Saw Mill Gravy ( pepper gravy)

Saw Mill Gravy ( pepper gravy) Recipe
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Recipe Rating:
 2 Ratings
Categories: Other Breakfast, Gravies
Keywords: sausage, Southern
Serves: 5 cups
Cook Time:

Ingredients

1/3 c oil, veg. or canola
3/4 c flour
1 1/2 tsp coarse black pepper
1 1/4 tsp salt
4 c milk
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Millie's Notes:

This is southern Saw Mill gravy also called pepper gravy. For breakfast I add 1/2 lb. cooked sausage to it and serve it over biscuits. It is hard for me to make alittle of anything so refrigerate or freeze leftovers or cut recipe in half! You may need to add more milk if it is saved and reheated as it will thicken somewhat.

 

Directions

1
In medium to large pot add oil,flour,salt, and pepper. Heat on medium for 2 1/2 minutes stirring constantly. Do not let it brown! This is a light roux.
2
Pour milk in all at once, whisking as you do so. You can turn the heat up some but beware of scorching. Stir constantly. Bring to full boil. Add alittle more milk if it is too thick for your liking.
3
For sausage gravy add in 1/2 lb. crumbled, fully cooked sausage.
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user Millie Johnson BISCUITMAKR
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David Reeves Woodrow
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aug 13, 2012
Great sounding gravy, Millie! Makes me want to bake some hot biscuits right now! By the way, you might enjoy the group "The Breakfast Lovers Club".
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Aug 13, 2012
yummmm yum...the only thing I do different is, I use "bacon drippings" instead of your oil. And for sausage gravy I use "sausage drippings".

My Grandmother taught me to make gravy like this when I was a small child.
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Millie Johnson BISCUITMAKR
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aug 13, 2012
David,thank you for the heads up on The breakfast lovers club. I love breakfast! we have it for supper often.lol. Here's my biscuit recipe if you want it. Millie's Buttermilk Biscuits .
Cin, my grandma did it that way,too. My pawpaw made a dark bacon drippings gravy.Back then they didn't waste anything, not even scraps as those went to the hogs. They had a boar and sow and would sell all but one or two babies , which they fatten for butchering. I wish I knew how to cure like they did back then! That was some good eatin.
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Aug 13, 2012
Yes it was...back then they knew how to do it all, cause they had to. There wasn't any grocery stores just around the corner, they were miles away on a dirt road.
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Kathy Griffin bamagirl125
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aug 16, 2012
Millie, gravy was the first thing my mom taught me to cook, and if I have bacon or sausage I use the drippins. It has taken me a bit to learn to cook for just me & Joe but there is 2 things I still haven't been able to just make a little of and that is biscuits and gravy lol
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Millie Johnson BISCUITMAKR
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aug 16, 2012
Me too, Kathy! Hard to cook for just 2. Even if I start with a smaller pot/pan , most of the time I have to transfer it to a larger pot/pan. Now I just go with it and freeze the leftovers! lol.
Plus I don't have all the extra dirty pots/pans! haha
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Kathy Griffin bamagirl125
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aug 16, 2012
I freeze a lot of stuff too Millie, but I am learning, I have a large family so that is what I learned to cook for.
user Jan Wilson janmixer
I tried this recipe and say it's Family Tested & Approved!
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Millie Johnson BISCUITMAKR
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aug 22, 2012
Thank you Jan!
Kathy, I save those little foil containers from when we order Chinese food and use them to make homemade t.v. dinners with ! and forget a small pot of chili, stew or gumbo! Ain't gonna happen, lol :)
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Kathy Griffin bamagirl125
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aug 22, 2012
Millie I just made a pot ( big) of ham & potato soup just for me & Joe,, lol we will have lots of leftovers, and last night made a taco casserole ( 9x13) but am sending half to my sister cause we are having leftovers of it for lunch today,, and that is a great idea about the tv dinners, you know you can buy a 3 pk at the dollar tree

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