This recipe comes to MrBreakfast.com by way of Laura Flowers and her awesome (although unfortunately no longer updated) blog called The Cooking Photographer. You'll find recipes there for every meal, all with fantastic photos. If you like this recipe, she has a whole section called "Biscuits, Muffins & Quick Breads."

To Make The Buttermilk Biscuits:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Cover an insulated cookie sheet with parchment paper. If you don't have one, double up two cookie sheets together.

Put flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a food processor and process to mix. Add butter and pulse until crumbly with small pea sized butter pieces still in places. Add buttermilk and pulse just until the dough comes together.

Flour a surface, dump out dough, and then flour top of dough. Kneed a few times and roll out to about 1 inch thick. Cut out biscuits with a drinking glass or biscuit cutter. Continue to roll out dough and cut biscuits until dough is used up.

Place biscuits on cookie sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes until golden on top.

To Make The Sausage Gravy:

Break up sausage into a very large skillet or wide bottom pot. Cook over medium high breaking apart the sausage into small pieces. When no longer pink and well cooked remove the sausage from the pan leaving the grease behind and set the meat aside. Add butter and oil and stir occasionally until the butter is melted.

Next, add the flour and cook for 3 to 4 minutes stirring frequently. Add the salt, pepper, and cayenne. Rub the thyme between the palms of your hands to crush it while adding to the pan. Slowly stir in the milk and bring it to a simmer stirring constantly until gravy is thickened to taste. Add the sausage back in and cook for a couple minutes to warm through.

Season with more salt and pepper if needed and serve hot over biscuits.





Also check out Laura's recipe for Brussels Sprout Bacon Potato Hash.


The great American southern breakfast staple. Best served when the biscuits are fresh from the oven.

Mr Breakfast would like to thank LauraFlowers for this recipe.

Overall Average Rating = 4 (out of 5)

Based on 3 votes.

From Yum!

Rating (out of 5):

This was perfect, much better than the version I have been making for years. Just the right balance of ingredients.

Comment submitted: 10/1/2011 (#12961)



From tater tot

Rating (out of 5):

The gravy was great. I added a pinch more pepper because I like my gravy peppery. Didn't make the biscuits. Had the gravy over leftover biscuits from Thanksgiving. Will post again if I try the biscuits. Thanks for the gravy recipe!

Comment submitted: 12/2/2010 (#11651)



From overeater

Rating (out of 5):

Sorry not the best...

Comment submitted: 11/28/2010 (#11632)

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