Chocolate Gravy?

9 years ago

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Have you had this old southern staple, chocolate gravy?

It is a deep South, down-home-cooking-at-its-best, special breakfast treat. It could be dessert, too.

In my other life, we often had to come in to work very early at the Little Rock AFB Public Affairs office.

During these special duty days, Nancy (our civilian secretary/office mother), would bring all the fixings and would cook and serve hot, homemade biscuits, chocolate gravy, and bacon for us. We had orange juice and coffee, too!

Our captain had a fit when he came in at 4 a.m. one morning to find all of us, plus six NASA officials, sitting around the big newspaper layout table, chowing down on all the goodies, while Nancy kept filling paper plates and slathering on more gravy. He had expected to take them out for a bland fancy restaurant breakfast, not feed them "that stuff" in the workroom.

The NASA guys loved the chocolate gravy breakfast and the "family" ambiance. They were on the base as part of the visiting space shuttle's support staff, mid-1980s.

There are several recipes in the linked article. I make mine more like the "Charles Wilcox Tennessee Chocolate Gravy" which is about half way down the article.

Think Spanish Churros con chocolate, Southern USA style!

http://www.kentucky.com/latest-news/article44025768.html

Adjust the amount of sugar to taste.

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9 years ago

I like chocolate. I like gravy. I like biscuits. Somehow I couldn't wrap my mouth around chocolate sauce on biscuits. I do let mine swim in butter, though.

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murraysmom Zone 6a OH
9 years ago
I've never heard of it, but it certainly sounds interesting and you paint a most delightful picture!!! :)
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Shades_of_idaho
9 years ago
Maybe if the biscuits were sweet too.
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murraysmom Zone 6a OH
9 years ago
Like the biscuits on the side of the Bisquick box that is for strawberry shortcake. I love that stuff. It is sweet, but not overly so and it really sops up strawberry juice deliciously!!
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User
9 years ago
That's the one I use, too. And the plain biscuit recipe for creamed chicken. I don't roll them out, I just drop them by the spoon full.
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caroline94535
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9 years ago
Gravy experiment results...

I would give my efforts a B-, and that would be generous.

This particular chocolate gravy recipe was far too sweet - even after I had reduced the amount of sugar.

Next month I'll tweak a second recipe, reduce the sugar down to 2 Tbls., max, and try it again.

I need Nancy here; I was such a pampered princess; she, or my neighbor, Freeda, or two of my sweet sisters-in-law, always provided this delicacy.

This gravy was good, just far too sweet and "not like Nancy's." The home smoked bacon was to die for. The eggs were perfectly perfect, but what's easier to cook than eggs?
murraysmom Zone 6a OH
9 years ago
That does look really good, Caroline!! Mmmmm, I wish I was sitting there with you!!
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stringweaver
9 years ago
I have never heard of that. Sounds great.

this summer I made a chocolate strawberry jam. It didn't gel well, so it's a sauce. Rather tart with a low amount of palm sugar, sliced strawberries and cocoa powder. I usually put my jams on yogurt and it was too puckery when combined with plain yogurt, but oh lord, it is astonishingly good on ice cream.

I'll have to try it on shortcake biscuits.
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User
9 years ago
Looks good, but sounds way too sweet ... I'd try with little if any sugar and some nice ground chilis for a mole style sauce.

I bet that's what they were copying, and then the Southern love of sweets took over.
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schoolhouse_gw
9 years ago
Chocolate plus bacon. Just so happens I was at our small grocery in town yesterday and in the deli case there was something called "dark bacon chocolate". It was indeed pieces of dark chocolate with bacon in it! The girl gave me a sample - not bad.

Never heard of chocolate gravy.
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