Moms Gravy..How to?

[walkeraviator]

When I was in college down in Florida I had a roommate who was a huge deer/bird hunter from PA... i told him i liked to eat squirrel and he almost puked on the spot... he calls em tree rats...

[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]

Interesting that you bring up SOS. Before I retired, I spent 5 years in Eastern PA. You can't buy Biscuits/gravy ANYWHERE, thus I learned to substitute SOS. Hey, wasn't that bad, considering the local alternatives such as "scrapple" .

What is SOS and 'scrapple?" I take it that's some type of military terms for what soldiers used to call Chow Hall Slop but I have no idea what it consists of. I had my first encounter with MREs two years ago. The Air National Guard supplies them to families in South Alabama so the people will have food during hurricanes. It will keep a person from starving to death but it falls short in the tasty category.

Another thing I wanted to ask, everyone mentioned all that good sausage gravy but nobody mentioned CHOCOLATE GRAVY. I learned about it on my first visit to Clay County, TN when a bowlful of it was passed to me at breakfast. The guests were opening up biscuits and covering them with it and eating like a pack of hungry hounds. The bowl was passed to me and I passed it on because I didn't know what it was. My husband didn't tell me, he just said, "you should try it; I think you will like it." He later told me that it was chocolate gravy and was very good if the cook knows what she is doing.

I'm a very good cook and can make a killer chocolate cake but I have no idea how to make chocolate gravy. Sweetie Pie is coming home Sunday afternoon, for a few days, and I wanted to make him some chocolate gravy for breakfast Monday morning. Does anyone have a good recipe they will share with me? Thanks

[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

[FlyLie]

What is SOS and 'scrapple?" I take it that's some type of military terms for what soldiers used to call Chow Hall Slop but I have no idea what it consists of. I had my first encounter with MREs two years ago. The Air National Guard supplies them to families in South Alabama so the people will have food during hurricanes. It will keep a person from starving to death but it falls short in the tasty category.

Another thing I wanted to ask, everyone mentioned all that good sausage gravy but nobody mentioned CHOCOLATE GRAVY. I learned about it on my first visit to Clay County, TN when a bowlful of it was passed to me at breakfast. The guests were opening up biscuits and covering them with it and eating like a pack of hungry hounds. The bowl was passed to me and I passed it on because I didn't know what it was. My husband didn't tell me, he just said, "you should try it; I think you will like it." He later told me that it was chocolate gravy and was very good if the cook knows what she is doing.

I'm a very good cook and can make a killer chocolate cake but I have no idea how to make chocolate gravy. Sweetie Pie is coming home Sunday afternoon, for a few days, and I wanted to make him some chocolate gravy for breakfast Monday morning. Does anyone have a good recipe they will share with me? Thanks

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Just Google "Chocolate Gravy" and you will find lots of recipes. They are pretty basic, quick and easy to prepare. One the great memories of my KY childhood. Oh, and there is no grease in CG, only a little butter. As for the SOS, I'll leave the details to KYGORSKI, as he has some first hand knowledge of the subject. But I'll say that some folks know it as "creamed beef or chipped beef on toast". Let you figure out the SOS phrase, but it does have a military heritage. Something about a "shingle".

And then there is Scrapple. Hard to describe the breakfast meat other than to say, start with a "pig", and then after all the more desirable cuts of meat have been carved away, grind up what's left, including the squeal, and form into a loaf form, adding a lot of spices. Seems to be in the same family as "souse" (SP?) Slice the loaf and pan fry. Some people even put maple syrup on it.

[kygorski]

My last wife could make any gravy in the world, but couldn.t make a biscuit to save her soul. She kept trying, and finally I told her, I DONT LIKE BISCUITS! I.m a sour bread toast guy, I,ve ate a lot of what some folks consider great biscuits, but the only time I will willingly order them is at BOB Evans, or with KFC. I guess my nortern up bringing wont go away. We even had a hard time finding rye bread, so didn't bother looking for corned beef or pastrami.But when we went back home, it was rubens, gyros,and real chilli dogs we looked forward to.