Best-Ever Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe Martha Stewart

The Best Ever Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe Is by Martha Stewart

MARTHA STEWART'S MADE-FROM-SCRATCH BUTTERMILK BISCUITS RECIPE

One of the foods that I have fond memories of from growing up are biscuits, buttermilk biscuits. They were always buttery and moist and just plain delicious! More recently, I thoroughly enjoyed the freshly baked, homemade biscuits that were delivered to my mother-in-law's home after her funeral and left determined to learn how to make a great buttermilk biscuit.

Biscuits are comfort food to me and I love the possibilities that they deliver. They are (as I recently discovered) easy to make and you can have them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You can have biscuits and gravy or a sausage or ham and egg biscuit. You can have them with fried chicken and mashed potatoes or with homemade corn chowder. Glaze them with milk and sugar and they make great strawberry shortcake.

On this page, learn how to make buttermilk biscuits as I did, from Martha Stewart, and you too could be eating biscuits every day. The recipe that Martha shared with me and that I'm sharing with you first appeared in a 2002 magazine and then in her 2002 Annual Recipes cookbook.

BAKING TIP

Biscuits require a gentle touch and there's no rolling pin required.

RECIPE

Cook Time
Prep Time: 5-10 Minutes
Total Time: 18 - 20 Minutes
Serves: About 12

Ingredients

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 tsps baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1.5 tsp salt
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 cup cold and unsalted butter
• 2 cups buttermilk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Measure the 4 cups of flour by spooning it into your measuring cup and levelling it with a knife.
3. Put the flour in a large bowl.
4. Whisk in the baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar.
5. Cut the butter into cubes and cut it into the flour until mixtures resembles coarse crumbs using a pastry blender or two knives. (Alternatively, as both Martha Stewart and I do, put part of the flour into a food processor, add the butter cubes and pulse a few times until crumbly. Then return the mixture to your bowl.)
6. Add the buttermilk and stir until the dough leaves the sides of bowl. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead gently a few times. Pat out into a circle that is about 1 and 3/4 inches thick. Cut with large biscuit cutter or a large glass, dipped in flour to help avoid sticking.
7. Place on pan. Biscuits can be touching.
8. Brush the tops with melted butter or milk.
9. Bake at 375 for 18 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.
10. Let cool on a wire rack (or not, if you want to eat them right away.)

BAKING TIP

The closer together you place the biscuits on the pan, the softer they will be when they are done baking.

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO

Martha's recipe and the instructions in this video really make it easy to make buttermilk biscuits, especially if you have never made them or never had success making them before. I highly recommend the video, which also does a nice job of explaining how you can use your food processor to simplify making biscuits.

BAKING TIP

Practice makes perfect. The more biscuits you make, handling the mixture gently, the better they'll be.

Have you every made buttermilk biscuits?

See you

in the kitchen!

Brenda

Culinary Favorites

MORE BISCUIT READING

You Are Making Your Biscuits Wrong By The New York Times

"The most important thing is to make biscuits a lot. A biscuit recipe, after all, is not so much a series of instructions as what martial artists call a kata - a form that rewards repetition with excellence. Kathleen Purvis, a top dog on the food des Have you ever made homemade buttermilk biscuits?

Presto Electric Salad Shooter Review

Meet the Presto Salad Shooter, a basic kitchen tool that you (according to me) should not be without.

My Presto Salad Shooter and I first met about five years ago. We were introduced at my cousin's home when we were working together to prepare supper. My cousin, Wil, handed me his Presto Salad Shooter and said, "Here you go, you do the cheese."

One meeting was all it took and the Salad Shooter and I knew it was love at first sight. I went home and purchased our very own Presto Salad Shooter Electric Slicer and Shredder and the love affair continues until this day with absolutely no disappointments or issues. Edited in 2025 to add that I own the original shooter. The one shown here is the newly refreshed model.

On this page, learn more about why I love the Presto Salad Shooter and why you will, too.

WHAT WILL THE PRESTO SALAD SHOOTER DO?

We use the shredder on a very regular basis for cheese since pizza is a Friday night staple at our house. As a matter of fact, ever since we have had the Presto Salad Shooter, there has been no problem finding a volunteer to shred the cheese. If only they were so keen to do the dishes!

As I edit this fifteen years after the original date of writing, I must confess that we don't eat pizza every week anymore. Age and healthy preferences now have us using the salad shooter for way more vegetables and way less cheese, LOL. As a matter of fact, I love using this machine when I prepare our vegetarian bourguignon. That dish comes together in my Instant Pot much faster now.

A less enticing but also occasional use for our shredder is carrots for carrot cake. If only we could eat that on a regular basis.

Here's a summary list:

It will shred cheese masterfully.
It will shred or slice quickly all the vegetables, fruits and cheese that you need.
It will shred ingredients one after the other, without being cleaned in the meantime.
It will send the food right into your salad bowl, onto your pizza or into your soup.
The slicing and shredding cones are easy to put on and to remove.
It is safe in your dishwasher, at least the loose pieces. The motor is not.
It is compact. We store ours neatly away in a rectangular Tupperware Modular Mate container.

MORE REVIEWS OF THE SALAD SHOOTER

"I love my salad shooter!" simply put by Roseanne Arvin and echoed by me.

"We laughed and laughed when we received this 'as seen on TV' slicing and, well, grating 'miracle product' as a gift. Who would actually use such a crazy thing? Well, it turns out that we would, frequently. It may not dice, but it does slice beautifully - thin and uniform, as well as grating everything from cheese to potatoes to carrots to ... you name it. We use it almost daily. If you're a vegetable eater or a cheese lover, you won't know how you lived without it. Easy to assemble and disassemble, and it's dishwasher safe, although you do have to position the parts correctly to maximize water flow and cleaning...It slices cucumbers, carrots, summer squash and similar vegetables beautifully..." - Nic Rosenau

"I hope they never stop making them." said another Brenda, Brenda Wilburn Flint. I am glad to see that they redesigned this appliance rather than discontinuing it.

"Years and years ago, someone gave my mother a salad shooter. She was so impressed - and Mother knew everything 'kitchen' - she bought me one. I don't even know how many years I had it, but she has been gone for 6 years, and it was long before that. How does anyone cook without a salad shooter?" says Knori.

"Best small kitchen appliance we own." said Sabey-baby though I would rate my Instant Pot and kettle higher, this is still a dandy little kitchen tool.

"An all-time favorite! "The grandkids are helping...and loving it!" said California Girl.

If you're a big cheese eater, you will agree with the final sentiment, "Yay for the Presto Salad Shooter and never shredding cheese again!"

In summary, the Presto Salad Shooter is a remarkably simple and useful little kitchen appliance and makes a perfect gift for anyone who loves salads, vegetables and/or cheese. Find your Presto Electric Salad Shooter here on Amazon.

See you

in the kitchen!

Brenda

Culinary Favorites From A to Z

(aka Treasures By Brenda)

Kitchenaid 7 Speed Hand Mixer From Martha Stewart's Blue Collection

Martha Stewart's KitchenAid Hand Mixer 7-Speed was one of the pieces that was part of Martha's Blue Collection of small kitchen appliances and yes, it was as good as you would expect something from KitchenAid and Martha to be. 

Unfortunately, the mixer that was actually called "Martha Stewart" was very hard to find. However, there is a similar blue hand mixer that they call crystal blue, which I have substituted on this page for Martha's robin's egg blue mixer.

This KitchenAid mixer is great because:

It's easy to use.
It's small and easy to store.
It's heavy duty.
It's well made. (It's by KitchenAid!)
It's relatively quiet.
It has electronic speed control buttons.

A couple of reviews:

"I made my first ever batch of whoopie pies with this tool and it's the bomb!" - Doughboy

"I recently bought this mixer to complete my Martha Stewart Collection. My kitchen looks lovely in white and blue. I had already bought another mixer from another brand that I kept for a couple of years. My goodness!!! What a difference!!! This one is so quiet, easier to use and so cute. I would recommend this 100 percent. Loved it!" - Cabogirl from St Louis

Please note that the specific color shown here may no longer be available but the mixer is. Find your Kitchenaid Hand Mixer here on Amazon.

See you

in the kitchen!

Brenda