1. make homemade biscuits. 2. make sausage gravy: brown sausage in a large saucepan. use a paper towel to blot out most of the grease from the pan. add flour, butter, and half & half. cook on medium low, stirring often, for several minutes until thickened. add spices: thyme, rosemary, red pepper flakes and black pepper. Reduce heat to medium, and cook until light brown. gradually whisk in milk, and cook until thickened. stir in cooked sausage if you removed it. reduce heat, and simmer for 12 to 15 minutes. season with salt and pepper, and optional hot sauce. if gravy becomes too thick, stir in a little more milk.
While the biscuits bake, start the gravy. melt butter in the cast iron skillet over medium high heat and cook sausage. when just cooked through, reduce heat to medium, and sprinkle flour over the cooked meat. then stir constantly for 3 minutes or until the flour smell is gone. Preheat oven to 475 degrees. in a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and cream of tartar. use a cheese grater to grate the butter into the bowl on the largest holes of your box grater. stir butter into flour mixture. In a large skillet over medium heat, cook the sausage until browned and no longer pink, breaking it into pieces as it cooks. sprinkle the flour over the cooked sausage. stir until the flour is absorbed and the sausage is evenly coated, about 1 2 minutes. gradually pour in the milk, stirring constantly. For the biscuits. in a bowl, sift the 2 1 3 cup flour, 5 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt, and 2 tsp sugar. slice 3 4 cup cold butter into small cubes and cut it into the flour using a pastry cutter. continue cutting until the butter is the size of peas. whisk in 1 cup of buttermilk into the flour butter mixture.
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