Homemade Biscuits & Gravy

This comes from Cowboy Kent Rowlins

Buttermilk Biscuits

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 3 tbsp sugar
• ½ tsp salt
• 4 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp cream of tartar
• ¾ cup chilled butter (it should be hard)
• 1 egg
• 1¼ cups buttermilk

Directions

1. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and cream of tartar.
2. Cut ⅛ inch slices of butter into the mixture then break butter into crumbles in the mixture using a fork.
3. Lightly whip the egg and pour into the mixture.
4. Por in buttermilk and mix until incorporated into a moist, lumpy dough.
5. Sprinkle flour over the dough and coat your hands in flour then knead into a ball (30 second should do).
6. Spread for on the counter then place the dough on the counter and knead it for another minute to get everything well incorporated.
7. Roll dough into a ½ inch thick sheet.
8. Cut biscuits into 3″ circles and place in a little buttered baking dish.
9. Bake at 400° for 25(ish) minutes (while you make the gravy). (Still figuring out the exact time as I did it by look the first time.)

Sausage Gravy

Ingredients

• 1 lb sausage
• ½ cup butter
• ½ cup flour
• 4 cups milk

Directions

1. Cook the sausage then set the meat aside.
2. Melt butter in the pan with any liquid from the sausage.
3. Sprinkle flour into the butter/fat mixture a little at a time and stir incorporate it using a spatula with holes to prevent any lumps.
4. Pour in milk until it is a little runnier than you’d want the gravy and mix well.
5. Add the sausage and simmer until you get the consistency you want.