I've been making my grandma's biscuit recipe wrong for 15 years

Diana Black · 2026-03-22T06:05:04.718627+00:00

I was visiting my cousin in Atlanta last month and watched her make them, and she used cold buttermilk straight from the fridge. I'd been using room temperature for a decade and a half, and my biscuits were always flat. That one thing changed everything. Has anyone else had a family recipe secret revealed like that?

milessmith6mo ago

Was the secret just that I can't follow basic directions?

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terryk285mo ago

Honestly, how much difference can cold buttermilk really make? Carter.gavin might be onto something with the secret test idea. Seems like a lot of fuss over a small detail.

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carter.gavin6mo ago

Maybe the family secret was always a test to see who'd figure it out.

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