Expert: Heinz Henze - 11/19/2008

Question
How big of a single biscut can one make with a 25 pound sack of flour
please. Thank you for an answer.

Answer
Hi Dennis,

So ya like biscuits I take it. The answer to your question depends on the recipe you use for biscuits and the amount of other ingredients that you use in that recipe.  

I found a basic buttermilk biscuit recipe and figured out that using 25 lbs. of flour it would make about a 37 lb. biscuit.  Now baking a biscuit that big would be difficult.  First off it wouldn't fit in a home size oven.  You roll biscuit dough out to 1/2-1 inch thickness and that would make the biscuit too big around to fit in the oven.  If you made the diameter small enough to fit in the oven it would be so thick that the outside would burn before the inside ever got done.

Hope this helped you out a little...if you decide to try it out let me know how it goes.

Have a great day,

Heinz