Biscuits and Chocolate Gravy

Y'all, it's like chocolate pudding

Y'all! Thank y'all! I hate that in this corner I can't see our friends over there

They can see you. But anyway, now I'm going to teach my son Bobby

Bobby and Claudia don't normally eat this way, but, you know, the South..

I'm open. I know you are. The South is a wonderful place to live and raise your children

And in different regions of the South, you're going to find different things

Well, what I'm fixing to share with y'all now is a recipe for chocolate gravy

Mmm. I had never eaten or made chocolate gravy when I first started doing, you know, my TV shows

And I got letters from people, Paula, have you ever made chocolate gravy

I said I've made chocolate sauce a thousand times for my children's ice cream when they were little

But chocolate gravy is very original to Kentucky. I think maybe certain parts of Tennessee, Missouri

and they love... Now Georgia. Yes. And they love their chocolate gravy

and they always serve it with biscuits. Chocolate gravy, anybody? Anybody here familiar with it

Ever heard of it? All right, we're going to start... This is new to me. We're going to start with our cast iron skillet, Bobby. Okay

And I want you to level off three tablespoons of flour. Okay

And you can use that to level with. and you'll need to take your, remember butter will burn, so you want to take your whisk and start

moving that around very quickly Okay And now you want to level off two tablespoons of cocoa right there and we just using a regular unsweetened cocoa and you can make it as dark as you like but I would level off because cocoa

cocoa is, it's really chocolatey. Two? Yes. So just this easy

All right, three, that's three tablespoons of self-rising gravy. And if you're

Self-rising gravy? Wonderful. I mean, self-rising flour, I'm sorry. Two tablespoons of cocoa

And now we're going to add one cup of sugar. This could easily burn, if you're not careful. Yes

You almost need two people on this. This is why I have not left this

I picked that whisk up immediately. And this is fast, too. Shouldn't you have made the biscuits first

Well, I want it. Since you had never made this, I'm going to do it

And I still haven't made it. Oh, OK. All right. You just..

I'm sorry, son. It's all right. All right, pick up your thing

I've done nothing. See, that's why I jumped over there, because I was afraid you wouldn't get that whisk going quick enough

So we're going to slowly add two and a half cups of milk to our sugar

And we're cooking a really low temperature, but this skillet must be really hot

Well, we had the skillet on getting hot for us. All right, that was two cups

and now we're going to add another half a cup. And now I am going to move on to our biscuits

Okay. All right, now I'm going to come over here and I'm going to share with y'all a product

that I am so very proud of, and it is our biscuit mix at the Lady and Sons

We have worked on this for years. You have some fine cheese biscuits. And, uh, yes

And I feel like we have just perfected this. When I'm home, I like to roll my biscuit

because I want them to look like my grandmothers. Now, I'm gonna not add as much milk as it calls for

because remember I gonna cut and roll How many tablespoons of flour did you put in there Uh two OK you supposed to put three OK well you said two I was doing what you said I sorry that what I was thinking

So it may be a little thinner than it should be. All right, now I'm going to add milk until I get this dough kind of

oh, I used every bit of it. But that amount of milk called for two cups of biscuit mix

and I used more than that, so I'm gonna borrow the milk from over here

And the beauty of this is you don't have to have anything

but milk and the mix. And you don't want to over-mix it

I just want to make sure that all the flour is wet with the milk

This is beginning to look really good. I know. And I didn't have faith in it in the beginning

So very seldom do I actually roll these. I mainly just use my hands

I've got cast iron pans, my hoe cake pans, and I cook my biscuits on my black skillet hoe cake pans

because it only has just a little bitty curved-up edge so all the sides of my biscuits can get good and done

And if I've got the time, I'll actually heat that skillet with some butter in it

Before you put your biscuits on it? Yeah, so the bottom of the biscuits I know are going to be nice and crusty

You're just full of it, Pearl. So I'm just going to butter my pan

Got all kinds of tips and tricks for an extra 15 pounds or so

Look at these beautiful biscuits, y'all. Does that look like a biscuit granny used to make or what? Mm-hmm

I just gently fold it back together, and you know I'm going to use every drop

And you're intentionally jamming all those biscuits together on the trail? I like my biscuits to have soft sides

so I like for them to touch And my grandma hires every time she made a biscuit she would stick her little knuckles in her flour dish

and she would do this to the top of every one of her biscuits

Now, I don't know why she did that. Unless she wanted a little hole to put her jelly in

I don't have a clue. But she did it, I do it

Well, I don't think that most people would know to crowd the pan like that. Oh, well, it just depends, son

You know, if you like your biscuit hard all the way around or if you like some soft sides

And then I'm going to take my little butter, you know, and just drop a little bit of butter

Now, if you wanted to make a sweet biscuit, make you almost like a cinnamon roll with this

You could add sugar to it, some cinnamon, and some nuts and some raisins, and do it the same way

Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top. Yum. Golly. Yum. So, Bobby

Yes, ma'am. Pie is your gravy coming, son. I hope I didn't mess you up

No, no, no, I don't think so. It looks like it's got a nice... There's a couple of little lumps of the flour in there that I added last, but..

Okay, I'm going to taste and see what it needs. A biscuit

I'm thinking that. Y'all, it's like eating chocolate pudding

All right, so let's get these in the oven, and we're going to cook them in a pretty hot oven

You got it, baby? Got it. Okay. Doesn't that look like Granny's biscuits

So what do you think about chocolate gravy