What exactly is biscuits and gravy.?

Question

in the uk a biscuit is rich tea,custard creams,jammie dodgers etc....when i hear biscuits and gravy i imagine these with gravy on them,yuk.

Answer 1

biscuits are baked flour dough. they are split open and gravy put over them..............very good!!!!
Recipe for biscuits

2 c Flour
4 ts Baking powder
3 tb Butter
3/4 c butterMilk

Mix dry ingredients and butter with 2 knives as
for pastry. Add milk and mix. Roll out an inch
thick. Cut in rounds, brush over tops with melted
butter. Bake about 15 minutes in a 350 degree
oven.

recipe for sausage gravy

1 pound Ground pork sausage
3 tablespoons All-purpose flour
3 cups Milk

Preparation
1 Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Remove sausage, drain and set aside.
2 Pour off most of the fat from the pan, leaving about 2 to 3 tablespoons. Return pan to medium-low heat and add flour. Using a whisk, stir vigorously until roux forms, scraping bottom of pan. Reduce heat to low and let roux cook at least 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3 Add milk in a stream, whisking the whole time. After adding about 2 1/2 cups, turn heat to medium and continue cooking, stirring constantly. Bring gravy to a boil and cook to desired thickness. Add more milk if a thinner gravy is desired. add the cooked and crumbled sausage to the gravy.

Answer 2

Exactly, biscuits with gravy on top of them. The gravy is usually made with sausage, and often has pieces of sausage in it. The biscuits are usually split to sop up more of the gravy. American cafes that serve breakfast almost always have biscuits and gravy as an offering, usually a large plate of it by itself, but sometimes to go alongside eggs and sausage.

Answer 3

American biscuits are different from European biscuits. Ours are fluffy shortbreads like scones, but savory, not sweet. They're great by themselves, split with a pat of butter inside. Yum! Biscuits and gravy is a breakfast dish (as far as I know it's a breakfast dish). The biscuits are split and topped with white gravy that has sausage bits in it. Yummm!!!

If I'm not mistaken, what you call biscuits, we call cookies. In America, cookies are denser than biscuits, they are not at all the same thing. Cookies are flatter and harder, biscuits are lighter and soft because they're actually a bread. Cookies may be either chewey or hard, some even crispy, but biscuits are always thick and soft. If they're hard, they're overcooked.

Answer 4

Something I love and have not made in a long time. I get some big Pillsbury biscuits in the thing that pops open and makes you jump and bake them. Then I get the Jimmy Dean sausage in a tube and fry it up. Then I get some milk and slowly add flour until it thickens in a sauce pan and then throw in the sausage. Then I cut the biscuits in half and put the gravy mixture on top. YUMM!

Answer 5

Open faced biscuits with gravy (normally sausage gravy for breakfast) poured on top of the biscuits

Answer 6

A biscuit is a small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.
Biscuits and creamed sausage gravy is a popular breakfast dish in Southern U.S. cuisine.

Answer 7

A biscuit in the USA is made from flour, baking powder, salt and lard, and buttermilk. It is mixed up into a dough and turned out on a floured board. Then you knead the dough for just a minute of two and then using a rolling pin you roll out the dough and cut it with a round cutter about two-three inches in width. Place the rounds on an ungreased baking pan and bake in the oven until just slightly golden brown on the tops. I immediatley brush with melted butter over the tops, just as soon as they come out of the oven.
When they are baked, take them out of the oven and sjplit them in two. Pour white sausage gravy over the tops and eat while hot. Very tasty.

Answer 8

In addition to the other answers, and fine ones they are too - biscuits and gravy are GOOD EATING!

Answer 9

biscuit-a small mound of leavened bread
gravy-the fat and juices that drip from cooking meat, often thickened, seasoned, flavored, etc., and used as a sauce for meat, potatoes, rice, etc.

Biscuits and gravy is normally biscuits with sausage gravy poured over them.

Answer 10

In the USA biscuits are a bit like our scones but savoury, they serve them with gravy.