Alabama Biscuits Recipes

ALABAMA BISCUITS RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in warm water in medium size bowl. Add sugar, egg and 3 tablespoons of butter. Stir in 2 1/2 cups or more self-rising flour. Mix thoroughly and turn out on floured board. Knead and roll to medium thickness. Spread 1/4 cup soft butter on half of dough. Turn other half over the buttered dough. Cut with biscuit cutter or cut in squares with knife and put in greased pan. Butter tops of biscuits and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour. Heat oven to 450°F. Bake until golden brown, about 20 to 30 minutes.

ALABAMA BISCUITS

Steps:

• Lightly grease a rimmed baking sheet.
• Dissolve the yeast in the warm water in a small bowl; set aside to proof for 5-10 minutes, until foamy.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt together into the bowl of a stand mixer or a large bowl.
• Add the yeast mixture, oil, and milk and mix well.
• Knead in a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook or by hand for 5-7 minutes.
• Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of 1/4 inch.
• Cut out 30 rounds with a 2-inch biscuit cutter.
• Dip the bottom of 15 of the rounds into the melted butter and stack them on the remaining 15 rounds, to make a total of 15 biscuits.
• Arrange on the prepared baking sheet and let rise in a warm place away from drafts for 1 hour, until they double in volume.
• Preheat the oven to 425°; bake the biscuits for about 15 minutes, until nicely browned.
• Serve immediately.

ALABAMA MUFFIN BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (176°C). Butter a muffin tin containing 6 jumbo or 12 standard muffin cups.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda on low speed until evenly distributed. Add the butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, and continue to mix on low just until the mixture is crumbly and there are pea-sized clumps scattered throughout. Slowly pour in the buttermilk and stir just until the dough looks evenly moistened. (It might seem counterintuitive, but the trick is to NOT stir until the dough comes together into a ball or you will end up with a tough muffin. What you want to see in the bowl are various-size lumps of butter and wet flour with some lingering bits of dry flour.)
• Using a spoon or rubber spatula, gently stir up from the bottom of the bowl to incorporate any larger pockets of dry ingredients that remain into the batter. Using an ice-cream scoop, a large spoon, or even your hands, divide the dough evenly among the muffin cups. Since this dough remains loose and crumbly, you'll need to press it into the scoop or in your fist and glom into the cups. If you're concerned things still look dry and powdery, top each muffin with a little butter, which will, in a sense, baste the muffin while it bakes. And let's face it, since when did more butter ever make anything worse?
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes for smaller muffin biscuits, 30 to 35 minutes for large muffin biscuits. More important than the actual timing is the visual appearance-the tops of the muffin biscuits should turn a darkish golden brown and look ruggedly lumpy and, if you touch the tops, they should feel firm. Cool the muffin biscuits in the tin on a wire rack for 5 minutes then tip them onto the rack to cool or, if you just can't help yourselves, to consume immediately.

ALABAMA BISCUITS

Steps:

• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Dissolve yeast in water; Add buttermilk and add in sifted ingredients mixing well. Knead 20 times and roll out 1/4" thick.
• Cut with biscuit cutter or 1" drinking glass. Butter biscuits with brush and stack in twos, let rise for 2 hours.
• Bake at 425 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes, or until brown.

ALABAMA YEAST BISCUITS

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in warm water; add sugar, salt and shortening. Sift flour and baking powder. Add yeast mixture. Knead 10 times; roll out and cut with biscuit cutter. Butter both sides of biscuits and fold over. Let rise 1 hour. Bake at 400 degrees until golden brown.