This is an old fashioned - vintage chocolate gravy that taste just like a warm chocolate sauce. This delicious chocolate gravy is served over homemade buttermilk biscuits.
Mom always told us kids that we couldn't leave the table until we cleaned our plates. Ugh when we had SOS it never happened for me. I just couldn't eat that stuff. There were many of mornings that I sat at the breakfast table with my plate un touched. Mom finally gave in and let me up, but she was not happy about it one bit.
To my surprise one morning my mom prepared Chocolate Gravy with Buttermilk Biscuits and it was love at first site!!!! from that day on my mother made SOS for my dad and her delicious chocolaty gravy for us kids.
Every weekend my eyes would light up when I would see hot biscuits and a big pot of Chocolate Gravy gracing our breakfast table. I could never get to the table fast enough to dig in.
I told my husband about my moms famous Chocolate Gravy only for him to turn his nose up to it along with my children. They thought I was crazy and I thought to myself what's wrong with these people don't they know a good thing when they hear it.
Oh well I prepared it for them whether they liked it or not. The thought that crossed my mind was "if they don't eat then I know I will" I made the chocolaty gravy and had my daughter help me in the kitchen.
I baked up some homemade biscuits and said who wants some??????? what did I hear? silence!!! It was at that moment that I truly thought they were all nuts. I made myself a bowl and gave my husband a taste and he said that's pretty good. To my surprise there stood my daughter with a cute little smile on her face asking if she could have a taste.
I gave her a bite and a bit of a grin popped up on her face... hmmm does she like it???? Do you like it? That's good mom and so chocolaty. Off to the kitchen she she went breaking up biscuits and dumping chocolate gravy all over the top.
Mackenzie ran upstairs to tell her older brother to go and get some of this chocolaty stuff mom made for breakfast. My oldest son Travis said yuck!!! Mackenzie said just taste it.
Who do you think came running down the stairs to get a bowl? If they would of just listened to me in the first place. I yelled hey I thought you said this stuff was gross. All I heard from the top of the stairs was this is good mom can you make it again? My heart smiled!!!!
Now let's get started and I will show you how to make this delicious chocolate gravy. I hope y our family loves it as much as mine.
These are the ingredients you'll need: all purpose flour, sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder (baking cocoa), butter (not margarine), vanilla extract and milk (not pictured)
Start by adding all the dry ingredients to a medium sized pot.
add the milk
and whisk the dry ingredients together with the milk. Bring bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to med-low and stir constantly to prevent the mixture from scorching. The mixture will start to thicken up. 
Once the mixture thickens, remove from heat and add the butter and the vanilla extract. Mix until the butter is melted and well blended. Serve over hot buttermilk biscuits.
Southern Chocolate Gravy
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Ingredients:
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 - heaping tablespoons flour (I use white lily)
1 - heaping tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/4 - cups milk
1 - tablespoon butter or margarine
1/2 - teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
Add all the dry ingredients to a medium sized pot.
Add the milk, using a whisk combine the dry ingredients with the milk. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to med-low and stir constantly to prevent the mixture from scorching.
The mixture will start to thicken up. When it thickens remove from heat, add the butter and the vanilla extract. Mix well until the butter is melted and everything is blended together.
Pour the hot chocolate gravy over split homemade buttermilk biscuits. I like tear my biscuits into pieces first and then add them to a bowl and pour the chocolate gravy all over the biscuits.
If you want to be really evil, butter your biscuits first and then pour on the gravy. Lordy it's sinful, but so good.
Cooks Note: If by chance your gravy is not at the consistency that you want. You can mix a bit of flour and milk together and add it to the boiling chocolate mixture to thicken it as much as you like. Some people like their chocolate gravy a bit thin and some a bit thicker.
Servings: 4
Pour the hot chocolate gravy over split homemade buttermilk biscuits. I like tear my biscuits into pieces first and then add them to a bowl and pour the chocolate gravy all over the biscuits.
If you want to be really evil, butter your biscuits first and then pour on the gravy. Lordy it's sinful, but so good.
Cooks Note: If by chance your gravy is not at the consistency that you want. You can mix a bit of flour and milk together and add it to the boiling chocolate mixture to thicken it as much as you like. Some people like their chocolate gravy a bit thin and some a bit thicker.
Servings: 4
39 comments
Thanks to Mommy's Kitchen for the recipe. :) I love this stuff.
4 generations loving it. We take the left over gravy and refridgerate it and put whipped cream on top for a delicious dessert.
It's a French dish. One of these days I'll remember the French name.
DWarter@q.com
This was truly divine and I will be definitely making it again!!!
Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe!
It was a HUGE hit and I have to say that even as a grown-up I think it's pretty good! We definetly had a special breakfast.
Thanks for sharing.
I never had chocolate gravy until I was married, my husband's grandparents living in West Virigina all their lives & it was one of the foods they made. Our family now makes chocolate gravy as a special treat for a birthday breakfast or whenever else we want it. We make our gravy with water. I'm not sure we put vanilla in our recipe. I'll have to get it out & compare :)
Beverly
everything taste better when mom and grandma make it. It's a true fact. :)
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. We just added till it looked right. But some would never quite have the right taste. If you could make the cocoa like grandma then you were elevated in stature, lol
This recipe sounds like what my mom used to make a deep dish pie(like a cobbler but usually 4-5 layers thick in a round pan similar to a cake pan with no tube in the middle.
She mixed these ingredients (except we had Pet Milk mixed with water, instead of whole milk)
and cooked as this recipe describes.
Then she used this 'gravy' and layered it with a a homemade pie dough. Baked in the oven until that layer had risen, cooked and browned. She would then remove it from the oven, Add another layer of 'gravy' and some butter
before adding another layer of the dough.
She'd repeat this at least 4 maybe 5 times until we had what she called A Chocolate Pie that was about 3 to 3 1/2 inch tall when completed.
Mom was a great cook but this was by far my most favorite dessert when I was growing up. Better than German chocolate cake, better than pound cake, better than anything was mom's chocolate pie.
Mom died at 77 2 years ago and I have been so unhappy because I never learned how to make this and nobody in my whole family knew how.
I will be buying ingredients tomorrow to make one of these.
I am so excited.
from Andalusia, Al
Regard’s
Amy Winchester @foodrecipe.org