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Here's a recipe for buttermilk biscuits that includes a video showing the technique. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220943/chef-johns-buttermilk-biscuits/ h

Here's a recipe for buttermilk biscuits that includes a video showing the technique. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220943/chef-johns-buttermilk-biscuits/ https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220943/chef-johns-buttermi... It's fairly close to the old school southern recipe, although lard was traditionally used in addition to butter and many recipes added a teaspoon of sugar and a quarter teaspoon of baking soda. You can add a couple of teaspoons of bacon grease with your buttermilk to get closer to the traditional recipe.

beauzero 8y ago
The lard from traditional "lard" hogs that most of those old recipes were written towards is not the same chemical composition of lard rendered from today's meat hogs. Not a knock against your recommendation of bacon grease...lard hog lard was healthier and had a lower melting point.
- busterarm 8y ago
  US Wellness Meats' lard is probably closer to what you'd be looking for then.
- jriot 8y ago
  Lard is rendered from the leaf fat, near the kidney of the pig. Takes about 4 hours and is well worth it! We have a freezer full of leaf fat.