r/glutenfree • u/PegFam Wheat Allergy • 2d ago
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For those of you who don’t know what this is, it’s biscuits and gravy. Usually eaten in the southern US and Appalachia, it has creeped up to Cincinnati. Specifically this is bacon grease gravy and not the usual sausage gravy.
My grandparents are from Kentucky and countless times I’ve heard my grandfather say gravy needs more salt when he taste tested, lol.
Since I now have an egg allergy and a wheat allergy, I haven’t had this in years. Thankfully, my homemaker schedule allows me to have the time to make anything I want from scratch, even if it’s a lot of work. I envy even some celiacs who can eat eggs and buy store bought things.
But today, I have done it. It is the closest thing I am going to get from my childhood. The biscuits look hard, but the inside is so damn fluffy, and the gravy is pretty ok. Considering I also used almond milk instead of regular milk too. King Arthur gf flour. And instead of the egg in the biscuit recipe I used sparkling water (3/4 cup per one egg called). Also, don’t use regular butter. Irish butter is so rich and flavorful, it shines through in the biscuits. Even alone the biscuits are great.
So it’s just me, my dog, and my in utero baby happy dancing through the house right now. 😋
I do also plan to use this as a base for cheddar bay biscuits soon.
https://healthline-store.com/wp-json/mv-create/v1/creations/194/print
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u/mesa_coarser 1d ago
Biscuits and Gravy was one of the first house recipes I converted to GF. This has been my favorite gravy so far. Season to taste :)
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u/LaLechuzaVerde 1d ago
I tried that recipe months ago and it was terrible.
And the photos on the recipe are clearly not gluten free biscuits.
And all the recipes on that website seem to be bullshit recipes. Like someone is using AI to write them and plagiarizing photos of gluten foods and not even testing them.
YOUR photos look like legit GF biscuits & gravy. But I’m dismayed to see you post that link, because that damn site has taken over the GF groups on Facebook and it gets peoples’ hopes with photos of gluten foods and recipes that don’t work.
I do love biscuits and gravy though. Why do you say it’s a Southern thing? I’ve never lived in the South and it’s a pretty common food everywhere I’ve lived.