Breakfast Bacon Gravy

Bacon Gravy

One of my favorite gravies is served with biscuits for breakfast. A lot of people prefer sausage gravy, and that's very good, but my family always preferred bacon gravy. I think this is also called "Milk Gravy" by some. 

I will never forget the morning I learned to make Bacon Gravy. I was fourteen years old when I begged my Mama to teach me how to make homemade biscuits and gravy.

I'm just kidding. I'll never forget that morning because Mama nearly tore my butt up for being a lazy teenager who talked back to her. “How come Randy doesn't have to get off his butt and help, too?” I asked. “Because Randy is my favorite”, said Mama.

I'm just kidding again, but that's what I thought at the time, and nothing she said could have convinced me otherwise. 

She gave me a brief explanation about how women cooked, cleaned and cared for the children, and men earned the income. So that little story explains to y'all why I feel I should have been a 1950's housewife.

Without further digression, here's how you make basic gravy, of which I prefer to use bacon grease in stead of sausage, but you can use either.

Ingredients

2 T Bacon Grease

2 T Flour

1 Cup Milk




Directions

Heat your bacon grease on medium heat.
Whisk in your flour a little at a time, whisking after each addition.
Cook the grease and flour for about a minute and then slowly add your milk a little at a time, whisk until smooth.
I also add salt and pepper. Let the gravy bubble just a little, add more milk if necessary.

This makes just enough for the three of us, we like a lot of gravy over our biscuits.