Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1½ tsp fine salt
• 1 tbsp granulated sugar
• ¾ cup cold unsalted butter, cubed
• 1¼ cups cold buttermilk
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted

Method

1. Heat the oven to 450°F and line a sheet pan with parchment.
2. Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar. Work in the cold butter with a pastry blender or your fingertips until the pieces are the size of peas.
3. Stir in the buttermilk with a fork just until a shaggy dough forms.
4. Turn it out on a floured counter, pat it into a rectangle, fold it in thirds and pat it out again. Repeat twice more, finishing about 1 inch thick.
5. Cut straight down with a floured 2½-inch cutter without twisting, and set the biscuits on the pan so they touch.
6. Bake until tall and golden, 14 to 16 minutes, then brush the tops with the melted butter.

Notes