A few weeks ago, I made a batch of buttermilk biscuits to serve with dinner. The biscuits emerged as they always do, sugar-crusted with a light, tender interior. Everyone gobbled them up, and while historically this has been a biscuit I love, this recent batch left me wanting: more butter, more flakiness, more salt.
In need of guidance, I turned to my baking cookbooks, and in Melissa Weller's A Good Bake, I came across a recipe for flaky buttermilk biscuits. Her recipe called for a higher proportion of butter, less sugar, and more salt. She described the biscuits as "soft and flaky, rich with butter, and with a lot of layers you can see from the sides."
It sounded promising. I made them, and much to my delight, the family — and I — gobbled them up. These, to me, are perfection. When broken apart from end to end, the biscuits open accordion-style, each pleat flaking into the next. The exterior is crisp and burnished and a little bit sweet thanks to a sprinkling of turbinado sugar. Heavenly on their own, these biscuits are even better with a slick more of salted butter. What isn't?
| Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits |
Last week I mentioned I might bring back my Great Aunt Phyllis's candied yams. Here they are in all their glory, creamy, orange-scented, brandy-spiked sweet potatoes buried under a blanket of brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon-spiced pecans. This is a very classic recipe, unapologetic in its use of butter and sugar, and I have not altered the recipe a hair, but for adding salt to the purée.
| Sweet Potato Casserole |
25 Thanksgiving Side Dishes
Friends, I hope all of your Thanksgiving planning is going well. I've updated my Thanksgiving Side Dish post to include a few new favorites: buttermilk mashed potatoes, potato-leek soup, flaky buttermilk biscuits, and more.
| 25+ Thanksgiving Side Dishes |
Thanksgiving Menu 2021
In this post, you will find all of my favorite recipes for Thanksgiving, including this classic bread stuffing, red wine cranberry sauce, Alice Waters's potato gratin, buttermilk pull-apart rolls, and more.
There are printable timelines at the very bottom — I'm starting tomorrow by making a few batches of my mother's peasant bread for the stuffing.
Good luck. Gobble Gobble 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃.
| Thanksgiving Menu 2021 |
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