One of my favorite stories I heard: A woman was preparing a roast for the oven. She cut one chunk of meat off the end, making it flat on one end. Someone asked her why she did that and she said it was how her mother did it. It got her wondering why, so she called her mother to ask. She laughed at her daughter and told her it’s because her baking pan was so small, she had to cut the ends off to make it fit the pan! That story exemplifies how much of an impact our family has on us. 😀😀😀
@@aprilrain4296 I believe it's one of the My Life in Appalachia ones-maybe one of the first few. Let me know if you don't find it and I'll go back through them 😀
Yes! My grandmother made biscuits with cream! Two ingredient biscuits and everybody loved them and nobody could make them but by 8 years old I could make her biscuits! She died when I was ten but she's been with me my whole life! :-)
My great grandmother taught me to cook her version of biscuits and bacon gravy in 1976 at her little house in North Georgia. I can still see what she was wearing that day and I remember exactly how she put it all together. I still do it that way and raised my boys on it, and taught my wife’s family in the Philippines how to cook it on one of our visits. I know exactly what you mean about her being there with you! I read your comment and cried. But I also smiled and looked up. She’s always with me. I can’t wait to see her again. God bless you and thanks for sharing. 👍🏻🙏🏻❤️🇺🇸
I saw this recipe last night, and woke up this morning and made them. I've struggled making biscuits, I'm a good cook, but good biscuits have plum evaded me. This recipe was quick, it didn't make a mess of the kitchen and they were delicious. Hands down will be my go to biscuit recipe. My granny wasn't much of a cook, but she was a lovely woman and did teach me how to play poker. Lol. Merry Christmas
I grew up with chocolate gravy. Still make it every now and then. I do this: Melt 3/4 stick of butter in a pan. Add 3 Tbs flour and brown for a couple of minutes. Add 2 cups milk. Give it a stir, and then . . . Mix well 3 Tbs cocoa into 1 cup of sugar. Add this mixture to the pan and stir in. Bring it to a boil over low heat and it should thicken right up. If it starts to get too thick, add a bit of water. Serve over hot biscuits with butter. (Mixing the cocoa with the sugar keeps the cocoa powder from making floaters. You're welcome.)
This is the way I was taught to make chocolate gravy too. My grandma taught me to make this about 55 yrs ago, as I'm 67 now. It's held up thru the "test of time" 🤗
@@gordangraham I've never used solid chocolate in my cooking so I can't give you a good answer. I think you would have to bring the milk up to temperature very slowly in order to give the chocolate time to melt before the thickening takes place. Worth a try, I think!
We’re from the foothills just east of Charlotte and my mawmaw only made chocolate gravy and biscuits when it was snowing. When I saw your video title it made me cry. Thank you so much for reminding me that it’s ok to be proud of your heritage 💓
I am from Oklahoma but I am Cherokee Indian and I have a feeling my ancestors brought with them a lot of Appalachia traditions and recipes. My Nanny passed down a lot of these same recipes to me. Chocolate gravy was our favorite my nanny made. We usually got them on Thanksgiving morning and Christmas morning. If was quick fast and in a hurry so that they could get started on our Holiday meal. Oh the memories…. My nanny only used cocoa, butter, sugar and milk no flour. God bless from Texas.
The older I get, the more I go back to that accent of my childhood. My grand kids get a kick out of it. I want to remind them of the people there from💯
I was a caregiver for an elderly couple and they both were born and raised in the mountains. Along with chocolate gravy, she also taught me how to make apple gravy and tomato gravy. Those were usually always served on biscuits or cornbread. She also was so kind to teach me how to make chow chow and shared a ton of stories with me.
My aunt moved from Arkansas to California in the 40's and took a job as an house keeper for a wealthy family. She started making chocolate gravy for the two kids the mother found out and told her not to make that for her kids. She said chocolate gravy was eaten by Poor people and they were not poor. The kids begged her to make it so she did from time to to.
Our momma would make chocolate gravy and her delicious homemade biscuits when it was cold outside. We would have her biscuits pretty much every day with of course gravy but chocolate gravy was a special treat. R.I.P. Mom. Until we meet in Heaven. xxxooo
My Mom said that her Mother used to make chocolate gravy and that everyone loved it! (Mom came from a family of 10 children.) My Mom never made it--said she didn't know how "Mother" made it. I have always thought it was odd how far away from how her parents did things my Mom went. She got married in the late 50's and I think it was the fashion to 'leave the farm' , go to town, and do things the easy way. I have looped back around to my Grandparents' ways--all 4 of them were country people and farmers to different degrees. My Mom's Mother used herbal medicine (almost exclusively) to treat her family's illnesses and I have a great interest in that, too.....so much so that I studied to become a clinical herbalist. (She still knew more than me because experience is the best teacher.) Your chocolate gravy looks and sound delicious and you are right---those Grandmothers were brilliant in how they figured to stretch the food rations! God bless!
I love it. When you started to spoon the graveyard on to the biscuit I teased up. Overwhelming memories of my momma. Us kids loved our chocolate gravy. I am 77 years old and i still mis my momma and that gravy. Thank you
I'm stuck watching these videos after I've left my state. I never had chocolate gravy, but I think my family did things a little bit more Cajun. There is this sense of home when I hear you talk though, and I've never appreciated it until watching stuff like this, sharing recipes with your neighbors, talking about what you do to your dishes. It wasn't until some of my family members passed away I really wanted it back, everybody has their own little twist on things, I come back home and my brother is cooking up something crazy every time. It never disappoints. As a mid 20s guy, these are really wholesome and nostalgic videos, and I hope you continue with this. It sounds like home and family that has passed away to me.
I could listen to you talk for the rest of my life. I swear the more you talk the more I want you keep talking. There aren't a lot of people I've ever thought that about. Thanks for the wonderful videos!
Had tomato gravy for the first time several months before my Momma past away and I asked her why she never made it and she smiled real big and said son it always reminded me of just how poor we were growing up and at times that's all we had to eat for day's. Funny how something we enjoy today is something that kept our Families alive through the toughest times.
I love gravy over sliced tomatoes, My boss was riding with me one time to his other terminal in Del Rio. We stopped at a little restaurant between Austin and San Antonio for breakfast. He was from Mississippi and when I ordered sliced tomatoes and gravy, he'd never heard of eating tomatoes that way.
There’s more to what you’re doing than just recipes. I feel like I’m home when you and your family are cooking and sharing stories. I’m so glad I found this channel. The world is a big mess right now, but families can still get together and enjoy the simple things in life. I suppose in a way, God used our grandparents to prep us for these uncertain times in many ways. We don’t just cook in the kitchen, we pray, we laugh, we cry, and sometimes we might raise our voice. We prepare our meals there and bond as a family. I like the kitchen much better than the room with the TV. Thanks and God bless.
All my life I thought my mom just made this recipe up. I never knew other people ate this. Growing up my friends would spend the night and my mom would make this for breakfast and my friends just loved this!! I believe we were the only family in town that made this.
I grew up on a farm in Middle TN. When my Mom or Grandma would make a cake, they would never put icing on it, and called it a Puddin, pronounced ‘pood-en’, but always made chocolate gravy to go over it. They used evaporated milk/water to make it and always in a black skillet. If we ever asked for chocolate icing, they would make it in the black skillet almost the same way but using butter. Then after it boiled several minutes, would take it off the heat and beat it until it was thick enough to spread over the cake. Would take forever bc you had to beat it until it cooled down. Hand/arm exhausted! Tasted like fudge- so rich! If she had any left over we would fight over what was left in the skillet and she would leave extra bc we loved eating it on saltine crackers. I have so many memories of my Mom sitting on our back porch where it was cooler, beating that icing in the black skillet. My other grandmother made a sweet white gravy to eat over cakes, but I unfortunately never got that recipe. Prob the same except without cocoa, but wish I knew!
Oh Lordie, I hadn't thought of that in years, I loved that cake with chocolate poured over it. My aunt could make the best moist chocolaty chocolate cake, but she put chocolate icing on it, still makes my mouth water.
I ❤️ your way. The old way when you listen to the older one's. When they knew how to do... Everybody may not know the old ways. My Grans used to say we were "Smart" if you were young and do the old way.🥰
We occasionally had chocolate gravy when I was growing up, but we had "creamed tomatoes over biscuits" all the time. I believe some people call it Tomato Gravy. My parents always raised a huge garden and "put up" hundreds and hundreds of pints and quarts of garden foods each summer and fall. Canned tomatoes were always plentiful, making creamed tomatoes over biscuits a very cheap meal for our family. It's still one of my three favorite comfort foods, but my wife refuses to eat it. Any time she's gone for the day, I make it for my meal. It just tastes like home. Oh ,and by the way, I also break up my biscuits rather than cutting them open.
@@heirofdisa, I'd be thrilled to share with you how my mom and dad, and now I, make Creamed Tomatoes on Biscuits. Here are the directions: I quart crushed tomatoes (32 oz.) 2 - 3 Tablespoons sugar 5 shakes of a salt shaker and 5 pepper 2 Tablespoons butter 1/4 cup water 2 Tablespoons cornstarch Start baking your biscuits. When you get your biscuits in the oven, start the tomatoes. In a small bowl, stir together the water and cornstarch; set aside. In a medium saucepan, combine the tomatoes, sugar, salt, pepper, and butter. Over medium heat, bring the tomato mixture to a boil. As soon as it comes to a boil, stir in the cornstarch and water slurry. Boil one minute more and remove from the heat. Break up a couple of baked biscuits in a serving bowl, spoon tomatoes over the biscuits, and top with a pat (or two) of butter. Enjoy!
@@heirofdisa, you are so welcome. If you want more of my recipes, check out my Facebook recipe page called, "Come Sit At My Table". I'm just an old country cook, but hopefully you'll like some more of my family's recipes.
My family is from Arkansas I have a recipe for chocolate gravy, that has been passed down at least 4 generations. Ours is close we use milk then add butter and vanilla before serving. Vanilla is a newer addition. I think, the food ways of an area are affected by the origins and the heritage of its inhabitants Many families in the south have family recipes for chocolate gravy. Also, like you mentioned some are horrified by the notion. I think, it is regional but intertwined with heritage. Every family has a different recipe and so much of that knowledge is lost, as it was never written down.
I grew up in Vance County NC. I have enjoyed watching you since it brings back memories. I’ve been in south central PA since 98 now and miss so many things about the south. The chocolate gravy is a new thing for me but the biscuits make my heart glow.
I grew up in Southern WV and my Grandmother made it for us when we would spend the night at her house. She served it in a bowl. We would dip a piece of toast in it and eat it with our fingers. She made the toast in the oven under the broiler with four dabs of butter. Simply delicious!!
I remember visiting the holler as a child and after playing all day we'd come in and beg for food. My mother would tell us to go back out to play, but Aunt Benny would say, "Oh Rosie, them kids is hungry!" And suddenly there would be biscuits and chocolate gravy. In my memory it was the most delicious thing I'd ever eaten. I'm afraid to eat it as an adult because it's such a perfect memory that I don't dare touch it. Aunt Benny has been gone for years now. Thank you for bringing her back to me today.
Oh my gosh, I can't believe that you showed how to make chocolate gravy. My mother made chocolate gravy when we were kids. And it was always with biscuits and butter. It is one of my favorite memories of those years. My mom used can milk and water or milk if there was enough in the house for the gravy. Her biscuits were legend in our family, but unfortunately I don't remember what all she used. Thank you so much for the wonderful memories.
I grew up eating this chocolate gravy, made with water & biscuits and we always loved it. I've also made this for my children & grandchildren for over 50 years. My grandmother also made it, we're in Alabama so chocolate gravy has been a delight here for many years! ❤️
Gravy of any flavor has always been my weakness. Chocolate would rank as "comfort food" around here and made only during times when the families gathered during holidays. Dark bacon gravy over scrambled eggs and biscuits is still my favorite meal.
Such great memories of my granny and mom making chocolate gravy. And I always made it for my sons and now have taught my sons’ wives to cook it. I told the girls that if they add milk that makes pudding-not gravy! LOL! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ My granny was from Tennessee and PaPa was from N. Carolina. All their kids grew up in Texas. Blessings from the ❤️ of Texas!
I have heard of several different types of gravy but never chocolate gravy - it looks wonderful. Thank you for sharing your amazing stories, too. Hearing about different ways of life, the past, it makes one realize not only everything we currently take for granted, but also how far we have strayed from some of those ways of life that really should still be just as important today as they were back then - a sense of community, growing and preserving food, and a sense of responsibility to pass down knowledge.
I'm in love. It ain't just your cooking. Your voice, your skin, your eyes, your hair, your "accent" and more that I won't mention. I've watched three of your videos and I find I cook VERY much like you do. Didn't grow up in these mountains, but have been here over half my life and I'm 73-almost. You're quite a bit younger (not to mention married) so I'm not in pursuit. And I was crushed when I found out I didn't invent the biscuit with chocolate (I call it sauce) gravy many years ago. I got the same reaction from many the way your husband reacted--"Eww."
My husband's family is from Overton County, TN. We started dating as teenagers. I had never been south of Ohio (from Michigan), so when I was invited to take a trip with his family "down home," my world opened up!!! Mountains, Southern hospitality, and the FOOD! He kept telling me about the breakfast Aunt Trudy always made, which includes chocolate and biscuits. What??? But, boy that first bite was like heaven, and i was hooked! Scrambled eggs, country ham, red eye gravy, chocolate gravy, tomatoes. Oh my.❤
Oh thank you, Tipper! This was my Aunt Bubba's biscuit recipe that she taught me but I somehow forgot. Last time I tried to make biscuits they weren't even fit for the dogs! Just made this recipe and it's as easy and delicious as I remember. My aunt would also sometimes fry a big single biscuit in a cast iron skilet and called that Hoecake. Delicious
When I was staying with my daughters father, he had an aunt named, Aunt Coot. She made what we call Sopping Cocoa. Thats the name we call chocolate gravy. Ive never heard anyone call it chocolate gravy before, but thats exactly what it is. We lived in small little place called Mill Creek in NC. Everyone there is either related to each other or close to the family. She would make it for breakfast and its too die for! You could put it on pretty much any of your breakfast food. Its been a long time since Ive had it and got so excited to see this video for your recipe :):) Thank You for sharing it!
Thanks, you took me home with this video. I just turn 66 years old and I sure can remember Sunday morning as a kid ,.My mother is from south Alabama and she would make chocolate gravy , biscuits and ham as a special treat. I can she her smiling now. Thanks for reminding me of those great memories!
Love listening to all your history and stories of Appalachia, I had never heard of chocolate gravy either, but then I’m an expat Australia. I’m going to try this for my Californian husband, he loves Southern cooking.
My husband's Aunt Altha made chocolate gravy and biscuits but most of us loved our chocolate gravy on fried potatoes. ..I know I thought yuk the first time I heard it but boy I changed my mind it's so so good. She made it like a thin pudding. She's been gone a long time now but I still make it sometimes but I sure do miss her.
I am from southern Arkansas and my grandma made chocolate gravy on special occasions for breakfast most of the time it was sawmill gravy or red eye gravy or sausage gravy. She also did not cut out her biscuits she hand rolled them. I learned at a early age how to cook by watching her.
@@bcaye She pinched off a piece of dough and rolled it between her hands to form a ball then put it in her pan and patted it down a little. Google hand rolled biscuits
@@markhurst3180, okay, I get you. If there's a small piece of dough left over I do that. I like the crisp edges of cut biscuits, though. They get more flaky as well imo. From MO.
Yup my NC gma patted them too, grabbed a ball and patted it out I still prefer those over rolled She had a biscuit tray she made them in. Used it 2x a day usually 10 kids 😄
Chocolate gravy and butter biscuits was such a treat when we visited my great grandmother in Murphy, Nc.! We always did a sweet and savory biscuits half . So awesome to hear these traditions being carried on. We are native georgians now . We are loyal white Lily fans too. Thank you for lovely video. !
My mammaw made biscuits and chocolate gravy and I never realized it was an Appalachian thing but it makes sense since she was born and bred in western NC. Thank you for bringing a sweet memory back ☺️
I just discovered your channel and I LOVE it. I've recently moved to Kentucky from Long Island, NY to be with my huge family here. So much that you talk about rings a bell to me that I tear up sometimes and I'm a 54 year old grown man. It just brings back so many memories of time with my grandmothers (Mammal) and things they made and did. Unfortunately I didn't get to know my Grandfather's, they both passed right after I was born. Thank you for what you do. God Bless you and your family,
Us country folk here in NW Alabama was raised on chocolate gravy and biscuits and grits for breakfast, and still part of my breakfast menu on a regular basis now that I am 54!
We have eaten what we call Chocolate Syrup & Biscuits for generations in our North Texas family. Ours is different, it's syrup not gravy. Recipe = twice as much sugar as water and then add cocoa, boil till coats a spoon. (1 cup sugar, 1/2 water, 1 or 2 T cocoa. Bring to a boil till it coats a spoon/is desired syrup thickness). Serve over buttered hot biscuits. Granny generally doubled or tripled that amount and my mom always added a tablespoon of light corn syrup to stop any crystallization in cooled leftovers. Can't tell you how many generations this goes back, but I do know that my Great Great Grandmother made this. I also suspect perhaps for the same reason, to stretch what little food there was. My Grandmother said that they were so poor that many many times the evening meal would be only a bowl of water gravy, because they had no milk or had to save the milk, and they ate this without even biscuits during the roughest times. (water gravy = lard, flour and water). Like you, I have rarely ran across anyone who has heard of Chocolate Syrup & Biscuits, though we had it most every weekend growing up. I do recall my Grandmother telling me "some people make chocolate gravy", but that they made the syrup because 1. it tastes better and 2. it was cheaper and saved the flour. I have made chocolate gravy, and agree that the syrup version is better, though that may be only because it's what I grew up with. I of course made it occasionally for my kids, and now make for my grandkids at times. Also, try heating the cream for your cream biscuits, see if you like them better using warm/hot cream. I have made them both ways and agree with others that the hot cream improves the biscuit, although I make regular buttermilk biscuits with crisco like your mother's method instead of cream biscuits. (I make Cream biscuits if I am out of ingredients)
My grandmother and great-grandmother always made us chocolate and biscuits just as you describe. We just called it "chocolate" not chocolate syrup, but that's what it was.
I was raised in Monroe county TN in the Cherokee National forest and my grandmother made it like this, more syrup than gravy we put peanut butter and butter to melt in it and poured over or ate with biscuits.
I'm from Wisconsin. Family migrated from Kentucky before I was born. We have same recipe for what we call Biscuits and Chocolate. Same recipe. Tastes awesome. Love it.
Just came across your channel. Love this recipe as my Grandma who was from the upper, northwest corner of Alabama would fix this for us when we visited. I've been searching for a recipe. I believe she fixed it this way too. Thank you for sharing.
I grew up having chocolate gravy and homemade biscuits with lots of homemade butter . There’s nothing like a hot biscuit covered with chocolate gravy, with lots of melted butter, oozing down the gravy and biscuits. I loved bacon served on the side with this too lol 👍🏼❤️👍🏼
I'm originally from the foothills of the Missouri Ozarks and my grandma made it. My dad taught my wife who taught my daughter who still makes it. We still enjoy it and I'm in my 60's. Thank you for teaching the "old" ways. This was when life was better and families cared about one another. I also love how your family is so musical. What a blessing.
Chocolate gravy brings back good memories. My wife was at Womack Army Hospital and had given birth to my first son. My Army neighbor who was from Alabama had his wife fix me chocolate gravy and biscuits before I went to see her. Even though I was from the southwestern mountains of Virginia I'd never had them. They sure were good and since wonderful friends, that I miss, made them, I'm sure it made them even better. Thanks for the memories.
Never heard of chocolate gravy but it sure sounds good. I'm in awe of your biscuit recipe! I just can't wait to try them, thank you! You are an excellent cook and storyteller.
Hi Tipper!!! I'm brand new to your channel and I'm sure enjoying watching your videos. I lived in eastern TN, Gatlinburg to be exact for several years and I loved it there, but unfortunately in 2012 we had to move back home to FL. I love southern living and I esp love Appalachia. I love the food, the lifestyle and the simple way of living. TY for sharing all of your delicious food. God Bless!!
My family grew up in Hope, Arkansas and we would eat my Grandmas "Cocoa syrup " made with sugar.. corn syrup..cocoa powder...and other ingredients ...but no flour...it was more like a chocolate syrup than a gravy....poured over buttered biscuits torn into bite size pieces.
My Mama's family is from Emmet and family in Hope, Prescott, and Texarkana. Spent a lot of my life in those places. Never had chocolate gravy until I grew up and discovered it for myself. Love it! Regards to Hope for me.
It's interesting to look back on old childhood memories with new eyes. Anyway, I'm from the Shenandoah valley in VA and never heard of chocolate gravy! I'd love to try this.
Oh how I LOOVE the sound of the insects! That's one of the best parts of the Country! So many natural sounds and at times those millions of insects make combined sounds that are deafening! I still love it! It only sounds like that in Appalachia...... I'm from the Appalachia part of Ohio, although my family moved to South Florida when I was 8 years old, in 1955. Those insect sounds take me right back to Ohio... to dusk in the country and in the deep country beautiful Summer days at any time of day..... I can even feel the Summer air on my skin when I hear that sound! Thank-you for the memories!
My granny from Oklahoma she was a member of the Oklahoma Choctaw Nation, and she made us chocolate gravy over homemade biscuits and bacon.I loved it still do.
I’m a Florida girl, but married to a Kentucky boy. Thankfully, I have my MIL’s recipe for Chocolate gravy. My kids appreciate when I make it, usually for very special breakfasts, like Christmas morning or especially birthdays. Thanks for sharing your version of water gravy. I’ve made ours that way too, when money’s been tight.
My mama talked about eating chocolate gravy with her relatives in South Carolina. Also, her mama made biscuits using a big wooden bowl full of white lily flour, with a well in the middle for milk and a good layer of lard on her fingers.
I live in the foothills of North Carolina.Grew up here and mawmaw made us chocolate gravy for breakfast a lot.We thought it was the greatest thing in the world.Hot biscuits with chocolate gravy.I'm sure we ate because it was cheap to make but,to us it was special.I make it for my grandkids now and they think it is the greatest food ever.Love your programs.Reminds me of all the things we did growing up.
I am very glad you posted this video about chocolate gravy. My mother-in-law raised 5 boys on very little, being widowed at a fairly young age. I married her second oldest son. Years later, after she passed, my husband wanted me to make him some chocolate gravy. He said his mother used to make it for them every Sunday morning. Well, I had never heard of such a thing but after googling it, found a recipe, like you said, using milk, and tried it. He loved it but I'll bet you anything she made it like you showed us. I've got to try that. Also those biscuits sound interesting. I'll try those too. Thanks for your videos.
I’m from Oklahoma and growing up, chocolate gravy was a real treat. Actually, a lot of things you make I grew up eating. I don’t know my family’s history, but it makes me wonder if at some point they migrated from Appalachia.
I really like you. I love your kind and gentle energy. I'm in west TN, but we're not very different. My ancestors made their way down through Appalachia over to the west part of the state to become farmers.
I'm from Manchester Kentucky and I grew up eating chocolate gravy and biscuits. It was my favorite thing that my granny made. Thanks so much for sharing.
I love your videos! We all should live a simple life like this. It is so important. Thank you for bringing real life to UA-cam. I love the recipes and stories that you share. I’m definitely making these biscuits ❤
Thanks for sharing. Always a pleasure hearing the story behind the recipe. You bring it to life for us in such a fashion that we can visualize exactly what you were experiencing at the very moment you tasted the food.
I was raised in south GA, and I grew up eating Chocolate Gravy and biscuits! My ancestors apparently migrated from Appalachia (north GA and NC) and settled in south GA. Your channel is so cool because I'm learning so much about the origins of the things I grew up hearing and eating. Things people who aren't familiar with might seem a little weird, and are definitely hard to explain. Such as my Aunt who made my warts go away, and my Granddaddy who could cure infants from thrush, and a family friend who could talk the fire out of burns. I never really understood where all of that came from, so thank you for sharing so much!
I'm from Tennessee and still live here and my grannie who lived next door to me made chocolate gravy for us. It was always one of my favorite meals for breakfast and still is. ❤😊❤
Your channel brings back good memories of my childhood. My grandparents were from Tennessee and lived in the boothill of Missouri for years before moving to the big city of Houston in 1961. I grew up with chocolate gravy and homemade biscuits and it’s rare to find someone who knows what it is! My grandmother cooked with lard and made many of the same recipes that I see on your channel. Their cornbread recipe is similar to yours and they ate it plenty of times broken up into a glass of buttermilk! Anyway, I enjoy your channel because much of it reminds me of my grandparents and great grandparents and the recipes they used to bring family together.
Tipper, Thank you so much for explaining what Chocolate Gravy is. My mother grew up poor in Nebraska. She always make chocolate gravy and we loved it. I always thought it was my moms own creation but now I know. Her maternal grandmother was from Kentucky. When you said that it was used on those mornings when there was no meat etc for breakfast I had a Ahha moment as to why my mom served it so much. I grew up poor but I never knew that. Listening to you and your stories reminds me of sitting at my Grandmother table years ago listening to her talk about her life and instructions. I miss that so much. Thank you for what you do!
I usually always skip to the cooking part on most cooking videos but I listened to every bit of you talking and could’ve listened all day! What a treat ❤
My ex was from western North Carolina I think Haywood county and a mountain man at that he told me lots of story’s of the mountains I love them I love your stories of your heritage thank you for sharing you cook like my great grandmothers did
I'm 51 and grew up in West Tennessee eating chocolate gravy on biscuits often. Can remember my maternal grandmother making it. Oh the wonderful memories. Thanks for your vlogs.
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One of my favorite stories I heard: A woman was preparing a roast for the oven. She cut one chunk of meat off the end, making it flat on one end. Someone asked her why she did that and she said it was how her mother did it. It got her wondering why, so she called her mother to ask. She laughed at her daughter and told her it’s because her baking pan was so small, she had to cut the ends off to make it fit the pan!
That story exemplifies how much of an impact our family has on us. 😀😀😀
@@sherrimiller5258 So true!
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I watched a video of you making gravey from bacon oil, but I can't find it now. Can you help?
@@aprilrain4296 I believe it's one of the My Life in Appalachia ones-maybe one of the first few. Let me know if you don't find it and I'll go back through them 😀
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Yup, part 1. Thanks!! Maybe you can do a video about what you make ur chicken feed with next porfavor? 😁
You're an excellent storyteller.
I agree.
She is. She calms my nerves.
Yes! My grandmother made biscuits with cream! Two ingredient biscuits and everybody loved them and nobody could make them but by 8 years old I could make her biscuits! She died when I was ten but she's been with me my whole life! :-)
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My great grandmother taught me to cook her version of biscuits and bacon gravy in 1976 at her little house in North Georgia. I can still see what she was wearing that day and I remember exactly how she put it all together. I still do it that way and raised my boys on it, and taught my wife’s family in the Philippines how to cook it on one of our visits. I know exactly what you mean about her being there with you! I read your comment and cried. But I also smiled and looked up. She’s always with me. I can’t wait to see her again. God bless you and thanks for sharing. 👍🏻🙏🏻❤️🇺🇸
I saw this recipe last night, and woke up this morning and made them. I've struggled making biscuits, I'm a good cook, but good biscuits have plum evaded me. This recipe was quick, it didn't make a mess of the kitchen and they were delicious. Hands down will be my go to biscuit recipe. My granny wasn't much of a cook, but she was a lovely woman and did teach me how to play poker. Lol. Merry Christmas
@@billwhite7099 Merry Christmas!
@@CC-te5zf Merry Christmas
I grew up with chocolate gravy. Still make it every now and then. I do this: Melt 3/4 stick of butter in a pan. Add 3 Tbs flour and brown for a couple of minutes. Add 2 cups milk. Give it a stir, and then . . . Mix well 3 Tbs cocoa into 1 cup of sugar. Add this mixture to the pan and stir in. Bring it to a boil over low heat and it should thicken right up. If it starts to get too thick, add a bit of water. Serve over hot biscuits with butter. (Mixing the cocoa with the sugar keeps the cocoa powder from making floaters. You're welcome.)
Thanks! 😂
This is the way I was taught to make chocolate gravy too. My grandma taught me to make this about 55 yrs ago, as I'm 67 now. It's held up thru the "test of time" 🤗
This was my dad's recipe
Can you use the chocolate pieces instead of powder?
@@gordangraham I've never used solid chocolate in my cooking so I can't give you a good answer. I think you would have to bring the milk up to temperature very slowly in order to give the chocolate time to melt before the thickening takes place. Worth a try, I think!
We’re from the foothills just east of Charlotte and my mawmaw only made chocolate gravy and biscuits when it was snowing. When I saw your video title it made me cry. Thank you so much for reminding me that it’s ok to be proud of your heritage 💓
Me too, family from Tennessee
I am from Oklahoma but I am Cherokee Indian and I have a feeling my ancestors brought with them a lot of Appalachia traditions and recipes. My Nanny passed down a lot of these same recipes to me. Chocolate gravy was our favorite my nanny made. We usually got them on Thanksgiving morning and Christmas morning. If was quick fast and in a hurry so that they could get started on our Holiday meal. Oh the memories…. My nanny only used cocoa, butter, sugar and milk no flour. God bless from Texas.
You have such a beautiful voice, I could listen to you telling stories for hours.
Also, I notice you say “fuhther “ instead of “further”, the way Daddy did. Thanks so much, Tipper, for walking us back home.
The older I get, the more I go back to that accent of my childhood. My grand kids get a kick out of it. I want to remind them of the people there from💯
I was a caregiver for an elderly couple and they both were born and raised in the mountains. Along with chocolate gravy, she also taught me how to make apple gravy and tomato gravy. Those were usually always served on biscuits or cornbread. She also was so kind to teach me how to make chow chow and shared a ton of stories with me.
My aunt moved from Arkansas to California in the 40's and took a job as an house keeper for a wealthy family. She started making chocolate gravy for the two kids the mother found out and told her not to make that for her kids. She said chocolate gravy was eaten by Poor people and they were not poor. The kids begged her to make it so she did from time to to.
Thank you for sharing. It’s sad the ignorance of people. Food is Love in another form !
I’m from Arkansas and we have had chocolate gravy. It is delicious ❤️❤️❤️
Our momma would make chocolate gravy and her delicious homemade biscuits when it was cold outside. We would have her biscuits pretty much every day with of course gravy but chocolate gravy was a special treat. R.I.P. Mom. Until we meet in Heaven. xxxooo
My Mom said that her Mother used to make chocolate gravy and that everyone loved it! (Mom came from a family of 10 children.) My Mom never made it--said she didn't know how "Mother" made it. I have always thought it was odd how far away from how her parents did things my Mom went. She got married in the late 50's and I think it was the fashion to 'leave the farm' , go to town, and do things the easy way. I have looped back around to my Grandparents' ways--all 4 of them were country people and farmers to different degrees. My Mom's Mother used herbal medicine (almost exclusively) to treat her family's illnesses and I have a great interest in that, too.....so much so that I studied to become a clinical herbalist. (She still knew more than me because experience is the best teacher.) Your chocolate gravy looks and sound delicious and you are right---those Grandmothers were brilliant in how they figured to stretch the food rations! God bless!
I love it. When you started to spoon the graveyard on to the biscuit I teased up. Overwhelming memories of my momma. Us kids loved our chocolate gravy. I am 77 years old and i still mis my momma and that gravy. Thank you
This comment is so heartwarming. There is nothing like an Amazing momma ❤️
Beautiful comment.
I'm stuck watching these videos after I've left my state. I never had chocolate gravy, but I think my family did things a little bit more Cajun. There is this sense of home when I hear you talk though, and I've never appreciated it until watching stuff like this, sharing recipes with your neighbors, talking about what you do to your dishes. It wasn't until some of my family members passed away I really wanted it back, everybody has their own little twist on things, I come back home and my brother is cooking up something crazy every time. It never disappoints. As a mid 20s guy, these are really wholesome and nostalgic videos, and I hope you continue with this. It sounds like home and family that has passed away to me.
Alexander-so glad you feel a sense of home when you watch my videos!
I could listen to you talk for the rest of my life. I swear the more you talk the more I want you keep talking. There aren't a lot of people I've ever thought that about. Thanks for the wonderful videos!
My mother used to make “tomato gravy”. It was really quite delicious! She added sugar to the gravy.
Yummy
My momma made it for my daddy 😻
We still make mater gravy in the Summer...
Had tomato gravy for the first time several months before my Momma past away and I asked her why she never made it and she smiled real big and said son it always reminded me of just how poor we were growing up and at times that's all we had to eat for day's. Funny how something we enjoy today is something that kept our Families alive through the toughest times.
I love gravy over sliced tomatoes, My boss was riding with me one time to his other terminal in Del Rio. We stopped at a little restaurant between Austin and San Antonio for breakfast. He was from Mississippi and when I ordered sliced tomatoes and gravy, he'd never heard of eating tomatoes that way.
There’s more to what you’re doing than just recipes. I feel like I’m home when you and your family are cooking and sharing stories. I’m so glad I found this channel. The world is a big mess right now, but families can still get together and enjoy the simple things in life. I suppose in a way, God used our grandparents to prep us for these uncertain times in many ways. We don’t just cook in the kitchen, we pray, we laugh, we cry, and sometimes we might raise our voice. We prepare our meals there and bond as a family. I like the kitchen much better than the room with the TV. Thanks and God bless.
Thank you Chad! I'm so glad you enjoy our videos and that they make you feel at home 😀
All my life I thought my mom just made this recipe up. I never knew other people ate this. Growing up my friends would spend the night and my mom would make this for breakfast and my friends just loved this!! I believe we were the only family in town that made this.
My Aunt June in Missouri used to make it for us. Only one in my family who ever did. Not sure where she got the recipe.
I'm from Kentucky and grew up on chocolate gravy with biscuits. My Hoosier kin called it poor man's pudding. It's still a family favorite!
I grew up on a farm in Middle TN. When my Mom or Grandma would make a cake, they would never put icing on it, and called it a Puddin, pronounced ‘pood-en’, but always made chocolate gravy to go over it. They used evaporated milk/water to make it and always in a black skillet. If we ever asked for chocolate icing, they would make it in the black skillet almost the same way but using butter. Then after it boiled several minutes, would take it off the heat and beat it until it was thick enough to spread over the cake. Would take forever bc you had to beat it until it cooled down. Hand/arm exhausted! Tasted like fudge- so rich! If she had any left over we would fight over what was left in the skillet and she would leave extra bc we loved eating it on saltine crackers. I have so many memories of my Mom sitting on our back porch where it was cooler, beating that icing in the black skillet. My other grandmother made a sweet white gravy to eat over cakes, but I unfortunately never got that recipe. Prob the same except without cocoa, but wish I knew!
Oh Lordie, I hadn't thought of that in years, I loved that cake with chocolate poured over it. My aunt could make the best moist chocolaty chocolate cake, but she put chocolate icing on it, still makes my mouth water.
I loved my grandma's pudding cake
My mother made chocolate gravy and homemade biscuits for breakfast when we were kids! We still have it today!
My parents were from central Kentucky, and she made chocolate gravy all my life.Her Mom taught her
I ❤️ your way. The old way when you listen to the older one's. When they knew how to do... Everybody may not know the old ways. My Grans used to say we were "Smart" if you were young and do the old way.🥰
We occasionally had chocolate gravy when I was growing up, but we had "creamed tomatoes over biscuits" all the time. I believe some people call it Tomato Gravy. My parents always raised a huge garden and "put up" hundreds and hundreds of pints and quarts of garden foods each summer and fall. Canned tomatoes were always plentiful, making creamed tomatoes over biscuits a very cheap meal for our family. It's still one of my three favorite comfort foods, but my wife refuses to eat it. Any time she's gone for the day, I make it for my meal. It just tastes like home.
Oh ,and by the way, I also break up my biscuits rather than cutting them open.
May I ask how you're making your tomato gravy??? I'm curious to know how that would be over biscuits with some salt pork or ham!
@@heirofdisa, I'd be thrilled to share with you how my mom and dad, and now I, make Creamed Tomatoes on Biscuits. Here are the directions:
I quart crushed tomatoes (32 oz.)
2 - 3 Tablespoons sugar
5 shakes of a salt shaker and 5 pepper
2 Tablespoons butter
1/4 cup water
2 Tablespoons cornstarch
Start baking your biscuits. When you get your biscuits in the oven, start the tomatoes. In a small bowl, stir together the water and cornstarch; set aside. In a medium saucepan, combine the tomatoes, sugar, salt, pepper, and butter. Over medium heat, bring the tomato mixture to a boil. As soon as it comes to a boil, stir in the cornstarch and water slurry. Boil one minute more and remove from the heat.
Break up a couple of baked biscuits in a serving bowl, spoon tomatoes over the biscuits, and top with a pat (or two) of butter. Enjoy!
@@tomwyant9297 thank you so much!! i can't wait to try this 💯 i appreciate you keeping your family's recipe alive, this is awesome.
@@heirofdisa, you are so welcome. If you want more of my recipes, check out my Facebook recipe page called, "Come Sit At My Table". I'm just an old country cook, but hopefully you'll like some more of my family's recipes.
You are a lovely lady. God bless you.
My family is from Arkansas I have a recipe for chocolate gravy, that has been passed down at least 4 generations. Ours is close we use milk then add butter and vanilla before serving. Vanilla is a newer addition. I think, the food ways of an area are affected by the origins and the heritage of its inhabitants Many families in the south have family recipes for chocolate gravy. Also, like you mentioned some are horrified by the notion. I think, it is regional but intertwined with heritage. Every family has a different recipe and so much of that knowledge is lost, as it was never written down.
I grew up in Vance County NC. I have enjoyed watching you since it brings back memories. I’ve been in south central PA since 98 now and miss so many things about the south. The chocolate gravy is a new thing for me but the biscuits make my heart glow.
I grew up in Southern WV and my Grandmother made it for us when we would spend the night at her house. She served it in a bowl. We would dip a piece of toast in it and eat it with our fingers. She made the toast in the oven under the broiler with four dabs of butter. Simply delicious!!
Yes indeed! Butter dot toast!
I remember visiting the holler as a child and after playing all day we'd come in and beg for food. My mother would tell us to go back out to play, but Aunt Benny would say, "Oh Rosie, them kids is hungry!" And suddenly there would be biscuits and chocolate gravy. In my memory it was the most delicious thing I'd ever eaten. I'm afraid to eat it as an adult because it's such a perfect memory that I don't dare touch it. Aunt Benny has been gone for years now. Thank you for bringing her back to me today.
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Oh my gosh, I can't believe that you showed how to make chocolate gravy. My mother made chocolate gravy when we were kids. And it was always with biscuits and butter. It is one of my favorite memories of those years. My mom used can milk and water or milk if there was enough in the house for the gravy. Her biscuits were legend in our family, but unfortunately I don't remember what all she used. Thank you so much for the wonderful memories.
I grew up eating this chocolate gravy, made with water & biscuits and we always loved it. I've also made this for my children & grandchildren for over 50 years. My grandmother also made it, we're in Alabama so chocolate gravy has been a delight here for many years! ❤️
Gravy of any flavor has always been my weakness. Chocolate would rank as "comfort food" around here and made only during times when the families gathered during holidays.
Dark bacon gravy over scrambled eggs and biscuits is still my favorite meal.
I make choclate gravy, my mom taught me she was raised on little Robinson Creek near Pikeville KY.
My Mammaw used to make it too, and she was also from Pikeville, KY (Feds Creek)
My mama and mom made it too, l was born and raised in Jenkins, Ky
Love Pike County KY.
I used to live in Pikeville .
Miss going to Hillbilly Days !!
Such great memories of my granny and mom making chocolate gravy. And I always made it for my sons and now have taught my sons’ wives to cook it. I told the girls that if they add milk that makes pudding-not gravy! LOL! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ My granny was from Tennessee and PaPa was from N. Carolina. All their kids grew up in Texas. Blessings from the ❤️ of Texas!
I’m so glad I found your channel! I just love the way you explain and demonstrate your cooking-and I LOVE your stories while you do it.♥️
My grandma made chocolate gravy and I loved it.
I’m from southeastern Alabama and my granny made chocolate gravy and we had tomato gravy too.✌️💕
I have heard of several different types of gravy but never chocolate gravy - it looks wonderful. Thank you for sharing your amazing stories, too. Hearing about different ways of life, the past, it makes one realize not only everything we currently take for granted, but also how far we have strayed from some of those ways of life that really should still be just as important today as they were back then - a sense of community, growing and preserving food, and a sense of responsibility to pass down knowledge.
Kristina-thank you for watching-and wow you said it just right-I so agree!!
I'm in love. It ain't just your cooking. Your voice, your skin, your eyes, your hair, your "accent" and more that I won't mention. I've watched three of your videos and I find I cook VERY much like you do. Didn't grow up in these mountains, but have been here over half my life and I'm 73-almost. You're quite a bit younger (not to mention married) so I'm not in pursuit. And I was crushed when I found out I didn't invent the biscuit with chocolate (I call it sauce) gravy many years ago. I got the same reaction from many the way your husband reacted--"Eww."
When I was in a children's home the lady cooked this and yummy
My husband's family is from Overton County, TN. We started dating as teenagers. I had never been south of Ohio (from Michigan), so when I was invited to take a trip with his family "down home," my world opened up!!! Mountains, Southern hospitality, and the FOOD! He kept telling me about the breakfast Aunt Trudy always made, which includes chocolate and biscuits. What??? But, boy that first bite was like heaven, and i was hooked! Scrambled eggs, country ham, red eye gravy, chocolate gravy, tomatoes. Oh my.❤
Oh thank you, Tipper! This was my Aunt Bubba's biscuit recipe that she taught me but I somehow forgot. Last time I tried to make biscuits they weren't even fit for the dogs! Just made this recipe and it's as easy and delicious as I remember. My aunt would also sometimes fry a big single biscuit in a cast iron skilet and called that Hoecake. Delicious
Wonderful!
I discovered your channel yesterday and i love it! Im from Cleveland, tn.
Thank you 🙂
When I was staying with my daughters father, he had an aunt named, Aunt Coot. She made what we call Sopping Cocoa. Thats the name we call chocolate gravy. Ive never heard anyone call it chocolate gravy before, but thats exactly what it is. We lived in small little place called Mill Creek in NC. Everyone there is either related to each other or close to the family. She would make it for breakfast and its too die for! You could put it on pretty much any of your breakfast food. Its been a long time since Ive had it and got so excited to see this video for your recipe :):) Thank You for sharing it!
I’ve thought it was Chocolate Water! That’s what I heard it called 🤷🏼♀️
I learned to make chocolate gravy from a little old lady from Arkansas when I was a young mom 25 years ago. It’s one of my favorite things!
Thanks, you took me home with this video. I just turn 66 years old and I sure can remember Sunday morning as a kid ,.My mother is from south Alabama and she would make chocolate gravy , biscuits and ham as a special treat. I can she her smiling now. Thanks for reminding me of those great memories!
My family came to Texas from Appalachia (Kentucky) over 100 years ago and we eat chocolate gravy on biscuits! It was my favorite as a kid.
Love listening to all your history and stories of Appalachia, I had never heard of chocolate gravy either, but then I’m an expat Australia. I’m going to try this for my Californian husband, he loves Southern cooking.
My husband's Aunt Altha made chocolate gravy and biscuits but most of us loved our chocolate gravy on fried potatoes. ..I know I thought yuk the first time I heard it but boy I changed my mind it's so so good. She made it like a thin pudding. She's been gone a long time now but I still make it sometimes but I sure do miss her.
reminds me of my mother such a great wholesome genuine country lady..These ladies make the world a better place.God bless you
I am from southern Arkansas and my grandma made chocolate gravy on special occasions for breakfast most of the time it was sawmill gravy or red eye gravy or sausage gravy. She also did not cut out her biscuits she hand rolled them. I learned at a early age how to cook by watching her.
I'm curious what you mean by hand rolling vs. cutting out biscuits? I roll out my dough then cut out individual biscuits. Details?
@@bcaye
She pinched off a piece of dough and rolled it between her hands to form a ball then put it in her pan and patted it down a little. Google hand rolled biscuits
@@markhurst3180, okay, I get you. If there's a small piece of dough left over I do that. I like the crisp edges of cut biscuits, though. They get more flaky as well imo. From MO.
That was part of Christmas breakfast in Marion County Arkansas
Yup my NC gma patted them too, grabbed a ball and patted it out
I still prefer those over rolled
She had a biscuit tray she made them in. Used it 2x a day usually
10 kids 😄
Chocolate gravy and butter biscuits was such a treat when we visited my great grandmother in Murphy, Nc.! We always did a sweet and savory biscuits half .
So awesome to hear these traditions being carried on. We are native georgians now . We are loyal white Lily fans too. Thank you for lovely video. !
My mammaw made biscuits and chocolate gravy and I never realized it was an Appalachian thing but it makes sense since she was born and bred in western NC. Thank you for bringing a sweet memory back ☺️
I just discovered your channel and I LOVE it. I've recently moved to Kentucky from Long Island, NY to be with my huge family here. So much that you talk about rings a bell to me that I tear up sometimes and I'm a 54 year old grown man. It just brings back so many memories of time with my grandmothers (Mammal) and things they made and did. Unfortunately I didn't get to know my Grandfather's, they both passed right after I was born. Thank you for what you do. God Bless you and your
family,
Us country folk here in NW Alabama was raised on chocolate gravy and biscuits and grits for breakfast, and still part of my breakfast menu on a regular basis now that I am 54!
We have eaten what we call Chocolate Syrup & Biscuits for generations in our North Texas family. Ours is different, it's syrup not gravy. Recipe = twice as much sugar as water and then add cocoa, boil till coats a spoon. (1 cup sugar, 1/2 water, 1 or 2 T cocoa. Bring to a boil till it coats a spoon/is desired syrup thickness). Serve over buttered hot biscuits. Granny generally doubled or tripled that amount and my mom always added a tablespoon of light corn syrup to stop any crystallization in cooled leftovers. Can't tell you how many generations this goes back, but I do know that my Great Great Grandmother made this. I also suspect perhaps for the same reason, to stretch what little food there was. My Grandmother said that they were so poor that many many times the evening meal would be only a bowl of water gravy, because they had no milk or had to save the milk, and they ate this without even biscuits during the roughest times. (water gravy = lard, flour and water). Like you, I have rarely ran across anyone who has heard of Chocolate Syrup & Biscuits, though we had it most every weekend growing up. I do recall my Grandmother telling me "some people make chocolate gravy", but that they made the syrup because 1. it tastes better and 2. it was cheaper and saved the flour. I have made chocolate gravy, and agree that the syrup version is better, though that may be only because it's what I grew up with. I of course made it occasionally for my kids, and now make for my grandkids at times. Also, try heating the cream for your cream biscuits, see if you like them better using warm/hot cream. I have made them both ways and agree with others that the hot cream improves the biscuit, although I make regular buttermilk biscuits with crisco like your mother's method instead of cream biscuits. (I make Cream biscuits if I am out of ingredients)
My grandmother and great-grandmother always made us chocolate and biscuits just as you describe. We just called it "chocolate" not chocolate syrup, but that's what it was.
I was raised in Monroe county TN in the Cherokee National forest and my grandmother made it like this, more syrup than gravy we put peanut butter and butter to melt in it and poured over or ate with biscuits.
I'm from Wisconsin. Family migrated from Kentucky before I was born. We have same recipe for what we call Biscuits and Chocolate. Same recipe. Tastes awesome. Love it.
Mom made chocolate gravy (yum) back in middle TN...1950's
East Tennessee . My Mama made it whenever she had leftover biscuits'. same way you described. Love it. Thanks for the memory.
Tipper! Every time that you cook, my tummy rumbles! You sure make me miss my granny all the more 🥰
Just came across your channel. Love this recipe as my Grandma who was from the upper, northwest corner of Alabama would fix this for us when we visited. I've been searching for a recipe. I believe she fixed it this way too. Thank you for sharing.
Where in alabama
My favorite !!!!!!My grandma use to make this for us. It was always her most requested . She was born in Tracy City ,TN
I grew up having chocolate gravy and homemade biscuits with lots of homemade butter . There’s nothing like a hot biscuit covered with chocolate gravy, with lots of melted butter, oozing down the gravy and biscuits. I loved bacon served on the side with this too lol
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I'm originally from the foothills of the Missouri Ozarks and my grandma made it. My dad taught my wife who taught my daughter who still makes it. We still enjoy it and I'm in my 60's. Thank you for teaching the "old" ways. This was when life was better and families cared about one another. I also love how your family is so musical. What a blessing.
Im in the foot hills of Mo now and my grandma passed down chocolate gravy
We always had our own milkcow when I was a kid so chocolate gravy was made with milk. Southern Ky.
Chocolate gravy brings back good memories. My wife was at Womack Army Hospital and had given birth to my first son. My Army neighbor who was from Alabama had his wife fix me chocolate gravy and biscuits before I went to see her. Even though I was from the southwestern mountains of Virginia I'd never had them. They sure were good and since wonderful friends, that I miss, made them, I'm sure it made them even better. Thanks for the memories.
Never heard of chocolate gravy but it sure sounds good. I'm in awe of your biscuit recipe! I just can't wait to try them, thank you! You are an excellent cook and storyteller.
I like your storytelling and your recipes. Thank you.
Hi Tipper!!! I'm brand new to your channel and I'm sure enjoying watching your videos. I lived in eastern TN, Gatlinburg to be exact for several years and I loved it there, but unfortunately in 2012 we had to move back home to FL. I love southern living and I esp love Appalachia. I love the food, the lifestyle and the simple way of living. TY for sharing all of your delicious food. God Bless!!
My family grew up in Hope, Arkansas and we would eat my Grandmas "Cocoa syrup " made with sugar.. corn syrup..cocoa powder...and other ingredients ...but no flour...it was more like a chocolate syrup than a gravy....poured over buttered biscuits torn into bite size pieces.
My Mama's family is from Emmet and family in Hope, Prescott, and Texarkana. Spent a lot of my life in those places. Never had chocolate gravy until I grew up and discovered it for myself. Love it! Regards to Hope for me.
My folks are from northwest Alabama. And my dad's absolute favorite breakfast was chocolate gravy and biscuits.
It's interesting to look back on old childhood memories with new eyes. Anyway, I'm from the Shenandoah valley in VA and never heard of chocolate gravy! I'd love to try this.
Oh how I LOOVE the sound of the insects! That's one of the best parts of the Country!
So many natural sounds and at times those millions of insects make combined sounds that are deafening!
I still love it!
It only sounds like that in Appalachia......
I'm from the Appalachia part of Ohio, although my family moved to South Florida when I was 8 years old, in 1955.
Those insect sounds take me right back to Ohio... to dusk in the country and in the deep country beautiful Summer days at any time of day..... I can even feel the Summer air on my skin when I hear that sound!
Thank-you for the memories!
My granny from Oklahoma she was a member of the Oklahoma Choctaw Nation, and she made us chocolate gravy over homemade biscuits and bacon.I loved it still do.
I’m a Florida girl, but married to a Kentucky boy. Thankfully, I have my MIL’s recipe for Chocolate gravy. My kids appreciate when I make it, usually for very special breakfasts, like Christmas morning or especially birthdays. Thanks for sharing your version of water gravy. I’ve made ours that way too, when money’s been tight.
My mama talked about eating chocolate gravy with her relatives in South Carolina. Also, her mama made biscuits using a big wooden bowl full of white lily flour, with a well in the middle for milk and a good layer of lard on her fingers.
I live in the foothills of North Carolina.Grew up here and mawmaw made us chocolate gravy for breakfast a lot.We thought it was the greatest thing in the world.Hot biscuits with chocolate gravy.I'm sure we ate because it was cheap to make but,to us it was special.I make it for my grandkids now and they think it is the greatest food ever.Love your programs.Reminds me of all the things we did growing up.
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I am very glad you posted this video about chocolate gravy. My mother-in-law raised 5 boys on very little, being widowed at a fairly young age. I married her second oldest son. Years later, after she passed, my husband wanted me to make him some chocolate gravy. He said his mother used to make it for them every Sunday morning. Well, I had never heard of such a thing but after googling it, found a recipe, like you said, using milk, and tried it. He loved it but I'll bet you anything she made it like you showed us. I've got to try that. Also those biscuits sound interesting. I'll try those too. Thanks for your videos.
I’m from Oklahoma and growing up, chocolate gravy was a real treat. Actually, a lot of things you make I grew up eating. I don’t know my family’s history, but it makes me wonder if at some point they migrated from Appalachia.
We all love your channel mrs tipper and love you to u are such a great lady!!! Keep the video's coming lots of love and prayers from Somerset KY
Thanks so much!
That sounds good for a sweet breakfast with some milk 🥛
I really like you. I love your kind and gentle energy. I'm in west TN, but we're not very different. My ancestors made their way down through Appalachia over to the west part of the state to become farmers.
Chocolate gravy is well known in Alabama too.
It's so good with biscuits 😀
I'm from Manchester Kentucky and I grew up eating chocolate gravy and biscuits. It was my favorite thing that my granny made. Thanks so much for sharing.
My Mamaw was forced to make this for me every time I went to her house.
I love your videos! We all should live a simple life like this. It is so important. Thank you for bringing real life to UA-cam. I love the recipes and stories that you share. I’m definitely making these biscuits ❤
You are a wonderful storyteller! I enjoy each one!
This looks so delicious! Thank you for sharing such a wonderful recipe!
You have a beautiful soft voice. I could listen to your storytelling for hours!!!
Thanks for sharing. Always a pleasure hearing the story behind the recipe. You bring it to life for us in such a fashion that we can visualize exactly what you were experiencing at the very moment you tasted the food.
Thank you so much 😀
I was raised in south GA, and I grew up eating Chocolate Gravy and biscuits! My ancestors apparently migrated from Appalachia (north GA and NC) and settled in south GA. Your channel is so cool because I'm learning so much about the origins of the things I grew up hearing and eating. Things people who aren't familiar with might seem a little weird, and are definitely hard to explain. Such as my Aunt who made my warts go away, and my Granddaddy who could cure infants from thrush, and a family friend who could talk the fire out of burns. I never really understood where all of that came from, so thank you for sharing so much!
I'm from Tennessee and still live here and my grannie who lived next door to me made chocolate gravy for us. It was always one of my favorite meals for breakfast and still is. ❤😊❤
Your channel brings back good memories of my childhood. My grandparents were from Tennessee and lived in the boothill of Missouri for years before moving to the big city of Houston in 1961. I grew up with chocolate gravy and homemade biscuits and it’s rare to find someone who knows what it is! My grandmother cooked with lard and made many of the same recipes that I see on your channel. Their cornbread recipe is similar to yours and they ate it plenty of times broken up into a glass of buttermilk! Anyway, I enjoy your channel because much of it reminds me of my grandparents and great grandparents and the recipes they used to bring family together.
Tipper, Thank you so much for explaining what Chocolate Gravy is. My mother grew up poor in Nebraska. She always make chocolate gravy and we loved it. I always thought it was my moms own creation but now I know. Her maternal grandmother was from Kentucky. When you said that it was used on those mornings when there was no meat etc for breakfast I had a Ahha moment as to why my mom served it so much. I grew up poor but I never knew that. Listening to you and your stories reminds me of sitting at my Grandmother table years ago listening to her talk about her life and instructions. I miss that so much. Thank you for what you do!
Thanks Sue!!
I usually always skip to the cooking part on most cooking videos but I listened to every bit of you talking and could’ve listened all day! What a treat ❤
I appreciate that!
Thank you for bringing me back home!!! God bless you! I feel I have known you my whole life!
My ex was from western North Carolina I think Haywood county and a mountain man at that he told me lots of story’s of the mountains I love them I love your stories of your heritage thank you for sharing you cook like my great grandmothers did
I'm 51 and grew up in West Tennessee eating chocolate gravy on biscuits often. Can remember my maternal grandmother making it. Oh the wonderful memories. Thanks for your vlogs.
Thank you my mother in law used to make chocolate gravy glad to have the recipe for the chocolate gravy she’s from Alabama
My Dad loved apple stack cakes. Im so glad to have come across your videos. Thank you. 😊
My Granny who raised me made this and passed it to me, I now make it for my grandbabies ❤ thank you for your story 🥰
We had friends who had chocolate gravy almost every morning!!! One of my fondest memories was eating breakfast with them almost every weekend!!!!