"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri 28 Oct 2005 02:49:21p, ms_peacock wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>>
>> "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.
>
> Yes, that's the only kind of red-eye gravy I know. In fact, it should
> be
> country ham.

and country ham is?