Making Biscuits and Gravy With Bacon Grease
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Post By MaxBright (Guest Post)
RE: Making Biscuits and Gravy With Bacon Grease
Put a spoonful of bacon grease on skillet. Let it melt, then add flour and make a paste. Then add a little milk at a time, and stir until you have the amount of gravy you want. Add salt and pepper to your taste.
Post By lesley (Guest Post)
steps in making biscuits
add all the dry ingredients together in a bowl
add all the wet ingredients together in a bowl
make a well in between dry ingredients and then put the wet ingredients in the well in the dry ingredients. Mix together. Roll out and cut.
Then put in a pan that you can put in a oven then bake.
Post By rehan (Guest Post)
RE: Making Biscuits and Gravy With Bacon Grease
You can make gravy from sausage OR BACON the same way. The way I do mine is I use 2 T grease from either one, 2 T flour. Add the flour to the grease & let it get bubbly for about a minute. Don't let it burn or get to brown, just light brown. Then I slowly add 2 cups of milk while stirring. Bring this mixture to a gentle boil until thickened. Add salt & pepper to taste. The final touch is to add some crumbled up sausage or bacon at the very end. hope this helps!
Post by dule3296
RE: Making Biscuits and Gravy With Bacon Grease
Luvyabe is right - you have to cook your roux (the flour and bacon grease mixture) for awhile to cook off the flour taste before adding any liquids. Just keep stirring it and don't leave it at all or it will burn!
Post by mef1957
RE: Making Biscuits and Gravy With Bacon Grease
A kindred spirit! I love bacon gravy, it's what Mom used to make. I prefer it made with half water and half milk, and not too thick. She's right you need to let it boil down to get rid of the floury taste. I even use skim milk, that's all I buy.
I also don't measure, but use about two rounded tablespoons of grease and flour for two cups of liquid.
I keep the bacon grease in the frig and make it for breakfast, even for dinner sometimes with scrambled eggs and Bisquick biscuits.
Post By Estella (Guest Post)
RE: Making Biscuits and Gravy With Bacon Grease
I taught my son to make "bacon grease" gravy years ago and now he tells me his friends love to come to his house for biscuits and gravy. Most of us don't measure and you won't either once you get it down. I had to make myself measure in order to tell him how much of "everything" to use. Just start with a small batch until you get comfortable. Use 2 rounded Tablespoons of bacon grease and start melting it in the frying pan....medium heat. Then add 2 rounded Tablespoons of all purpose flour and start stirring and you'll have a sort of paste. Add some salt and pepper at this point (not too much because you can always add more when serving). If you like your gravy brown, then allow the flour to get brown before adding the 2 cups of milk (just brown, not burnt). If you like the lighter gravy, then just allow it to get a bit of a beige color. Now, start adding 2 cups of milk and stir the gravy until it starts to bubble....keep stirring. This should thicken up nicely....if it's too thick, just add a tiny bit of milk at a time...but don't get it too thin. If you'll notice, everything is in sort of equal parts....1T of each bacon grease and flour to 1 cup of milk...so you can increase your amounts accordingly if 2 cups is not enough. God bless you...hope this helps. Your gravy tasted floury because you didn't allow it to cook long enough :):) We all did that when we were learning!!!
Post by Luvyabye
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