Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits

[LegalAmerican]

I would post one for you, but you have me on ignore so would never see it.  Sausage gravy and biscuits has been our traditional Christmas morning breakfast for longer than I've been alive.

I read this post.  BTW. Never over mix, handle biscuit dough, too much Make's it tough.  Light touch.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ! 

[RoosGirl]

I read this post.  BTW. Never over mix, handle biscuit dough, too much Make's it tough.  Light touch.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ! 

Then would you like to discuss sausage gravy?

[LegalAmerican]

  Hard Tac....made with flour, water, salt.  They don't recommend any oil, butter, lard, as it won't last as long. Tend to go rancid.

This is survival food.  Baked twice, holes poked in it like a cracker.  Can be used as as door stop!  Hard as a brick. lol

[LegalAmerican]

Then would you like to discuss sausage gravy?

Sure.   

[corbe]

ORANGE GRAVY   

1/4 c. butter
1/4 c. all-purpose flour
2 c. milk
1/2 c. orange juice
1/2 tsp. paprika
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
2/3 c. raisins


Melt butter in a heavy saucepan over low heat; add flour, stirring until smooth. Cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Gradually add milk and orange juice; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat, and stir in remaining ingredients. Yield: about 3 cups.

    I don't hate you half as much as think I do @LegalAmerican
    Merry Christmas, Sweetheart

 


PS: what do you do with @Emjay?

[Sanguine]

    I don't hate you half as much as think I do @LegalAmerican
    Merry Christmas, Sweetheart

 


PS: what do you do with @Emjay?

What do you put that on @corbe?

I expect that @Emjay is too busy enjoying Christmas to have time for us.  Where are you, Emjay?

[corbe]

What do you put that on @corbe?

I expect that @Emjay is too busy enjoying Christmas to have time for us.  Where are you, Emjay?

   Mexicans of course @Sanguine

   I think @Emjay is the Continental USA for the Holidays and just too ashamed to admit it.

   

[Sanguine]

   Mexicans of course @Sanguine

   I think @Emjay is the Continental USA for the Holidays and just too ashamed to admit it.

 

Like sunscreen? 

[RoosGirl]

Sure.   

Oh, where to start.... with the sausage.
We always used Tennessee Pride Mild because we liked that flavor, but use whatever bulk breakfast sausage you like.  This year I bought ground pork and am seasoning it with AC Legg #10.  I use 1 lb of sausage to 2 quarts of milk.

First, brown the sausage well.  You want to keep the fat for making the gravy.  I brown the sausage in the big pot that I'm going to make the gravy in and then pull out the cooked sausage and hold it in a bowl until I'm ready to put it in the gravy.

So, let's say we've browned 1 lb of sausage and are going to use 2 quarts of milk to make gravy.  You want 8 Tbsp of pork fat, if you don't have enough pork fat add enough butter to make up the difference.

Time to make the roux.  Over medium heat, heat your 8 Tbsps fat.  Add 10 Tbsp of all-purpose flour and whisk continuously until smooth.  Add milk a little at a time, whisking continuously.  Once the first bit of milk you add has been whisked in and everything is smooth add more milk and repeat until all the milk is added and it's smooth.  Keep whisking and bring to a boil and allow to boil at least 1 minute to make sure the flour is cooked.  This is the time to taste and adjust the salt and pepper to your liking. 

Turn the heat off and stir the browned sausage in and it's done.

[Emjay]

What do you put that on @corbe?

I expect that @Emjay is too busy enjoying Christmas to have time for us.  Where are you, Emjay?

I'm not enjoying Christmas @Sanguine because I suffered a bad leg injury and am forbidden to sit at the computer.  I'm supposed to sit in a recliner with my leg elevated or lie in bed with my leg elevated.

Y'all will have to solve the worlds' problems without me for a while.

[Sanguine]

I'm not enjoying Christmas @Sanguine because I suffered a bad leg injury and am forbidden to sit at the computer.  I'm supposed to sit in a recliner with my leg elevated or lie in bed with my leg elevated.

Y'all will have to solve the worlds' problems without me for a while.

I'm so sorry to hear that!  I hope you have a great Christmas from your recliner.   Take it easy and have some eggnog.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

I didn't even know they come frozen!
That's right about the refrigerator kind... I can't stand toob dough - Ain't no way to keep it. Still using it though... Till I get a good pizza dough worked out, and I can make flaky biscuits... and croissants... What is life without pigs in a blanket?

Have you tried freezing the tube?

[corbe]

   Your absence certainly had me baffled @Emjay
   My thoughts and prayers for a rapid recovery fly across the ocean to you.

 

[LegalAmerican]

Oh, where to start.... with the sausage.
We always used Tennessee Pride Mild because we liked that flavor, but use whatever bulk breakfast sausage you like.  This year I bought ground pork and am seasoning it with AC Legg #10.  I use 1 lb of sausage to 2 quarts of milk.

First, brown the sausage well.  You want to keep the fat for making the gravy.  I brown the sausage in the big pot that I'm going to make the gravy in and then pull out the cooked sausage and hold it in a bowl until I'm ready to put it in the gravy.

So, let's say we've browned 1 lb of sausage and are going to use 2 quarts of milk to make gravy.  You want 8 Tbsp of pork fat, if you don't have enough pork fat add enough butter to make up the difference.


Time to make the roux.  Over medium heat, heat your 8 Tbsps fat.  Add 10 Tbsp of all-purpose flour and whisk continuously until smooth.  Add milk a little at a time, whisking continuously.  Once the first bit of milk you add has been whisked in and everything is smooth add more milk and repeat until all the milk is added and it's smooth.  Keep whisking and bring to a boil and allow to boil at least 1 minute to make sure the flour is cooked.  This is the time to taste and adjust the salt and pepper to your liking. 

Turn the heat off and stir the browned sausage in and it's done.

Ok, got it. Thanks.  This, you pour over Biscuit?  Mom liked this in her later years.  She has since, passed.  Not born in America.

[goodwithagun]

I’m going to hijack this thread in the name of southern hospitality: Divinity is on the to do list tomorrow. We make it every year and it’s always a big hit, both for those who’ve had it before and those who’ve never heard of it until tasting.

Modified to add: When I add the pecans I pronounce it PUH-kahns. Sue me, bitches.

[RoosGirl]

Ok, got it. Thanks.  This, you pour over Biscuit?  Mom liked this in her later years.  She has since, passed.  Not born in America.

Yep, ladled over a biscuit.

[RoosGirl]

I’m going to hijack this thread in the name of southern hospitality: Divinity is on the to do list tomorrow. We make it every year and it’s always a big hit, both for those who’ve had it before and those who’ve never heard of it until tasting.

Modified to add: When I add the pecans I pronounce it PUH-kahns. Sue me, bitches.

Divinity is a little too candy-like for my taste.  We'll be making chocolate chip cookies tomorrow with my son so we have something to leave out for Santa.

PS  It's PICK-ann

[goodwithagun]

Divinity is a little too candy-like for my taste.  We'll be making chocolate chip cookies tomorrow with my son so we have something to leave out for Santa.

PS  It's PICK-ann

Not pick-AY-uhn?

[corbe]

   I live 12 miles from the largest pe - Kanh in the World I've even urinated on it, you folks don't have a clue.

[RoosGirl]

Not pick-AY-uhn?

Granddaddy was from as far south and east in Georgia as you can go without being in Florida or the Atlantic.  They said PICK-ann and I copy him.  My mom and husband say puh-KAHN

[240B]

   I live 12 miles from the largest pe - Kanh in the World I've even urinated on it

Doesn't that make it your property now? I mean, you marked it so, now it is yours. (if you can defend it from intruders)

[ConstitutionRose]

Oh, where to start.... with the sausage.
We always used Tennessee Pride Mild because we liked that flavor, but use whatever bulk breakfast sausage you like.  This year I bought ground pork and am seasoning it with AC Legg #10.  I use 1 lb of sausage to 2 quarts of milk.

First, brown the sausage well.  You want to keep the fat for making the gravy.  I brown the sausage in the big pot that I'm going to make the gravy in and then pull out the cooked sausage and hold it in a bowl until I'm ready to put it in the gravy.

So, let's say we've browned 1 lb of sausage and are going to use 2 quarts of milk to make gravy.  You want 8 Tbsp of pork fat, if you don't have enough pork fat add enough butter to make up the difference.

Time to make the roux.  Over medium heat, heat your 8 Tbsps fat.  Add 10 Tbsp of all-purpose flour and whisk continuously until smooth.  Add milk a little at a time, whisking continuously.  Once the first bit of milk you add has been whisked in and everything is smooth add more milk and repeat until all the milk is added and it's smooth.  Keep whisking and bring to a boil and allow to boil at least 1 minute to make sure the flour is cooked.  This is the time to taste and adjust the salt and pepper to your liking. 

Turn the heat off and stir the browned sausage in and it's done.

In TN sausage gravy is a sacred dish.  When hubby and I were dating we visited his mother and her new husband, born, bred and Tennesse country boy to the bone.  He mentioned he liked sausage gravy and I volunteered to make him some.  Hubby nearly had a stroke.  He knew I had been raised a vegetarian, he didn't know I had learned to make sausage gravy for my x.  He thought I was about to blow it. 

Won the heart of my son to be father-in-law that day.

[Emjay]

   Your absence certainly had me baffled @Emjay
   My thoughts and prayers for a rapid recovery fly across the ocean to you.

 

Thanks @corbe   I can't sit and chat but I check my e-mails.  It's a real pain but my doctor keeps threatening me with amputation if I don't do everything he says so mostly I do.  Hope to be back in a couple of weeks.  Keep up the good fight.

[LegalAmerican]

    I don't hate you half as much as think I do @LegalAmerican
    Merry Christmas, Sweetheart

 


PS: what do you do with @Emjay?

What is this sweet gravy...for?   Ham?   

[LegalAmerican]

   I live 12 miles from the largest pe - Kanh in the World I've even urinated on it, you folks don't have a clue.

Why...why...would you do that?   Ugh.