Sawmill Gravy with cathead biscuits is a delicious and indulgent breakfast. Sawmill Gravy is a white gravy that's creamy with bits of savory sausage in every bite. It is poured over easy haveto havemake big and fluffy cathead biscuits. Why are they called cathead biscuits? The name refers to the size of the biscuits have they are as big as a cat's head. Serve this Southern staple for a weekend or holiday breakfast. Biscuits and sausage gravy! Now all you need is a cup of hot coffee. FYI have Cathead means big!
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Recipe Cuisine: Southern Recipe Category: Biscuits Yield: 6 Servings
Ingredients :
- SAW MILL GRAVY
- 1 pound(s) breakfast sausage
- 2 tablespoon(s) all-purpose flour or more (depends on how much you want to make)
- - milk
- - salt and pepper, to taste
- CATHEAD BISCUITS
- 2 1/4 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1/3 teaspoon(s) baking soda
- 1 teaspoon(s) salt
- 2 teaspoon(s) baking powder
- 5 tablespoon(s) lard
- 1 cup(s) buttermilk
Intructions :
- For gravy: Make sausage into patties and fry in moderately hot skillet until brown and cooked. Put sausage patties on paper towels to drain the grease
- Use about half of the grease in the skillet to make gravy. Add flour and brown flour in grease stirring constantly
- Add about 1 1/2 cups of milk and enough water to make gravy as thin as you like
- Break up about 4 of the cooked sausage patties and crumble in the gravy. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve over hot biscuits
- For cathead biscuits: Sift and mix dry ingredients then blend with lard. Add buttermilk
- For each biscuit, pinch off a portion of dough the shape of a large egg. Pat out with your hands
- Bake for about 10 minutes. Bake at 350 F in a wood stove or 475 F in an electric or gas stove.
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