Answer the biscuit question already

[Kelley]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., aichambaye at y... wrote:
> this food topic is fun. 
> 
> OK, I'm taking Twinkies, Bisquick, Reeses Cups to Neil. I, being a 
> Southern Woman, can make a mean sausage gravy (pork grease, 
> seasoning, flour, and milk - not for Neil), but scratch biscuits 
> (these are not the cookie type biscuits) are easier with a mix (but 
> are fantastic with butter, and I bet anyone can do them with the 
> Bisquick!). <<<<<<<<

You know, we just had the biscuit vs. cookie vs. scone discussion 
over on my other obsession list (Eddie Izzard).  It's so strange when 
all your worlds collide...  If you like the cheese-garlic biscuits 
from Red Lobster, I have a recipe for them made with Bisquick.  
Absolutely dee-lish...

> You cannot make white gravy without sausage and have it come out ok.
> I don't eat pork but I eat sausgae gravy. Even the mixes are based 
in powdered animal stuff, so I don't think Neil will be eating any. 
> Penny, have you ever tried to make "cream" gravy? (No cream in it: 
is this some Yankee name for gravy? When we say gravy it's white. We 
say brown gravy if we mean otherwise!) It has no taste at all if you 
> don't have enough sausage grease in it. I cant imagine how horrible 
> it would be with vegetable oil. (My parents own a Southen 
restaurant and he family does the cooking - I learned from my Mom and 
Gramma.) <<<<<<<<<<<<<

Cool!  Where are you?  Penny is no 'Yankee', heehee, no more than I 
am.  We're both Texans.  (Penny, you're not a transplant, right? 
<g>)  Cream/Milk/White gravy are all the same.  Bacon grease and pork 
chop grease work as well as sausage for it.  Brown gravy is brown 
gravy.  Cream gravy is the one that's always served with chicken-
fried steak.

> Sausage gravy doens't always have "chunks" of sausgae in it, as it 
it had been ground and added later. It's made in the pan after you 
cook your sausage.<<<<<<<

No, you're right, but you know, sometimes you have to specify with or 
without...

> Simon? Would you like some gravy mix?
> 
> Heather M., who is having WAAAY to much fun over here hassling the 
> Brits - and now the Yankees. Heh heh heh. <<<<<<<<<<<<
 
Hahaha.  When you go over, you'll have to show them how to make sweet 
iced tea, too.  My friend, Stuart (in Walsall) says about that "Ick, 
ick, ick, double-ick, and poo..."  That's a direct quote.  My friend 
Sarah, also on that list, from Melbourne, will be visting the US this 
fall, and worries that she won't be able to get her daily morning cup 
of tea.  (Hot, that is...)  We're so uncivilised...

Kelley--who's glad that here's a topic I have some experience with...
"A biscuit?  Thank you..."  said in my best dog-with-a-big-f.o.-beard 
voice...          (EI, "Glorious")