Southern Biscuit Recipe Without Buttermilk
You can make a batch of delicious Southern biscuits even if you don’t have any buttermilk. You can have hot biscuits in about half an hour with this easy recipe.
Biscuits are a mainstay in the South and all good Southerners have a recipe or two in their repertoire. My family likes it when I make a batch of my Buttermilk Biscuits.
If you are like me, then you don’t always have buttermilk on hand. Don’t let that stop you from making biscuits, though. You can easily make a batch without buttermilk.
Let’s look at how easy it is to make them.
Ingredients
To make these delicious biscuits, you need the following ingredients:
- 1 tbsp white vinegar
- 1 cup 2% milk or whole milk
- 2 ½ cups self-rising flour (plus a little extra for the baking sheet)
- 6 tbsp cold butter
How To Make Biscuits Without Buttermilk
- Place vinegar in a measuring cup. Add milk to the vinegar to the 1 cup mark. Set aside for 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 450° Fahrenheit.
- Place self-rising flour in a food processor. Cut the butter into pieces and add it to the flour. Pulsate until the butter is pea-sized. You should have a crumbly dough.
- Add the milk mixture and process until the milk has been combined with the flour. The mixture will be “sticky.”
- Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and pat it down to about 1 inch thick. You don’t need a floured rolling pin for this. Cut with a biscuit cutter (or the drinking end of a cup). Place biscuits on a baking sheet or baking stone.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Brush hot biscuits with butter.
Serve with your favorite jam or jelly, or create delicious breakfast sandwiches by slicing them open and adding egg, sausage, bacon, cheese – whatever your heart desires. Of course, they are always good with sausage gravy or the Southern favorite – cocoa gravy.
If you can’t get enough homemade biscuits, be sure to try my Butter Swim Biscuits for a rich, buttery twist, my classic Homemade Southern Biscuits for a traditional favorite, and Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuit Copycat Recipe for a cheesy, restaurant-style version. And don’t miss my Easy Sausage Gravy — it’s the perfect savory topping for any of them!
Southern Biscuits Recipe
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Place vinegar in a measuring cup. Add milk to the vinegar to the 1 cup mark. Set aside for 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 450° Fahrenheit.
- Place flour in a food processor. Cut butter into pieces and add to the flour. Pulsate until the butter is pea-sized.
- Add milk mixture and process until the milk has been combined with the flour. The mixture will be “sticky.”
- Pat out mixture on floured surface until about 1 inch thick. Cut with a biscuit cutter (or drinking end of cup). Place the biscuits on a baking sheet or baking stone.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
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Notes
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Let us know how it was!Notes About Baking Biscuits
- If you don’t have a food processor, you can use a pastry blender to cut the butter into self-rising flour.
- If you don’t have self-rising flour, you can make a self-rising flour substitution by placing 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 ½ tablespoons baking powder, and enough all-purpose flour to fill a one-cup measuring cup. For this recipe, I recommend you triple the ingredients. You can use the leftover flour mixture for dusting your work surface.
- You can use regular milk or 2% in this recipe.
- If the biscuit dough seems too wet or sticky, you can add a little extra flour.
- Using a baking stone is the best way to get the biscuits evenly browned all over. If you don’t have a baking stone, you can use a cookie sheet. Using parchment paper will make it easy to remove them from the baking sheet.
- Keep an eye on the biscuits. The baking time is listed as 10 – 12 minutes. They bake pretty quickly in a hot oven.
- You can store cooled biscuits in an airtight container / zip-top bag.
- Keep this recipe handy. The next time you want buttermilk biscuits and don’t have any buttermilk, this easy biscuit recipe is just what you need.
- Looking for a biscuit to make shortcakes with? Check out the Lemon Biscuits Recipe at Baking Me Hungry.
The best part about these easy homemade biscuits is that they are made with simple ingredients. You gotta love that.
Last Bite
Did you make these Southern Biscuits Without Buttermilk? Leave a comment below and let me know how they turned out! Don’t forget to share or pin this recipe so you’ll have it ready whenever you’re craving warm, flaky biscuits from scratch.
This is my new favorite biscuit recipe and so much better than store bought! My other half is from South Texas and he loves when I make these.
❤︎❤︎❤︎
Wonderful hardtack recipe
Well, that’s one way to describe it! I promise these biscuits are a lot softer than hardtack—unless they stayed in the oven a really long time. If something didn’t turn out quite right, I’d love to know what happened so we can help others get perfect biscuits every time.
I’m sorry if life’s been serving up some tough dough lately, Tom. Still, unkind words don’t rise well here. A little grace and good manners always make the recipe better.
great recipe
Thanks!