Is "white gravy" or "milk gravy" only a southern thing? Northerners???

Question

We always made it from a flour roux, the fat being bacon drippings, many times. After the roux is good and set, we put in a lot of milk. It thickens, and we (we being Southerners with a standard set table) loved that gravy on and beside nearly everything.

Do any Northerners do this?

Answer 1

it is extremely popular all over the country. i am from oregon. there we call it sawmill gravy. that is some good eats with chicken friend steak.
I have traveled all over the country with them military. sawmill gravy is everywhere.
now gritts. pretty much as soon as you cross the mason dixon line they straight up vanish. pitty.
walt

Answer 2

I serve pork loin filets, with a milk gravy, at my restaurant. It's started the same way as you do it: a roux (we use butter and olive oil, not bacon drippings...we don't want to send any of our customers to the ICU). It's flavored with some cracked white and black peppercorns, a little salt, and some chopped cilantro.

At home, I'll use bacon drippings, though. Great on pork, chicken, and fish, too! BTW, I'm in Pennsylvania.

Answer 3

Gravy? Oh you people in the South have such a great sense of humor, you must be referring to one of the great "Mother" SAUCES, not gravy, gravy is what you make after a buyout on the stock market and all the dividends are paid.
LOL boy that was fun. Bush? we put our pants on the same way you do, just as we 50/50 up or Roux. Good Gravy! we're all the same!
Whatcha pourin the Gravy over Bush? hhuuuhh? Share

Answer 4

Well I live in the south and my family lives in the north so I know that it isn't nearly as popular up in the north. Most of the time the "northerners" that do it are transplant family's from the southern culture of white gravy eating folks.

Answer 5

I Make Sausage Gravy That Way.Not Anything Else Thou.

Answer 6

I make milk gravy, sausage gravy served over biscuits, chicken gravy, pork chop gravy and you name it. I was raised in central California, moved to Missouri then to Canada. Canadians don't make milk gravy and can not understand Americana's love for gravy, but Canadians will drown there french fries in a brown substance they call gravy. Go figure.

Answer 7

Southerners definitely do it the cheap way with the milk instead of heavy cream but I have been making it either way for years. Bechemel sauce, hollandaise sauce, and plain ole' gravy for the biscuits and gravy thing.

Answer 8

I don't think they used it as much. I was born in Southern California and raised in Southern Colorado. I love milk gravy on everything

Answer 9

Yes we NORTHERNERS eat that and use it. It just that it is not as well liked up here as it is down there by the southern folk. But few of us Yankees especially with southern grandparents get the chance to try it man they know how to cook down there.

Answer 10

I live in the Northwest (Washington state) and I make home gravy like that all the time.