How to Bake Homemade Biscuits from Scratch

Skip the cans and make your own homemade biscuits from scratch. With a little effort you can make moist or flaky biscuits for breakfast or any meal of the day in a short amount of time. The biscuits will taste just like grandma used to make for you and will excite your guests who may have never had truly homemade biscuits before. After making the biscuits a few times you will be an expert and everyone will want you to make the biscuits for them.

Things You'll Need

Measuring cups

2 cups self-rising flour, plus a small amount for dusting

1/4 cup butter or margarine plus 2 tbsp., at room temperature

3/4 cup buttermilk

Large mixing bowl

Pastry blender

Cutting board

Biscuit cutter

Baking sheet

Pastry brush

Spatula

Wire cooling rack
 

    Preheat the oven to 500 F while you mix the ingredients for the biscuits. The oven needs to preheat for a minimum of 10 minutes to be hot and ready to cook.Use the measuring cups to measure all of your ingredients. Using too much or too little of some ingredients will cause the biscuits to be too crumbly, so accurate measurements are important.Place the flour into the mixing bowl first.Cut in the 1/4 cup of butter or margarine using the pastry blender. Continue mixing until the mixture has formed coarse crumbs.Pour approximately half of the buttermilk into the flour mixture and blend until the bread mixture leaves the sides of the bowl. As the buttermilk is mixed in, slowly add the remainder of the milk until the dough is moist but not wet. Youmay not have to use all of the buttermilk. The mixture should stick to your fingers in small amounts when it is at the right consistency but you will easily be able to pull it off.Sprinkle a small amount of flour onto the cutting board and place the bread dough on top of the floured surface.Knead the dough 2 to 3 times and roll with a rolling pin until approximately 1 1/2-inches thick.Dip the biscuit cutter into the extra flour that you used for dusting.Cut the dough with the biscuit cutter and place each biscuit onto the baking sheet, sides touching, until you are out of dough or the pan is full. Do not twist the biscuit cutter while cutting or the biscuits will not turn out an equal size.Press any remaining dough together but do not roll or knead or the biscuits will be tough.Melt the remaining butter and use a pastry brush to spread across the tops of all the biscuits.Bake for 8 minutes or until golden brown on the top.Remove the pan from the oven and use a spatula to lift the biscuits from the pan onto a wire cooling rack. Serve hot or cool.

 
Tips:

Using fresher flour will yield fresher biscuits.

Machines can make you more efficient，such as Wafer Baking Machine.
 

The wafer baking  machine is mainly used for baking wafer sheet .This is electric type wafer heating oven . Adopting hearing-medium conduction technology with heating oil as medium,the plant is a new generation product developed exclusively in China based on the advanced structure of existing plants from domestic market and abroad.If offers an ideal solution for lower power consumption and overall production  cost,and keeping the same surface color for all biscuits
 

 Production line with two kinds of modes,one is GAS Heating and the other is Electric Heating ,which has the main function as follows :energy saving ,high production capacity ,high automation ,high recycle ,having long working life ,convenient operation ,few operators ,up to the national standard of energy saving and no pollution.

 
Advantages:

1. The whole shell of the production line adopts 304 Stainless Steel in accordance with the health and safety standard.

2. The electricity and transmission components are all used Siemens ,Mitsubishi ,touch screen to control and adopts the International Brand Germany SEW,SKF to make the whole line steadily.

3. In according to the clients ' requirements ,we can make a wide range of size and shape cream (chocolate ) filled wafer biscuit full automatically.

4.Unanimous heat colors of wafer block. Thanks to the scientific selection of heating components, superior material selection for baking plate and reasonable die carrier structure, the heat colors of the center and periphery of the wafer block having been baked are unanimous.

5. High rate of certified products with finished product rate of not less than 98%. Because of uniform heating and unanimous heat colors, the demoulding rate of biscuit is high with improving rate of certified products accordingly. 

Wafer Baking Machine is a good helper for you.