do not look fully cooked. 😕Considering all the opportunities they have with multiple batches of "food twins" for each segment to avoid this situation, it's odd they let the biscuits be presented as they were. Even in their Season 16 outtake video, you see Lawman approach the oven as Julia says, "How are they looking?". He opens the oven, turns and says, "Looking like they need to be baked a little longer." Then laughter. It doesn't look like they waited much longer than that. Maybe they were shooting the biscuit segment at the same time as they were baking the Basque-style cheesecakes. Apparently they made seven of those to cut into to get beauty shots for TV. No oven real estate left for flaky biscuits? Reminder to folks from a 2019 What's Eating Dan video that there is more than one type of biscuit in the land: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l6ljfNeT2NPMhqM.html