{"id":1494,"date":"2025-11-24T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:14:45","slug":"ben-johnsons-buttermilk-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/ben-johnsons-buttermilk-biscuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Johnson’s Buttermilk Biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ben Johnson’s Buttermilk Biscuits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The recipe for actor Ben Johnson’s famous buttermilk biscuits, as shared by the Ben Johnson Cowboy Museum, calls for all-purpose flour, baking powder, sugar, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, and shortening. A key step is to melt the shortening in the biscuit pan before baking, turning the cut biscuits in the melted shortening to coat them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Servings: 16-20 Biscuits<\/span><\/p>\n

INGREDIENTS<\/span><\/p>\n

2 cups all-purpose flour<\/span>
\n2 heaping teaspoons baking powder<\/span>
\n1 tablespoon sugar<\/span>
\n1\/4 teaspoon baking soda<\/span>
\n1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/span>
\n1 cup buttermilk<\/span>
\n1\/4 cup shortening, melted in a biscuit<\/span>
\npan<\/span><\/p>\n

STEPS<\/span><\/p>\n

1) Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Mix together all dry ingredients.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) Add buttermilk and blend in well. Roll out on a floured board.<\/span><\/p>\n

3) Cut with a biscuit cutter, then turn in melted shortening in a pan.<\/span><\/p>\n

4) Bake until lightly browned.<\/span><\/p>\n

5) Makes about 16 to 20 biscuits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The recipe for actor Ben Johnson’s famous buttermilk biscuits, as shared by the Ben Johnson Cowboy Museum, calls for all-purpose flour, baking powder, sugar, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, and shortening. A key step is to melt the shortening in the biscuit pan before baking, turning the cut biscuits in the melted shortening to coat them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[28,29],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bread-pastries","category-breakfast-lunch","tag-breads-pastries","tag-breakfast-brunch-lunch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}