HOW TO MAKE BROWN SAUSAGE GRAVY FROM SCRATCH

My Father in law brought me home a quart of  Home Canned Sausage from the Country.. his friend raises pigs up in Pendleton County.. I decided to use it today with my Brown Gravy and Biscuits..

The sausage  balls were  already cooked and fall apart tender due to being canned  so I just put it in a pot and heated it…. took out the large balls for us to eat by themselves as a side meat.. and the smaller parts I reserve for my gravy…

Now get you a skillet… any heavy skillet will do.. put in your grease and about a small egg size of Butter

let it get really hot but not smoking

now take about… oh.. 3 heaping Tbsp of self rising flour and sprinkle about the hot grease.. (I don’t measure it)

have a wooden spoon ready to start stirring .. you want the flour to BROWN.. almost to a burn but NOT a burn.. if you get my drift ….. this is called your roux it gives off  a nutty smell when browned

NOW you will add you a can of evaporated Milk while stirring at the same time

NOW you will have a tall glass of water beside you ready to pour in.. a little at a time… can’t tell you how much I use cause it is according to how the gravy goes as I make it…

you pour it in and stir stir… and you let it boil but turn heat down as it boils so it can thicken up

then add more and stir.. ect.. you get the idea..

Kaye so NOW.. you are ready to SEASON.. season with SALT and PEPPER.. don’t be stingy…but don’t go all crazy either.. taste.. then season TASTE then season.. you can ALWAYS add more so use caution and build on taste that makes a good cook..

at this point you  stir and you have BROWN GRAVY…

I want sausage gravy so I now add my crumbled tender chunks of cooked sausage

so I will have a nice gravy that tastes great but is not greasy

now your ready to serve your sausage gravy with your eggs, biscuits, sausage balls, applesauce and whatever else you want to go with it..