Biscuits and gravy is not only a beloved Arkansas Original, but a revered breakfast throughout the south. Whisk flour into the fat and cook over. The combination of the two creates a sublime mixture that can’t be duplicated with only one or the other. When done, remove sausage from pan and pour off all but 2 tablespoons of fat. Sawmill gravy is traditionally made with sausage, but my family likes bacon and sausage, so naturally we use drippings from both. That’s right, I buy canned biscuits for the convenience and because I can’t make them better than Hardees or Pillsbury – yet.
I buy everything at the grocery including canned biscuits. Sawmill Gravy recipe by Suzan McAllister, is from McAllister Cookbook, one of the cookbooks created at Famil圜. Whisk in milk gradually and cook, stirring constantly until thickend and bubbly (about 12 minutes). Whisk in flour and stir until smooth, about 1 minute. Melt butter in same skillet over low heat. Return to medium-high heat and stir occasionally while the gravy comes to a simmer and thickens. Remove pan from heat and whisk in milk a little at a time. Whisk flour into the fat and cook over low heat for 5 minutes. They traded for flour, salt and pepper in the small community a few miles away by wagon and she cooked breakfast over a wood fired cast iron stove. Cook sausage in a large skillet over medium heat, crumbling and cooking until no longer pink. Sawmill Gravy This is Something That my Bil Did For us Thanksgiving Morning. When done, remove sausage from pan and pour off all but 2 tablespoons of fat. Grandma made scratch biscuits and made the gravy with milk from their own cows. The great greats slaughtered their own hogs and made their own sausage. It gets the sawmill moniker because its something they used to serve at chow time in the. Here it takes it’s name from logging camps and sawmills where it was a breakfast staple and the name stuck. Sawmill gravy, also known as sausage gravy, is a southern staple. He settled in Kentucky, married a local girl and she made the gravy.Ĭuriously, in Arkansas it’s called sawmill gravy while in Kentucky it’s just gravy or milk gravy. Great, great grandpa emigrated from Germany, sailing 62 days on a tall ship from Liverpool to New Orleans. I can directly trace it back to the early 1800’s in my family.
Sawmill gravy and biscuits is a traditional breakfast here in Arkansas and my home state of Kentucky.