What are biscuits and gravy?

I'm not an American, but I found a recipe: http://www.foodreference.com/html/artbiscuitsandgravy.html The ingredients look a little bit odd, I also found a picture thought which looks quite nice.

Biscuits and sausage gravy is so good. The gravy is a white gravy made with milk. Some call it milk gravy. You put sausage in it and put over buttered biscuits. Its good over toast too. Also instead of sausage chipped beef is good in the gravy. We call that SOS. That stands for Sh.. on the shingle.

I don't care for them, but my husband loves them. american biscuits are little round , doughy rolls. They are baked in the oven. A white gravy goes on top of them. They are often served with sausage. By the way, what is a crumpet?

Not all Americans rave about biscuits and gravy. It's standard fare in the southeastern part of the US. I lived there the last 4 years, and I never did acquire a taste for the stuff. At the school where I worked they used to haul in piles of biscuits and huge pots of thick white gravy, and the staff gobbled the stuff down. I think people in the south started eating biscuits and gravy because it was a poor area of the country, and they are cheap to make. Southerners also eat grits with their breakfast. Nasty! Up here in the north where I've lived most of my life, people prefer bacon, eggs, hash browns, and other breakfast foods. I liked some of the southern cooking, like chicken and dumplings, banana pudding, and peach cobbler, but their breakfast favorites definitely weren't mine.

About 10 minutes ago my hubby just informed me he would like me to make biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast tomorrow. Yummmy. I love it ! I live in the south and it is very popular here. Although not all southerners like grits we can't stand them. ~~ American by birth .. Southern by the grace of God. ~~

im also from the uk i have never heard of this before but it tends to look wuite nice. i bet it is very rich though. i might have to try this soon. one day lol

biscuits in america are made of flour and egg and milk,use self rising flower and 3 eggs and a little milk and stir together and you can roll it out and use a glass to cut them in circles and then bake them or I just put the dough on a cookie sheet and pat it down till it looks even all the way around and bake until done.Gravy is made with meat most common is sausage which you fry up and then drain the grease out into a bowl and then set the sausage aside put the grease back in skillet warm back up put flour in until grease is all absorbed and then add milk slowly stirring constantly and it will thicken as it cooks add the sausage back continue to cook until desired thickness.Americans love it because it is very tasty and filling.

I have also wondered what biscuits and gravy was also grits what is grits.?

Biscuits are made with flour/milk/oil/and salt. They are light and yummy with or without gravy. They are super just buttered with eggs. Gravy is usually made from the drippings of turkey, chicken, or meat mixed with flour and a dark flovored gravy master. Usually served like this with supper.

There is a restaurant here that serves Biscuits and sausage gravy,it is so wonderful, I don't make it at home.The restaurant is Bob Evans,they are across America,I think.It is so tasty,but full of fat and cholesterol,so I don't have it very often.

This discussion makes me smile :) I'm a Canadian who married a Kentucky boy. The first thing I had to learn to cook for him was biscuits and sausage gravy (he was devastated to find, when he moved up here, that we don't "do" this for breakfast LOL). I asked his mom and his aunt how to make it and went from there. They prefer Jimmy Dean sage sausage (I think that's what it's called??) but we can't buy that here. So I use a regular pork sausage meat and flavor it with ground sage. My grandmother came over from England and she used to be very fond of dishes like chicken a la king served in patty shells or on toast. The basic white sauce that forms the base for "a la king" reminds me very much of the white gravy for biscuits and gravy. I make them both the same way... except for biscuits and gravy, I pre-cook the sausage and use the drippings for making the white sauce, whereas otherwise I'd just make a roux with butter or margarine and flour. (My hubby was also stunned that our McDonald's doesn't sell sausage biscuits LOL We have sausage mcmuffins here, on an english muffin. Tim Horton's just introduced sausage biscuits and I swear he was about the first one in line to buy one!)

I think you have gotten the proper description, although I must say Not ALL americans like biscuits and Gravy. I think it is predominetly found in the south, although i'm sure some northerners enjoy it as well. I don't like biscuits and gravy, i think it's quite discusting, but my husband likes it.

Hi owlwings I understand from doing lots of reading that American "biscuits" are basically scones or very close to scone dough. and of course our crisp biscuits are cookies. Have never worked out why but that's what I have seen and been told. Can't quite get my head around the concept of milky gravy on scones... it does sound like a substitute for stew and dumplings or similar food, but I wouldn't call that breakfast either. Similar food but very different purposes eh? Much prefer raspberry jam and whipped cream on my scones any day LOL, and just for the record I am an Aussie :))

Ymmmmm...biscuits and gravy are a classic breakfast dish in the South. The gravy is made by mixing flour and seasonings into hot meat drippings, cooking that down then adding milk and cooking til it thickens to "gravy". I think other names for this mixing of flour oil and milk are "white sauce" and "roux". We have another tasty treat here in KY. It's called The Hot Brown. It's an open faced ham and turkey sandwich draped with a blanket of white sauce and cheese. Pillowed on top are sliced tomatoes and strips of bacon.

Oh no you done hit something I love!! Ok let me tell ya about biscuits n gravy. Ok, biscuits are a type of roll I reckon you can call them. You can make them from scratch or buy dough pre-made and just stick them in the oven. I'm all about saving time, so I buy the pre-made dough. Any way, while their a bakin, you fry your self some sausage, pork sausage is the best. Once the sausage is done, you remove them from your skillet. Now you have sausage oil and some of sausage crums left in the skillet. You add about a table spoon of flour while the skillet is hot and brown it. Now you pour some milk in it till you get the thickness or thinness you want. I like mine in the middle. Add some salt and pepper. Now you pull those hot biscuits out of the oven and pour that gravy over top of them. Slap some of the sausages on the side and have at it. It’s essentially one of the most un-healthiest meals you can fix, but man is it good. I don’t mind, I never wanted to be a super model anyway. LOL