Easy 4 Ingredient Homemade Biscuits Recipe - 7 UP Biscuits (2024)

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What are the 4 steps of the biscuit method? ›

Just as important as the fat is the liquid used to make your biscuits. Our Buttermilk Biscuit recipe offers the choice of using milk or buttermilk. Buttermilk is known for making biscuits tender and adding a zippy tang, so we used that for this test.

You can substitute any kind of lemon-lime soda in place of the 7-Up like Sprite, but I've also seen recipes that use Squirt, which is a carbonated grapefruit soda! I've actually used ginger ale to make these biscuits, too, and they turned out great. Just don't skip the soda.

Just add lemon and lime juice to a syrup solution, along with a little Kool-Aid lemonade drink mix for that special tang thanks to included citric acid, and you're almost there. When the syrup has cooled, mix it into some cold soda water in a 1 to 4 ratio. That's it. You've just made this clone of 7-UP yours.

The basic formula is as follows: 2 cups AP flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 6 tablespoons butter, 1/2 cup milk—and the add-in(s) of your choice. I'm giving you two savory options. The red is a sun-dried tomato and cheddar biscuit with paprika and a touch of cayenne.

The secret to the best biscuits is using very cold butter and baking powder. We've made a lot of biscuits, but this easy biscuits recipe is the one we turn to the most (they are so fluffy!). See our easy drop biscuits and cheese drop biscuits for even easier biscuits.

Buttermilk adds a nice tang to the biscuit flavor and helps them rise better.

Crisco may be beneficial for other baking applications, but for biscuit making, butter is the ultimate champion!

You could leave baking soda out of your recipe, but remember, the end product won't be the same. Your cookies will probably be flat and your pancakes won't be light and fluffy. They'll still taste good, but you'll notice textural changes.

What makes biscuits not fluffy? ›

Overworking the dough will not only create a tough biscuit instead of a tender biscuit, but can also result in a flatter biscuit. The more you play with the dough, the warmer the dough becomes. If the fat becomes too warm it will melt into the flour and they won't rise as tall.

Baking powder is made of baking soda plus cream of tartar and cornstarch. Baking powder can be substituted for baking soda by tripling the amount of baking powder. Baking soda can be substituted for baking powder by dividing the amount of baking powder needed by 4 and adding twice that amount of cream of tartar.

Lithium citrate was removed from 7UP in 1948 when the government banned its use in soft drinks. Other problematic ingredients included calcium disodium EDTA which was removed in 2006, and at that time potassium citrate replaced sodium citrate to lower the sodium content.

The most logical explanation is that the "7" in the name refers to the drink's seven ingredients: carbonated water, sugar, citrus oils, citric acid, sodium citrate and lithium citrate. The “Up,” Fels posited, references the lithium lift.

There's a clear difference between 7up and Sprite. 7up has a much brighter and fresher taste. I could even say it's more crisp. It's a bit harder to tell the difference between co*ke and Pepsi but there's most certainly a difference.

Mixing. The multi-stage mixing method is preferred for its ability to produce consistent doughs which are not fully developed. Blending all dry ingredients to rub or cut the shortening into the flour until fat is fully distributed and pea-sized lumps are visible.