Just made up more biscuits and gravy this morning. Biscuits took less time to make than the gravy. Here is the recipe I used and they came out nice and fluffy and not dense, but filling. Two biscuit max sort of thing.
2 cups AP flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 stick unsalted butter, melted
1 cup buttermilk, cold (I just used milk this morning but it doesn't have acid to react with the baking soda, which makes a little more "dense" biscuit)
Preheat oven to 475* with baking rack in the middle of the oven.
Mix all of the dry ingredients together, melt butter and place in a seperate bowl with the buttermilk and stir until the butter starts to clump. Add to the dry ingredients and mix until just together and no more dry remains. Place onto a lined baking sheet using a super heaping tablespoon about 2" apart and bake at 475* for 12-13 minutes until brown on top. Cool on a rack and serve. This makes about 8-10 biscuits.
They taste like butter and are great. If I don't have the ingredients for this then bisquick and milk becomes my biscuits.
Gravy couldn't be easier if you already have milk, flour and sausage. The powdered mix has so many crazy things in them to help preserve them and give shelf life that I like to know that my gravy has only six things in it. Black pepper, red pepper, flour, sausage, milk and salt. Seventh is butter cause it tastes good!