- prep: 20 min
- cook: 45 min
- total: 1 hr 5 min
Summary
Cathead biscuits are a Southern staple whose name refers to their large size (about as big as a cat's head). The dough for this hand-rolled biscuit recipe is made by incorporating flour into the wet ingredients, instead of the reverse. The result is a fluffy (rather than flaky) biscuit, ready to be split and spread with flavorful honey butter.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup buttermilk powder
- 3 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- Pinch of sugar
- 6 tablespoons lard or bacon fat, cut into pieces and slightly softened
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces and slightly softened, plus more, melted, if desired
- 3 1/2–4 cups all-purpose flour, divided, plus more
- 1/2 cup flavorful honey (such as buckwheat)
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, slightly softened
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt or kosher salt
Instructions
Click Here For Step-By-Step Instructions
Tags
Nutrition
Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 12
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 338 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 15 g 23.61%
- Saturated Fat: 8 g 38.63%
- Trans Fat: 0 g %
- Cholesterol: 29 mg 9.6%
- Sodium: 823 mg 34.3%
- Calcium: 97 mg 9.66%
- Potassium: 91 mg 2.59%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 2 mg 12.98%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 43 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 2 g 7.85%
- Sugar: 1 g
- Protein: 6 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 1 g
- Vitamin A 5.19%
- Vitamin C 0.17%
- Vitamin D 1.66%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat3
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs0
- Exchange - Starch3
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat0
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
- MyPlate - Grain Total3 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total0 oz-eq