Biscuits and gravy
 

(Scuse me for being dim, but) I keep seeing this mentioned on breakfast menus. What is it? In England, biscuits and gravy, would be like a cookie with gravy!

Biscuits here are bread buns made with lard, bacon grease, white flour, and salt. They are sometimes served with a pat of butter.

The gravy would be made from sausage or sausage gravy.

photo:

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/ch...6_11_gravy.jpg

It is a wonderful thing! Think of it as a roll with gravy.

You definately have to try it! It's wonderfully bad for you - but really, really good!

This is a southern specialty you won;t see in most parts of the country.

What you in the UK call a biscuit in the US is called a cookie.

Biscuits are more similar to what I believe you call bread rolls.

Not to be confused with what we call English muffins - and in the UK are called I think scones - and my Irish grandmother called tea cakes.

GoTravel - You don't cook much or make biscuits very often do you. I don't think you will find bacon grease and lard used often now. I like to substitute low fat buttermilk for regular milk.

http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/biscuits.html

Thats a yummmee picture of biscuits and gravy. :)

The biscuits I've had have a sort of scone-like harshness to their taste, only without the sweetness or flakiness. They're a scone-like shape, too

The gravy's sometimes more like a pasta sauce than what you'd make from a Bisto packet. It's usually rather chunky, with small bits of sausagemeat.

The whole effect's rather like pouring a tasty sauce over bread doorsteps.

A really really good biscuit will have a bacon flavor to it because it will be made with bacon grease rather than lard.

Thanks folks! The photo looks like scones, covered with mushroom soup! It's in the Cleveland area I've seen them on menus.

Wildblue, I think you are planning to spend some time in Colorado, right? If you get to Summit County, check out the Arapahoe Cafe in Dillon (right near the boat launch part) for breakfast. They have pretty good biscuits and gravy. I took a Brit there and he was hooked.

Our biscuits are not cookies.

Scones are sweeter than our biscuits.

The gravy may be just flour and milk (milk gravy) or with sausage.

Here's a recipe for biscuits -
(The website recipe adds 1/4 cup of sugar for the scone recipe)

http://www.whitelily.com/Recipes/Det...?recipeID=3461

starrsville - we do have savoury scones here (like cheese ones - yummy) And I do know that your cookies aren't biscuits! (We get cookies here too!)
Grassshopper - yes, a short time in Colorado - I'll have to check the map to see if Dillon is anywhere near where we'll be.
I have to say that they look gross and I think I'd prefer a nice poached egg! :) But I'll try them! Thanks!

Thanks for the recipe, starrsville - it's very similar to our scone recipes.

Well, NOW my stomach's doing flip-flops! "nice poached egg" YUCK!

But, if it's gross to you, don't eat it. That's my philosophy on poached eggs :-)

Here's the scone recipe - basically the biscuit recipe with sugar added

http://www.whitelily.com/Recipes/Det...?recipeID=3503

And, here's the milk gravy recipe -
"the drippings" = from frying the meat, bacon or sausage
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1626...254207,00.html

I don't think it is necessarily a southern US food....but maybe more rural in inclination. My family used to serve it alot especially on the farm. It was a good hot morning breakfast with that lard enhanced sausage gravy!

Although we did live in southern Iowa.... :-).

"I'll have to check the map to see if Dillon is anywhere near where we'll be."

Yes! :)

It may not be "exclusively" southern, but it's definitely much more commonly found in the South.

I have a hard time finding biscuits and gravy, and often just biscuits, anywhere outside the South. (Not to mention grits or sweet tea, of course.) It's like y'all have never heard of Waffle House or something. ;)