Biscuits and Gravy

Okay, this recipe is to die for, I just made these this morning and they were superb!  I got it from sugar spun run, and she demonstrates with a video how to make these, so watch her first, go here


Biscuits and Gravy
Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 Tblsp baking powder
1 Tblsp granulated sugar (I added 1 1/2 Tblsp)
1 tsp salt
6 Tblsp butter (she uses unsalted, I used salted)
3/4 cup whole milk

Instructions

• For best results, chill your butter in the freezer for 10-20 minutes before beginning this recipe. It's ideal that the butter is very cold for light, flaky, buttery biscuits.
• Preheat oven to 425F and line a cookie sheet with nonstick parchment paper. Set aside.
• Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a large bowl and mix well. Set aside.
• Remove your butter from the refrigerator and either cut it into your flour mixture using a pastry cutter or (preferred) use a box grater to shred the butter into small pieces and then add to the flour mixture and stir.
• • Cut the butter or combine the grated butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
  • Add milk, use a wooden spoon or spatula to stir until combined (don't over-work the dough).
  • Transfer your biscuit dough to a well-floured surface and use your hands to gently work the dough together. If the dough is too sticky, add flour until it is manageable. 
  • Once the dough is cohesive, fold in half over itself and use your hands to gently flatten layers together. Rotate the dough 90 degrees and fold in half again, repeating this step 5-6 times but taking care to not overwork the dough.
  • Use your hands (do not use a rolling pin) to flatten the dough to 1" thick and lightly dust a 2 3/4" round biscuit cutter with flour. 
  • Making close cuts, press the biscuit cutter straight down into the dough and drop the biscuit onto your prepared baking sheet.
  • Repeat until you have gotten as many biscuits as possible and place less than 1/2" apart on baking sheet. 
  • Once you have gotten as many biscuits as possible out of the dough, gently re-work the dough to get out another biscuit or two until you have at least 6 biscuits.
  • Bake on 425F for 12 minutes or until tops are beginning to just turn lightly golden brown.
  (I copy and pasted from her site so the numbers to do steps are wonky, ignore, just watch her video and follow her steps.  Mine made 8 biscuits which were fantabulous!!)

for the gravy I looked online and followed the recipe from here:

very simple to make:

INGREDIENTS

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1 cup milk plus 1-2 optional tablespoons (depending on your preference of thicker or thinner gravy)
• salt
• pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

• In small saucepan, melt butter.
• Once butter is melted, add the flour and whisk. It will look like the consistency of wet sand.
• Slowly add the milk, and whisk to incorporate. Whisk until smooth.
• Gravy will thicken, add in the additional milk if you want a thinner gravy.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.

I buy precooked sausages that you just have to microwave and I cook those and cut them into the gravy or you can just serve alongside the biscuits.

so yummy