Comments on: Chocolate Gravy and Biscuits

By: Stephanie McMullen

Stephanie McMullen — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:21:38 +0000

I was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, but all of my family is from the Louisville area of Kentucky. My Grandmother used to make this as a dessert. She would use biscuits from the night before and break them up to use for dessert. I would come home from school and see her making it, and would want to dive in right away. My husband thinks that my Mom and I are crazy for eating concoctions like this. Thought it was some family recipe that Grandma came up with.

By: Donna Sue

Donna Sue — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:28:11 +0000

All the stories just made my day. My mom (born in Arkansas) made it when we were growing up. She died when we were young. My sister (Linda Diane) and cousin (Karen Ella) makes it but I’ve never had theirs. I can’t wait to try my hand at it. Your stories brought me back to my youth. Linda and Karen this one’s for you!

By: Tom P

Tom P — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:29:33 +0000

It’s amazing how many people turn their noses up…..until they try it! My parents and grandparents were all from the same part of Arkansas. My grandmother on my fathers side made it for special occasions. On my mothers side, they had never heard of it. I have been working on the recipe for 30 years and think it’s pretty good, but never as good as Mom and Granny made it. If I may say so, I think it’s the memories of those special occasions where family gets together that make it taste so good. When I want to get the family together all I have to do is say “chocolate gravy and biscuits on Sunday morning” and I know they’ll be here.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:20:22 +0000

I grew up in Mo. and also was raised eating chocolate gravy and biscuits. My mother was born in Arkansas, and her mother made it for her brothers and sisters. My grandma made it from scratch, but my mother made it for us using a pudding mix fresh off the oven. This is the way I make it today! Just cook regular chocolate pudding until it comes to a boil and thickens, then pour it over your biscuits of choice! Wow, just like grandma’s!!!

By: mike massey

mike massey — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:58:32 +0000

My family also growed up having chocolate gravy and biscuits for breakfast. I am from north central Kentucky and i thought (still do) that was the best breakfast ever. My mother would make it nearly every weekend we would chow down then go milk the cows, what memories.

By: BeauEvil

BeauEvil — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:45:42 +0000

This food seems to be very specific, perhaps even to particular families. My wife and I are from North Central Alabama, from adjacent counties. (Her county being more “hillbilly”.) Her entire family (on her mom’s side) made chocolate gravy for breakfast.

I found no one in my county who had ever even heard of it. I found that not everyone in her county knows of it either. Because part of that family is olive-skinned and dark-eyed, I was working on a theory of an unrecognized Mexican heritage. (I understand that Mexican’s eat this.)

Now, because of the references here to North Alabama, North Georgia, Savannah, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Middle Tennessee, and North Carolina, it appears to be a narrow swath approximating the path of Scots-Irish and rohtic speech (heavy “r”), except for Savannah.

I looked here because of her term, “chocolate gravy”. I think that the name puts people off because you are used to gravy being made from lard or oil, not butter.

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:51:26 +0000

I am from North GA and Chocolate Gravy and Biscuits was our special Christmas morning breakfast. My mother would also make it for us on special occasions ( or if we begged enough). None of my friends had ever heard of it, even the ones that were raised in my area, but my mother was originally from North AL, so I guess her family picked it up there. I was shocked when my husband told me that his Aunt always made it on Christmas as well, but hers is never as good as my mothers:) I do not have a “recipe” since my mother never measures anything, but over the years I have almost repilcated hers and here is how I do it.

1 stick butter
1-1/4 c. sugar
4 tbls. cocoa powder
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. flour
1/2 cup milk.

Melt butter in med saucepan over med heat. Add cocoa and flour and stir until all lumps are gone. Add sugar, vanilla, and milk and cook, stirring, until it bubbles up. If it is too thick add more milk. Serve over hot, split buttermilk biscuits.

By: cindy

cindy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:51:18 +0000

Anyone that has never had it, always tells me it sounds gross and cant imagine choclate gravy for breakfast. I simply tell them they have no clue what they are missing. I had never had it until i married a guy from AR.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:49:31 +0000

Much like others I have read about, my family from NE Okla. would have it at Breakfast while visiting from CA. It was a highlight of our vacations as a kid. My grandmother taught my mother and some of my aunts to make it but the only one that can truly make it like my granny is my wife. She won’t make it to often because it might lose it’s mystic. So here I sit trying to find a recipe to try and make it on my own. help. I remember hers was made with oil, butter, sugar and cocoa, does this ring true to anybody else?

By: Jim Curry

Jim Curry — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:24:26 +0000

My Aunts and GrandMother would make it every moring as is the case with those who know what it is also know’s it’s at it’s best with the butter milk cow head type biscuits lolol and if your in Middle Tenn you would have ripped your biscuit in half and pulled it down though that morning chocolate when you biscuit was done you pulled it over you egg’s no matter how they where cooked then dip you links or bacon into it. Thats just how we did it in middle Tenn.