Last Updated on June 29, 2022 by Rebecca Huff

Making Southern style gravy and tea towel biscuits today in honor of Father's Day! My husband loves gravy and biscuits but I doubt if I even make it once a year anymore! I still wanted to make sure all my kids know how good homemade is, and how to make it themselves.

I grew up watching my Pa make Gravy and Biscuits. If I ever touched his iron skillets I'd be in big trouble. Now that I'm a mom of six children, I am protective of my well seasoned skillets too!  My dad kept his near the stove and he always sat on a little stool in front of the stove to stir the gravy. He made it an event. He also made old fashioned fudge; the kind you had to stir and stir in the skillet. Not the easy peasy  kind people where put chocolate chips in the microwave! He used real cocoa and butter and milk… but we're talking about GRAVY! So pardon me for strolling down memory lane. My Pa has been gone for six years now and I miss him!

Make the biscuits first, while they are cooking you can whip up the gravy! To download the PDF click here. Scroll down to the bottom to watch my 17 year old daughter make this recipe.

Tea Towel Biscuits

• 3 cups self-rising flour
• ½ cup shortening or real butter
• 1 1/4 cup milk or buttermilk

1. Put 3 cups self rising flour into a bowl, best if you sift it first.
2. Shred butter into flour until pea sized crumbles form
3. Add 1 1/4 cups whole milk, butter milk, or even plain yogurt. If the dough really dry you can add a little more milk.
4. Stir with a fork just until combined, but don't overstir.
5. Lay out your Tea Towel and add a dusting of flour.
6. Now put the dough in the center of the towel.
7. Next, fold the towel over the dough and knead, checking to make sure it doesn't stick too much to the towel, but if it does, just add another dusting of flour.
8. Continue folding until it is a nice ball of dough, not too tough, not too soft…just right!
9. Pat out into a circle, you want it about 1/2 an inch thick
10. Use your biscuit cutter or a glass to cut out the biscuits, or just make square biscuits with a knife or pizza cutter.
11. Place the biscuits on a buttered pan, skillet or pan with parchment paper
12. Bake at 450° for about 10 minutes or until just a light golden brown.

Gravy

• 5 Tablespoons Pork Lard (sausage or bacon grease)
• 4 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2-2 1/2 cups whole milk
• Salt and Freshly ground black pepper to taste

1. Heat grease in skillet over medium heat
2. Add flour, whisk
3. Add salt and pepper to taste, I use about 1/2 teaspoon salt and 8-10 cracks of pepper
4. Whisk until the flour begins to brown
5. Add the milk little by little
6. Reduce heat to medium low
7. Simmer, stirring constantly
8. The gravy is ready when your spoon or whisk leaves tracks in the gravy

Pour the gravy over the biscuits! Yum!

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Happy Father's Day!

Gravy and Tea Towel Biscuits

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Ingredients

  

Tea Towel Biscuits

• 3 cups self-rising flour
• ½ cup shortening or real butter
• 1 1/4 cup milk or buttermilk

Gravy

• 5 Tablespoons Pork Lard sausage or bacon grease
• 4 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2-2 1/2 cups whole milk
• Salt and Freshly ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

 

Tea Towel Biscuits

• Put 3 cups self rising flour into a bowl, best if you sift it first.
• Shred butter into flour until pea sized crumbles form
• Add 1 1/4 cups whole milk, butter milk, or even plain yogurt. If the dough really dry you can add a little more milk.
• Stir with a fork just until combined, but don't overstir.
• Lay out your Tea Towel and add a dusting of flour.
• Now put the dough in the center of the towel.
• Next, fold the towel over the dough and knead, checking to make sure it doesn't stick too much to the towel, but if it does, just add another dusting of flour.
• Continue folding until it is a nice ball of dough, not too tough, not too soft…just right!
• Pat out into a circle, you want it about 1/2 an inch thick
• Use your biscuit cutter or a glass to cut out the biscuits, or just make square biscuits with a knife or pizza cutter.
• Place the biscuits on a buttered pan, skillet or pan with parchment paper
• Bake at 450° for about 10 minutes or until just a light golden brown.

Gravy

• Heat grease in skillet over medium heat
• Add flour, whisk
• Add salt and pepper to taste, I use about 1/2 teaspoon salt and 8-10 cracks of pepper
• Whisk until the flour begins to brown
• Add the milk little by little
• Reduce heat to medium low
• Simmer, stirring constantly
• The gravy is ready when your spoon or whisk leaves tracks in the gravy
• Pour the gravy over the biscuits! Yum!

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