Moms Gravy..How to?

[elnutsmalljaws]

No DECENT Biscuit and Gravy meal would be complete without some room on the plate for crispy fried taters and a big old slab of fresh red ripe tomato. Pretty simple put the biscuits, taters and maters on the plate and start slathering on the gravy over top of all 3.

Here is my Gravy recipe that a few on this site have eaten and swear by:

Tennessee Pride sausage crumbled up in the pan and break it up even more as it cooks. Add a little vegetable oil as the sausage cooks to equal about a 3 oz total of oil. As the sausage is browned then take it out of the pan, squeezing out the excess sausage grease back into the skillet. Put sausage in a bowl and sit aside. Now mix in self rising flour to the drippings until you get something like a wet pancake batter. Add the flour in slowly and you won't drop the heat from your skillet plus the lumps will almost be non existent and no need for a wisk. when the desired flour is in the mixture then cook it over medium heat STIRING CONSTANTLY. The gravy base will brown up to a color of peanut butter and will start sticking to the bottom of the pan. There will be a quick color change and smell change in the base that you have to be ready to see. THe seconde this happens and the gravy base darkens up and gets this nutty smell then it is time to add back in the sausage for just a second and add in the 2% milk. Stir slowly making sure you scrape the bottom of the pan and what few lumps you have will go away on their own as the milk warms up. Add FRESH CRACKED BLACK PEPPER and FRESH CRACKED SEA SALT to the mixture to taste. Let it simmer and bubbly slightly to make sure all the flour tasted is cooked out then dish out the Gravy over Biscuits, taters, maters, light bread, toast, fried bologna, squirrel, rabbit, country ham, sausage, bacon, eggs, or any other breakfast treat. Heck take off the pair of socks that you have been wearing for the entire 5 day fishing trip and cover them in the gravy and even they will be very tasty.

[elnutsmalljaws]

I had a woman come in one day to the office several years ago and she brought in homeade biscuits and gravy for all of us. She used BACON GREASE, ALL BACON GREASE, COMPLETELY USED A FULL PAN OF BACON GREASE to make the gravy. She had to use about a full pound of flour to soak up all the bacon grease then I don't know how much milk (it was not enough) because we needed knives to cut the gravy. Bacon comes from a Pig, Sausage comes from a Pig, both eaten for breakfast BUT BACON was not made for GRAVY. Worst tasting gravy EVER, it sat around the office all day and became this 5 pound rock hard frisbee of food.

[Chubminnow]

Bacon grease works just fine Elwood...as long as you use the right amount. It don't take much.

[bassin_bug]

Bacon grease works just fine Elwood...as long as you use the right amount. It don't take much.

I agree with you Chubminnow. Also country ham grease makes very good gravy. The lady Elwood was talking about must not have had much confidence in her cooking ability. It sounds like she used more grease instead of more milk to try and get the right consistency. I have seen some women serve gravy that had the consistency of peanut butter. lol