Chocolate Gravy

(pour over biscuits - the scone-like bread, not a cookie)

Chocolate gravy. Its one of those things that old people in the south expound about, recalling with wistful smiles normally reserved for Christmas morning.

In days of old, with flour in abundance and other resources scarce, biscuits made a great breakfast and filling snack any time of day. Sweets were not a regular occurrence and so waking up in the morning to find fresh biscuits and a boat of chocolate gravy was a wondrous treat. It was poured over the buttered biscuits, then the tender bread soaks it up and you are then on your way to heaven no matter what the day has in store for you.

Don't try this unless you want the flavor to linger in your mind for the rest of your life. It is purely divine.


Ingredients:

1 cup white sugar
2 Tbsp flour
1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/4 cups milk
1 tablespoon butter


Preparation:

Put sugar in a heavy saucepan, add flour. ...and cocoa powder ....and milk... Stir well.

It will be a little lumpy but those will cook up so don't worry. Just keep stirring. We want to stir this constantly, over medium heat. The goal is to bring it slowly to a boil. We need to be careful though, because if you stop stirring it the milk will scorch rather easily.

When it comes to a low boil, turn the heat off and continue stirring for a minute or two.
This will thicken up rather suddenly to the consistency of a thin gravy.
Haven't you enjoyed smelling it all this time? Its like a chocolate steam spa!

Add butter and stir well.

Pour over biscuits (the bread kind, not the cookie kind)

I hope you can smell this. If not, get into your kitchen and make up some quick! Chocolate Gravy is super easy, but such an indulgent taste!