Biscuits with Sausage Gravy

[Marauderer]

The wife wanted this this morning. So I broke out my equipment and ingredients and went at it. Biscuits are really hard for some folks to make as is sausage gravy. They are easy to make once you understand the technique.

First the Biscuits Recipe;

This is basically an Alton Brown recipe and you can find it and videos at the FoodNetwork.com

I made a couple of small variations to it

Ingredients
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons butter
1 cup buttermilk, chilled

​I doubled this recipe today so we would have some left over.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.


Cut your cold chilled butter into small pats and add to the flour

Using a pastry blender cut the butter into small pea size morsels in the flour



Add your buttermilk and mix it into the flour mixture. No extra mixing as your biswcfuits will be tough.

Flour your working surface, bring out the dough and dust the top[ with flour so you can work it.




I will continue in the next post

[Marauderer]

Pat your dough out to about 3/4"-1" thick

Get your biscuit cutter and a small spatula and cut out all the biscuits









My inside oven thermostat is not doing well so I baked the biscuits in my Rec Tec set at 450*F


Next post will be about the sausage gravy.

[Marauderer]

Sausage gravy is very easy to make once you have seen it done and understand the ingredients.

Ingredients;

1 lb sausage roll
1/4 cp bacon drippings or oil
1/3 cp all purpose flour
3 cp milk
Salt and Pepper to taste.

I take about 40% of the sausage roll and cut patties this time and cooked them off for breakfast another day. I then cut the remainder of the roll lengthwise in half and then quarters and fry on a medium heat.



This black plastic tool is great for dicing up the cooked sausage.





Brown on one side then the other.

dice well or if you like big chunks do it your way.


Empty diced sausage into a bowl

place your pan back on the burner and add your bacon drippings. I was out of BD so I used oil. After the oil is heated add the 1/3 cp of AP Flour and whisk it into the oil.


immediately add about 3/4 cp of the milk and whiisk the oil/flour mixture into the milk. If the mixture starts to thicken add a bit more of the milk and possibly turn down the burner some. The objective is to get a lump free mixture then add some more milk. You should have used about 2 cp of the milk.





You have to boil the mixture for the flour to thicken, or kick over.

Will finish in the next post hopefully.

[Marauderer]

Now add the diced sausage back into the boiling gravy


Sir mixture well


I like pepper in mine.


Stir mixture well again


turn off burner, cover, and let sit for about 30 min. It will thicken quite a bit more.


Se how it thickened.


Turn on the burner and add the last cup of milk


That's it Folks. I usually make the sausage gravy first and while it is sitting for the 30 min I will make the biscuits and get them in the oven and then go back and finish the gravy and they are all done about the same time.

[gcdmd]

I've done SOS with corned beef and cured pork loin for church breakfasts, and both were big hits. Of course, Meathead has great articles and recipes on curing meat on the general AmazingRibs.com site.

George

[Huskee]

Oh. My. Word. Fantastic!! That is one heckuva writeup Barry, you deserve an award! I love good biscuits and gravy! I love a good sausage gravy on top of crispy fried diced potatoes with cheddar cheese and/or scrambled eggs. I always have used Campbell's it's mighty tasty but I am sure there is zero comparison to homemade. It's 1040 and I have not eaten breakfast, rumbly tumbly after reading this.

Well done my friend! The is what The Pit is about!

[smarkley]

Wonderful! One of my favorite breakfasts!

[David C]

Looks great, and the recipes gave me some ideas. Biscuits & Sausage Gravy is one of our daughter's and my favorite breakfasts to cook together. We order our flour from Pioneer in Texas. I make the sausage myself.

[Marauderer]

Looks great, and the recipes gave me some ideas. Biscuits & Sausage Gravy is one of our daughter's and my favorite breakfasts to cook together. We order our flour from Pioneer in Texas. I make the sausage myself.

I know what byou mean David. Sausage flavor is a very personal thing. I would like to make my own sausage and have tried in the past but, my choice of seasonings has been less than satisfactory. Maybe this year I will try again.

[HC in SC]

Looks great! Throw in a couple of runny eggs and you got a real triple play! Great write up - I make similar white gravy with the oil and crispings from frying beef cube steaks.

[HC in SC]

Just don't let that roux burn!!!

[Marauderer]

Just don't let that rue burn!!!

absolutely. I developed this back when we lived in Charleston, SC in the late 70's. That is when I started baking bread, rolls, etc.

[Dr ROK]

immediately add about 3/4 cp of the milk and whiisk the oil/flour mixture into the milk. If the mixture starts to thicken add a bit more of the milk and possibly turn down the burner some. The objective is to get a lump free mixture then add some more milk. You should have used about 2 cp of the milk.

Excellent post! Thanks for the picks. Don't you cook your rue a bit to get rid of the raw starch flavor of the flour?

[Marauderer]

Yes, that is why you have to boil it to get the flour to kick over and thicken.

[Dewesq55]

Barry, I cook a lot with roux (not rue). Might I suggest that you whisk the roux (flour and fat) over medium heat for a could of minutes until it is all smooth and smells a bit like pie crust before adding your milk, wishing constantly. This will make sure there are no lumps and cook the raw flour taste out.

Looks really good, by the way.

[HC in SC]

Correct - my bad! I believe rue means "street" .

I have corrected my post above.

[The Burn]

Outstanding post and damn that stuff looks good!

[Jon Solberg]

AWESOME JOB Barry. Maybe when I'm down there getting that Lang this spring you can hook a brother up?

Looks great, and the recipes gave me some ideas. Biscuits & Sausage Gravy is one of our daughter's and my favorite breakfasts to cook together. We order our flour from Pioneer in Texas. I make the sausage myself.

Looking forward to seeing this as well. Especially the sausage making part.