ms_peacock wrote:
> "OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>>
>> Reconstruction was post-civil war. The re-structuring and rebuilding
>> of the southern states that tried to cecede from the union. Very
>> American history. ;-)
>>
>> Sausage gravy??? OH boy!
>>
>> Fry some pork sausage, sliced or link. Leave the grease in the pan.
>> Add flour to make a roux and enough milk to thin to the desired
>> consitency. For red-eye gravy, add coffee.
>
> I always thought red-eye gravy was made from the pan drippings left
> from frying ham.
>
It's fried ham drippings with coffee added to keep the gravy "red".

>> Serve over buscuits with sausage, fried eggs on the side and hash
>> browns (grated potato mixed with egg) if you have them.
>>
>
> I don't think you're going to get hash browns in the South. I've
> also never had hash browns made from grated potato mixed with egg.
>
>> Southern cooking at it's, uh, best? <lol>
>>
>> Cheers!
>> --
>> Om.
>
> You don't like Southern cooking?
>
> Ms P, from a long line of Southern cooks.

Home fries and hash browns (sans egg) are quite common. Either chunks of
potatoes fried up with onions *or* grated potatoes cooked in oil in a cast
iron skillet until crispy outside, tender inside, like a big shredded potato
pancake.

Jill