Biscuits and gravy


Lord, thank you for endowing me with insane biscuit skillz. 









This biscuit is so light and well moist inside and still crispy on the outside. 

I do not have any milk around here so I used coconut milk instead. There was a can of that in the pantry.  So I guess now I can recommend coconut milk for biscuits. Nothing special about the taste but the texture of the biscuits is delightful. 

The gravy is ordinary pan gravy from a dark roux but over-spiced to oblivion. Coconut milk in that too. 

Biscuit:

* 1/2 cup unsifted flour +1/2 cup reserve
*  2 teaspoons lard
*  2 teaspoons cold butter
*  large pinch of sea salt
*  generous grind of black pepper
*  large pinch of sage
*  large pinch of oregano
* 1 rounded teaspoon baking powder
* 1/4 cup coconut milk 

The coconut milk is a guess. That came last. Everything else into a bowl, the cold fat pinched and rubbed until all the dry ingredients are evenly loaded with flattened specks of fat. I put in too much fat so a tablespoon of flour was transferred into the bowl from the reserve 1/2 cup. 

Drizzle coconut milk into the dry ingredients and mix until it pulls together into a wad of rather dry dough. 

The reserve flour is for flattening the dough into a rectangle on a work surface. Painting the surface with coconut milk then sprinkling a little flour and fold, thus creating layers. I decided not to do that because the little bunch looked just fine as it was. So all that reserve flour was used for the gravy and the excess returned to the bag. 

Gravy:

* butter into a pot
* salt and pepper
* garlic powder
* oregano and sage to match what went into the biscuit
* cayenne pepper
* mild curry
* flour
* commercial chicken broth
* coconut milk

A roux is formed with the butter and dry ingredients. It's let go on low to a dark color. Cajun cooks will tell you that roux cannot be rushed. You cannot just turn the knob to high and let 'er rip. Roux is not for the impatient. Having said that, much of what made this roux dark is the excess of spices put into it. 

Chicken whisked in incrementally. Coconut milk whisked in. The entire amount of liquid ingredients about a cup. 

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