American South

Biscuits and gravy

Name: Biscuits and gravy
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups for biscuits plus 3 tbsp for gravy maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 1 tbsp baking powder; 1/4 tsp baking soda (bicarb soda, bicarbonate of soda); 1 tsp plus a pinch salt; 6 tbsp very cold butter; 3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp buttermilk; 250 g sausage meat squeezed from casings sausages (snags, bangers); 2 cups milk; 1 tsp coarsely ground black pepper

Flaky buttermilk biscuits drowned in peppery sausage gravy. A breakfast that means business.

50 minTime

21 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayButtermilk biscuits and sausage milk gravy, as served across the South.

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Biscuits and gravy.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)2 cups for biscuits plus 3 tbsp for gravy

Baking powder1 tbsp

Baking soda (bicarb soda, bicarbonate of soda)¼ tsp

Salt1 tsp plus a pinch

Butter6 tbsp, very cold

Buttermilk¾ cup plus 2 tbsp

Sausages (snags, bangers)250 g sausage meat, squeezed from casings

Milk2 cups

Black pepper1 tsp, coarsely ground

Method

6 steps

1Whisk 250 g flour, baking powder, soda and 1 tsp salt. Grate in cold butter and toss to coat.
2Stir in buttermilk until a shaggy dough forms. Pat out, fold in thirds twice, then pat to 2.5 cm thick and cut 8 rounds.
3Bake at 220 C for 14 to 16 minutes, close together on a tray.
4Brown sausage meat in a pan, breaking it up. Sprinkle in remaining 30 g flour and stir 1 minute.
5Pour in milk gradually, stirring, and simmer until thick. Season generously with pepper and a pinch of salt.
6Split warm biscuits and smother with gravy.

Serve it like this

Split two warm biscuits on a plate, ladle over plenty of gravy and finish with cracked pepper. Fried eggs alongside are welcome.

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