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 eat it by crumbling up some fresh made biscuits and covering them with some warm gravy. But people 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, and you have a well-rounded Southern breakfast.
Peggy’s Breakfast Gravy
This is Mama Peggy's gravy recipe as served up at Peggy's Restaurant in Kings Mountain, NC.
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)
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.
- Serve on a plate, in a bowl or (best of all) over fresh baked biscuits. Enjoy!
Notes
Serving size: 1/3 cup Calories: 205 Fat: 13.0 g Saturated fat: 6.4 g Unsaturated fat: 1.0 g Trans fat: 5.0 g Carbohydrates: 12.0 g Sugar: 8.0 g Sodium: 294.2 mg Fiber: 0.4 g Protein: 10.0 g Cholesterol: 34.5 mg
Perfect!! 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.
I used this recipe this morning and it turned out perfect! Thank you so much for sharing it.
My fiance likes sausage gravy over biscuits. I tried to make it and it didn’t turn out very good. Would I use the above ingredients and substitute the bacon with sausage or is there another recipe I should use.
Thanks for you help and I am so glad I found your website. May God richly bless you.
Jean Miles
You can use sausage instead of bacon. Basically the same idea. You’re just using the grease to form the basis of your gravy. Although usually with sausage you set the sausage aside until you’ve made your gravy, but add it back when you’re done. That’s the only real difference, I think.
That is how my family has been cooking breakfast gravy for years! It is the most down to earth way of cooking!