Red Eye Gravy recipe

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Here it is:
Save 2-3 tablespoons meat drippings in skillet (preferably bacon).
Add enough flour to grease to make a paste consistency.Don't let it get to dark in color.
Add either water or milk like regular gravy to your liking in thickness.With milk it looks like melted strawberry ice cream.
Add either fresh chopped tomatoes or can (reg. size can)tomatoes including the juice.
Simmer on a very low heat until the tomatoes are hot.

 

[Tamora Rademacher]

Thanks! That gravey made the best BBLT, biscuits, bacon, lettuce and tomato gravy.

Grandpa used to finish a couple of these off then after every meal eat a biscuit, covered in a slab of home churned butter and topped with Bob White syrup (kinda like corn syrup). Grandma churned all the butter they ever ate up until 1977!

 

[bnail]

Thanks! That gravey made the best BBLT, biscuits, bacon, lettuce and tomato gravy.

Grandpa used to finish a couple of these off then after every meal eat a biscuit, covered in a slab of home churned butter and topped with Bob White syrup (kinda like corn syrup). Grandma churned all the butter they ever ate up until 1977!

Hey Tamora, that "churned" up a few memories, My own Grand parents did just about about the same thing, only the Syrup was Golden Eagle. Man, to this day it's one of my favorite "Desearts, a hot buttered biscuit with Golden Syrup and a hut Cup of Coffee. really balances out the Red eye gravy!.
That's it, I gotta get me a good country ham; time for a trek to see the relatives!

 

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The memories for me are of Christmas morning breakfasts. We still have hot homemade biscuits with both gravies, bacon, and eggs. My children are grown now and it is still a family tradition.
Matt turns his nose up at the chocolate gravy, but the kids would probably mutiny if it wasn't fixed.
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