Cracker Barrel Biscuits (copycat recipe)

If you’re a fan of biscuits, especially Cracker Barrel Biscuits, this is your lucky day! My make at home version of Cracker Barrel Biscuits is receiving two thumbs up from everyone.

You know how I love a good biscuit.  This recipe is a Southern classic. It’s rumored to be the Cracker Barrel Biscuits Recipe. It calls for ingredients all self-respecting Southern cooks have in their kitchen: self rising flour, shortening, and buttermilk. If you’re a Yankee, (like me) you probably don’t have self rising flour on hand at all times. No worries. You can make your own in a minute with three simple ingredients.

Oh, one more tip, My dear friend Miss Mary(what the kids love to call her) was visiting from Mississippi a few weeks ago. I made a big batch of biscuits for breakfast one morning, and we ended up having quite a few left over. I’m kind of a biscuit snob, so I’m not one to eat a leftover biscuit. I was about to throw them away when she told me the secret to re-heating leftover biscuits…

Listen up. Split them in half. Butter both of the insides. Lay them on a cookie sheet and broil just until lightly browned and heated through. Careful not to burn. They taste fresh and almost better than the first baking. We ate up every last crumb.
The rumor about these being the Cracker Barrel recipe? I’ve eaten a Cracker Barrel biscuit and I can tell you this. This recipe makes a biscuit that’s tender and flaky, like CB’s. A bit of crunch from being baked at 450, a bit salty, which is perfect with the jam you’re going to put inside. If we’re comparing, I have to say no restaurant I’ve ever dined in serves a biscuit this good. It’s hard to beat a home made biscuit.
Get baking.

Cracker Barrel Biscuits

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Author: Si Foster

Ingredients 

• 2 cups self rising flour, or you may make your own, recipe below
• 1/3 cup solid shortening, I prefer Crisco
• 2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk, shaken
• melted butter

Self Rising Flour:

• 1 cup flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Mix together in a bowl with a fork. Store in a container or Ziploc bag until ready to use. I double this for the Cracker Barrel recipe and have a little leftover for the next time I make biscuits.
• Measure out 2 cups for the recipe above.

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Instructions

• Pre heat oven to 450 degrees, and set rack in middle of oven.
• Place the self rising flour into a medium size bowl. Cut the shortening in , using a pastry cutter, or two knives. Add the buttermilk all at once. Gently fold the buttermilk into the flour and shortening, until the dough gathers together, and the flour is mixed in. I use a large wood spoon for this.
• Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and pat gently into a disc about one inch thick. Do not over handle the biscuits, this will make them tough, and not tender.
• Gently cut the biscuits, using a biscuit cutter or glass. Place onto a cookie sheet. Brush the tops of biscuits with melted butter.
• Make sure the oven is completely pre heated and up to 450 when the biscuits are placed in to bake.
• Bake for about 15 minutes, or until golden brown on top and bottom.

  Makes 9- 2 1/2 inch biscuits. Biscuit yield will depend on size of cutter.