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Alton Brown's Buttermilk Biscuits is for Breakfast.

Alton Brown's Buttermilk Biscuits takes several minutes to prepare.

Alton Brown's Buttermilk Biscuits takes several minutes to cook.

Alton Brown's Buttermilk Biscuits makes 12 servings.

The ingredients for Alton Brown's Buttermilk Biscuits are:

2 cups white flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons shortening
1 cup buttermilk

Here is how you make Alton Brown's Buttermilk Biscuits:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey, that's life.)Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.Number of Servings: 12Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MRSLENDA.

The nutritional information for Alton Brown's Buttermilk Biscuits is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 12
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 111.4

• Total Fat: 3.4 g
• Cholesterol: 6.5 mg
• Sodium: 224.3 mg
• Total Carbs: 17.3 g
• Dietary Fiber: 0.6 g
• Protein: 2.8 g