How to make the PERFECT brown gravy from BACON grease (Country gravy)

In the video you will hear my mom making the gravy that her mom taught her to make. This is going back near 60 years worth of knowledge. Good ol Kentucky Gravy!!

To start you will need the grease from bacon that you have already cooked up.
Then to start the gravy you will need a couple spoonful's to melt and get good and hot, then start adding your flour until the gravy gets to the thickness and brownness you desire...the most critical part is the first step making sure the "paste" doesn't lump and or burn. Once you have the brownness and consistency just add the desired 95%milk+ 5%water to the mix and keep stirring until the gravy thickens up and then transfer to separate bowl. I hope your gravy comes out as good as this one...bc believe me IT WAS AMAZING. I apologize that the video cuts off.. Back then my cell phone only recorded so long then it stopped the video. #granny #cooking #gravyrecipes #gravy #learntocook #cookingchannel #cookingvideo #cookingtips #cookingvideos #kitchentips #kitchen #kitchenutensils #foodie , #HomeCooking, #cookingtips #recipeoftheday #easyrecipes #healthyeating , #cookingchannel , #BrownGravy, #CountryGravy , #cookingfromscratch , #learntocook , #cookingclass , #cookingwithkids , #cookingisfun #foodies

[pugsyblack]

For anyone watching, use 4 tablespoons bacon grease, 5 tablespoons of flour. When it gets brown add 2 cups of milk. For people like me who like measurements. Feel free to double or triple the recipe

[justinehyre]

7:37 My mother taught me how to make gravy. I have never measured but have seen equal parts grease and flour.
The secret she taught me was when adding water or milk it must be cold!!
Never add hot liquid!! And to keep ut from being lumpy, add the liquid a little at a time, incorporating as you go and making sure there are no lumps at each stage. Taught one of my younger sisters how to make gravy just like mom taught me!!
My irish grandmother made the best brown gravy ever.

[Squee_Dow]

My Kentucky daddy made delicious gravy. As a newlywed, I made biscuits and gravy for our first breakfast after returning from our honeymoon. I wasn't very successful. :/ My husband was very sweet and ate his breakfast as if it were excellent fare, but the truth was that the gravy was clumpy thick. We had a good laugh when he said that he didn't know whether to pour the gravy over the biscuits or the biscuits over the gravy :D I honed my gravy skills over the years.

Toward the end of Daddy's life, I was his caregiver and cooked all his meals. I was so intimidated to make gravy for him, but somehow I always managed to make a decent batch of gravy. He liked my cooking, so that's all that mattered. I miss my Kentucky daddy.

[WaterburnerActual]

Thank y'all for makin Real Gravy. I'm over 60 now and watchin ya make this is the same way my Mom & Step Mom made it. On the weekends, all 8 of us kids would be at Nana's for biscuits & Nana's Burnt Flour Gravy. We knew it wasn't burnt, and being young we hadn't quite grasped the number of batches she'd made to get it down to perfection.
There's a big difference in Cowboy Puddin and Real Gravy.
Thanks again for makin Real Gravy!

[karma]

Guys there are many styles of gravy each pairing while with a specific food. Don't hate just cause it's not what you're used too.

[wjrasmussen]

Growing up in the midwest in the 60s/70s, everyone had their jar of bacon/sausage drippings. It was so good. I have to start doing this again.

[SiothaVest]

Lady, I've been looking for this recipe for years. Thank you for this. My grandmother made this & my aunts try but no one gets it brown.

[Jenni-twyi]

I don’t care what ppl in the comments say, this is exactly how it’s done. I live in NC and my mom and grandma did it the same way and thats how I do it. Letting the roux brown develops more flavor.

[smeutr]

“How much milk is that?”
“I don’t know”
That’s the best way to cook, eye ball everything lol

[lord]

Nothing like good ole' grease and flour gravy! Once you learn the basic method, it is very versatile.

[donnaduke]

I have never seen anyone take this long to make gravy.

[massey-rnmq]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video, I cooked gravy for the first time today after watching this, mine had a somewhat flour taste til I threw enuf salt and pepper in it to make it right. Plus I said a prayer before I started and That’s always helps,

[dispatcher]

When I was a child in Mississippi, we used bacon grease and added flour and cooked it until it was a medium dark brown... Then we put cold water in it until it was just right... it is still the way I make it today... When it is brown, it has a nutty smell to it... So good...

[HB]

I looked on here for a refresher cause couldn't remember how was made. As I watched this is Exactly how all my family from Kentucky has showed me how to make it, except with iron skillet. It's the Best Gravy Ever. So all you Haters stop hating and shut up and try it.

[donnyray]

As I was watching this, the childhood memories of sitting at the counter watching my grandmother make breakfast every sunday morning came flooding back.  I actually had to stop the video.  Without watching the rest, I went and made the closest thing to grammas gravy I've had since grampa passed.  Thanks to the "mom" for knocking that memory file loose.  I think it was her slight southern accent? =]=]=]

[elewis]

My Mom would make cube steak and on the side biscuits & grease gravy. I've been looking to try to create what I remember it looked like and welcome comments back. Mom's was much more clear and runny. I've watched other videos where they use coffee but I'm sure I remember her making it kind of like you showed. Can you make this where it is more clear and much thinner. I loved cutting a homemade biscuit in half and pouring this over it, hated the cube steak as it was always tough & stringy. Any advice from anyone, I know she used grease as we always had the collection tin next to the stove.

[JB-hnqw]

Browning changes the flavor, that's a fact, in New Orleans they make it like chocolate brown, and the taste is nutty and toasty

[CraftQueen]

My daddy is from KY & my mom's parents are from KY also. We always use water instead of milk. The bacon grease gives it a great flavor! I prefer the bacon gravy over the sausage gravy.

[tammystephanie]

God bless you for posting this. I now have a wonderful memory of my west Virginia mom every time I make it. My mom used to make something called flitters, do you happen to know how to make those? It's kinda like a fried bread.

[BarbieCatt]

This is how my grama from Alabama makes her gravy- it's AWESOME !