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Biscuits and gravy is a popular breakfast meal in the United States, especially in the South.
It consists of soft dough biscuits covered in thick "country" or "white" gravy, made from the drippings of cooked pork sausage, white flour, milk, and often (but not always) bits of sausage, bacon, ground beef, or other meat. The gravy is often flavored with black pepper. In some parts of the southern United States this is also called sawmill gravy.
History
Although the American-English and English languages use the same word for biscuit to refer to two distinctly different modern edible foods, early hard biscuits (North American: cookies), were derived from a twice-baked product, whereas the North American biscuit is similar to a savoury European scone.
Early European settlers in the United States brought with them a simpler and easy style of cooking, most often based on meat, ground wheat and warmed with gravy. After the first pigs were carried from England to Jamestown, Virginia in 1608, they became popular as a home-grown edible animal.[1]
The meal emerged as a distinct regional dish after the American War of Independence, when stocks of food stuffs were in short supply. Breakfast was necessarily the most substantial meal of the day in the South, for a person facing a day of work on the plantations.[1] While everyone wanted something different and distinct from the British, the lack of supplies and money meant it also had to be cheap.[1]
Variations
While biscuits and gravy generally refers to sausage gravy, it can also refer to egg gravy, made in one of two ways:
- by scrambling eggs in bacon grease, then adding flour and milk to make gravy, and adding crumbled bacon back to the mixture
- by making a basic roux, creating a brown gravy base, then whisking beaten eggs into the boiling gravy
Tomato gravy is white gravy mixed with crushed or diced tomatoes.
Biscuits and gravy can be ordered as either a full meal from Bob Evans[2] or as a side item ("half order", usually a single biscuit) or the main course ("full order", usually two biscuits).
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References
- ^ a b c "Biscuits & Cookies". Food Timeline. Retrieved 201-01-15.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Biscuits & Gravy Recipes". Bob Evans. Retrieved 203-01-15.
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