This is Mama Peggy’s gravy recipe as served up at Peggy’s Restaurant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina for almost 30 years. We always ate it by crumbling up some fresh made biscuits and covering them with some of this warm gravy. But folks also ate it with spoon from a plate, and biscuits or loaf bread on the side. Throw in a few pieces of bacon or sausage on the side, and you have a well-rounded Southern breakfast.
Ingredients
- ▢ — 8-12 slices bacon
- ▢ — 3 tbsp flour
- ▢ — 2 cups milk
- ▢ — 1 cup evaporated (canned) milk
- ▢ — 1 tbsp pepper
- ▢ — 2 tbsp butter (just in case)
Nutrition
- Calories 278
- Protein 10 g
- Total Fat 21 g
- — Saturated Fat 10 g
- Cholesterol 51 mg
- Sodium 300 mg
- Carbohydrates 12 g
- — Net Carbs 12 g
- — Fiber 0 g
- Sugars 8 g
Instructions
- ▢ — Over medium-high heat, cook bacon in a skillet until crisp.
- ▢ — Remove bacon and set aside (you can eat it if you like). Leave all the fat and yummy bits in the pan.
- ▢ — Turn down the heat to medium.
- ▢ — Add 3 tablespoons of flour and begin to whisk.
- ▢ — If flour starts balling up, you don't have enough fat. Bring out the butter! But add only if you need it.
- ▢ — Keep whisking the flour until the mixture turns light brown.
- ▢ — Add your milk while stirring. First the milk, then the evaporated milk.
- ▢ — Once the milk is in, it's just lots of whisking and waiting. Make sure not to walk away during this part. You need to stick with it, whisking and scraping down the sides. After a few minutes, it will thicken up.
- ▢ — Once the gravy has thickened, add ground black pepper to taste.
- ▢ — Salt to taste.
- ▢ — Continue whisking until the gravy is as thick as you like (but stop just shy of when you think it’ll be perfect; it’ll thicken up some more after that).
- ▢ — Serve on a plate, in a bowl or (best of all) over fresh baked biscuits. Enjoy!
Diana
October 24, 2020 11:05 amPerfect!! I so miss my family that has all passed on. I never learned to make gravy. Thank you for these easy instructions. People always just say,”Burn the flour first.” Well I always thought, “What the heck does that mean?” How do you burn flour? You guys are the best!! I really do enjoy this blog. Thank you. I used three cups of milk as I did not have evaporated.