A tried-and-true family favorite from Becky's own recipe collection. Here's everything you need to make Easy Butter Swim Biscuits at home.
Easy Butter Swim Biscuits
Makes 12 biscuits · ~195 calories per serving (estimated) · 21 min prep · 22 min cook
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 1 stick butter
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 4 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
- Combine all of the dry ingredients in a medium-size bowl.
- Add the buttermilk and mix all together until a moist dough is formed.
- Melt the butter in a microwave-safe bowl, and then pour it into an 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish.
- Place dough right on top of the melted butter and use a spatula to spread it evenly across the pan until it touches the sides.
- Cut the unbaked dough into 9 evenish squares.
- It should be swimming in butter.
- Bake 20–25 mins or until golden brown on top.
From Becky’s handwritten notebook
Every recipe on this site started the same way — written by hand in Becky’s spiral kitchen notebook, usually with a dinner bubbling on the stove nearby. Here’s the original page this recipe was typed up from, smudges and all:
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