These biscuits turned me into a bread girl.
I am so not a bread girl. Normally.
And before you go lambasting me about how lucky I am not to be a bread girl, how I am truly blessed to easily be able to pass up almost any and all bread baskets in my midst, please remember that I more than make up for my lack of bread with dessert. Like… everyone’s dessert. Like more dessert than anyone on Earth should physically consume. I mean, I can clean dessert plates like nobody’s business. No matter how full I am, there is always room for dessert.
So cliche. So very true.
I’m not quite sure if I was simply starving, brain dead from blasting my Jersey Boys soundtrack on high for the 56 millionth time (no exaggeration) or that these are as seriously delicious as I’m about to exclaim, but they were the best freaking biscuits I’ve ever had. Okay, okay – maybe not quite as good as those biscuits from McDonalds AFTER a disgraceful night of drinking, but otherwise, they are 100 times better than any other biscuits I’ve ever had. It’s not like I live in the South though and have had my share of fabulous biscuits. So take that as you will. AND! I tried super hard in 2012 to not use the words “best ever” for well, anything that I made, because is there really a best ever of anything? Not for me. Always looking for the next “best ever.” Always.
Clearly 2013 is not off to a very good start with that. 20 days in and I’ve set myself up for failure.
Oh, and the butter. THE BUTTER! It’s so weird but so great. Depending on how much heat you like, it can get even spicier. The meyer lemons make it a little tart and a little sweet, and unlike that crazy weird pizza I made two weeks ago, you CAN use regular old lemons here. Thank goodness, right? Right.
Monday just got so much easier.
My next step is to make some sort of boozy pot pie and top it off with these biscuits. Can’t you just taste it? Something with red wine and short ribs or… something. Well, that might be my third step. My actual next step is walking to the fridge to finish the leftover Chinese food from last night.
My Monday already needs an intervention.
Beer Biscuits with Sriracha Meyer Lemon Butter
Yield: 12 biscuits
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) cold butter, cut into tiny pieces
1 1/4 cups beer
sriracha meyer lemon butter
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, softened
the zest of 1 meyer lemon
1/4-1/2 teaspoon sriracha
pinch of salt
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and soda, and whisk until combined. Using a fork, pastry blender or your hands, add butter pieces to the flour and mix until coarse little crumbles remain. Make a well in the center and pour in beer, stirring with a large spoon until just combined, not overmixing. Use your hands if needed to bring the dough together – I did.
Pat dough into a circle that is about 1 1/2 inches thick. This will make TALL biscuits! Using a biscuit/cookie cutter, cut the dough into rounds and place on a nonstick baking sheet. You may need to bring the dough together and flatten it more to get the last few biscuits. Additionally, you could also just drop large spoonfuls of batter on the baking sheet and form them that way. Baker for 10-12 minutes, or until golden on top. Serve hot with sriracha meyer lemon butter!
sriracha meyer lemon butter
Combine all ingredients together in a large bowl and mix well until combined.
[lightly adapted from these blue cheese biscuits, originally from bon appetit]
And that butter is incredible on… yes, everything.
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ok, these are just gorgeous. i’m not a bread girl either. i like it, but yeah… design reigns. or unless the bread is in the form of dessert like a sweet roll. :) the spicy meyer lemon butter itself sounds amazing and i feel i’d love any bread soaked in it. I need to try making my own biscuits sometime. :)
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oh these do look incredible!
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This is something my fiance will LOVE. He loves beer, siracha and lemon. Come on: I gotta try these now! :) Thanks for sharing!
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I had a desire to make biscuits this weekend, b/c I had buttermilk on hand for another recipe and said well biscuits would be perfect. But then ended up making bread with it rather than biscuits but now seeing yours…I need a biscuit fix. Yours are so tall, flaky, and perfect!
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Dam Girl, you come up with the best combos! Lemon and Rooster Sauce!! Crazy!! I LOVE it!!!!!1 These biscuits look delish!
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I’m thankful I can pass on the bread basket, I need to not want to eat something!
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Ok, I am super intrigued by this butter. Lemons and sriracha? Never would I think to put those two together, but I’m totally going to try now. I’ve never really been one to make biscuits (as you said, I’m not a bread kinda girl) but yours look beautiful!
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I am such a bread girl!! I’ve never had biscuits made with beer. They sound so delicious!
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Ohhh no…you lost me a little at sriracha, but I’m thinking about a basil butter that probably wouldn’t be too bad :)
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Cmon no bread??? Crusty french bread warm from the oven with some fresh cold butter melting ?? I’ll forgive you ,because even though ,sadly you are not bread girl, you are …….Dessert girl ! I’m off to make a triple chocolate cake.
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Amy W — January 21st, 2013 @ 9:00 am
All I had to read was “crusty french bread warm…” and the rest of your statement was lost. Now I want french bread. Thanks :)
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As a bread girl myself, I have to say that these biscuits look amazing!
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It is probably a bad thing that I am a bread girl and a dessert girl. . . .
Also, beer + sirracha are two of my favorite things. Love that they get to come together here!
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All I can say is welcome. I have been a bread girl all my life and these will definitely be made in my kitchen. And Meyer lemons with sriracha!? You’ve intrigued me again Jessica!!!
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Jessica, you are not along in finishing everyone else’s desserts. LIke this weekend, I finished my best friend’s birthday cupcakes. Note the plural. And they were for her BIRTHDAY.
Biscuits look outstanding and love the lemon addition in the butter. Bring on the carbs!
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oh..must try these..Ive never really like biscuits, to dry, but Im trusting you!
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That BUTTER OMG. I am weirdly obsessed with making biscuits and am loving the sound of these. Yours are so gorgeously tall!
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Related to this post on SO many levels. Dessert? I eat about 100x more than any human. I can’t be stopped. Jersey Boys? Obsessed. Biscuits? Craved one last night (unusual for me) and now need to try these. Happy Monday!
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These are making my mouth water! I never turn down some bread…especially biscuits!
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Oh man!!! Those look incredible. What kind of beer did you use in the biscuits?
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I’ve always been a bread girl. It’s not healthy. Totally in love with this recipe. Will be making this week for sure!
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Sriracha meyer lemon butter! Oh my goodness!
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I just bought sriracha for the first time ever (crazy, I know). I’m wondering if it needs to be refrigerated after opening? Thanks for giving me an excuse to use it!
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Biscuits are so cozy.. Love these!
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It’s so crazy it just might work…I don’t know how you came up with this, but I’m glad you did!
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How on earth do you come up with your crazy ideas??? I’d love to be as creative as you in the kitchen!
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What a beautiful looking biscuit in the fourth picture! It looks tall and fluffy and perfect.
I have attempted biscuits three times in the last 6 months and have failed every time. I can’t seem to master the “gentle care” biscuit dough requires.
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i’ve made beer bread before but not beer biscuits! definitely going to give these a shot.
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I love bread. And I love that you are a bread girl now.
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Juuuust so you know, there’s a separate space in the stomach that just holds dessert. There is always room for dessert. And for these biscuits. Yum.
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Meyer Lemon butter? Sounds interesting! Definitely on my to do list! :)
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Spicy and meyer lemon all in one?? Yes please, had me several of those biscuits as a vehicle.
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These look amazing. Great photography. I will try them at home soon. Please check out the food blog I have just started http://www.surreyKitchen.wordpress.com. Thanks!
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Are these whole wheat?? They look whole wheat. I make biscuits every Sunday (with a different recipe evvvvery week), and last night I made your fontina/everything biscuits. Needless to say, best yet!
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Jessica — January 21st, 2013 @ 1:18 pm
nope, I used AP flour but they do look whole wheat – I think it was a mixture of the lighting and maybe what the beer does to the texture? either way you can definitely use whole wheat pastry flour here – I use that all the time with this biscuit recipe!
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SO FLUFFY!!! I’m very intrigued by the butter!
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I never thought of myself as a bread girl until I had to go gluten-free. I’ve easily replaced my favorite deserts but what I wouldn’t do to enjoy that bread basket or a crispy panini when we go out to eat! That being said, these do look tasty and those McDonald’s biscuits.. there is something so tempting about them!
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I love Beer Bread and I love Lemon. So obviously, these are happening at my house asap.
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These sound unreal! Love that butter on top too. Oh my!
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These look delicious! What kind of beer do you recommend using?
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Awesomness!
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I’m very intrigued by this…especially the butter! Must try!
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Wow! I am totally obsessed with sriracha but would have never thought to combine it with lemon and make into a butter!? Genius. I’ve been making honey beer bread recently, can’t wait to give this a try!
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Sriracha meyer lemon butter?? THIS SOUNDS AMAZING. I must make some immediately and throw it over a piece of broiled fish or something simliar.
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These look insanely delicious!!
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I would still like to lambast you for not being a bread girl. I just cannot understand it. Bread calls to me.
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That butter and i are already best friends. And I haven’t even made it yet.
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Wow! everything about these biscuits sounds amazing! Must Make Soon!!!
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So yummy!
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This is going on the food buck list… I really need to rally and make my own biscuits, like, real soon.
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This sounds so much more appealing than the pillsbury cans sitting in my fridge right now. Looks like I know what I’ll be doing tonight while catching up on Revenge :)
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I love this so much. I feel a bit like The Well Has Run Dry with creativity and this cookbook I’m writing. I need to call you and pick your brain, you always have the most amazingly creative ideas!
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