Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 274 views

    Biscuits and Sausage Gravy Recipe From The Kitchen Daughter

    Uploaded by

    Simon and Schuster
    After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna's soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears with a cryptic warning ("do no let her…") before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish. A haunted kitchen isn't Ginny's only challenge. Her domineering sister, Amanda, (aka "Demanda") insists on selling their parents' house, the only home Ginny has ever known. As she packs up her parents' belongings, Ginny finds evidence of family secrets she isn't sure how to unravel. She knows how to turn milk into cheese and cream into butter, but she doesn't know why her mother hid a letter in the bedroom chimney, or the identity of the woman in her father's photographs. The more she learns, the more she realizes the keys to these riddles lie with the dead, and there's only one way to get answers: cook from dead people's recipes, raise their ghosts, and ask them.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content

    You might also like

    Biscuits and Sausage Gravy Recipe From The Kitchen Daughter

    Uploaded by

    Simon and Schuster
    274 views1 page
    After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna's soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears with a cryptic warning ("do no let her…") before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish. A haunted kitchen isn't Ginny's only challenge. Her domineering sister, Amanda, (aka "Demanda") insists on selling their parents' house, the only home Ginny has ever known. As she packs up her parents' belongings, Ginny finds evidence of family secrets she isn't sure how to unravel. She knows how to turn milk into cheese and cream into butter, but she doesn't know why her mother hid a letter in the bedroom chimney, or the identity of the woman in her father's photographs. The more she learns, the more she realizes the keys to these riddles lie with the dead, and there's only one way to get answers: cook from dead people's recipes, raise their ghosts, and ask them.

    Original Title

    Biscuits and Sausage Gravy Recipe from The Kitchen Daughter

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna's soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears with a cryptic warning ("do no let her…") before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish. A haunted kitchen isn't Ginny's only challenge. Her domineering sister, Amanda, (aka "Demanda") insists on selling their parents' house, the only home Ginny has ever known. As she packs up her parents' belongings, Ginny finds evidence of family secrets she isn't sure how to unravel. She knows how to turn milk into cheese and cream into butter, but she doesn't know why her mother hid a letter in the bedroom chimney, or the identity of the woman in her father's photographs. The more she learns, the more she realizes the keys to these riddles lie with the dead, and there's only one way to get answers: cook from dead people's recipes, raise their ghosts, and ask them.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    274 views1 page

    Biscuits and Sausage Gravy Recipe From The Kitchen Daughter

    Uploaded by

    Simon and Schuster
    After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna's soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears with a cryptic warning ("do no let her…") before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish. A haunted kitchen isn't Ginny's only challenge. Her domineering sister, Amanda, (aka "Demanda") insists on selling their parents' house, the only home Ginny has ever known. As she packs up her parents' belongings, Ginny finds evidence of family secrets she isn't sure how to unravel. She knows how to turn milk into cheese and cream into butter, but she doesn't know why her mother hid a letter in the bedroom chimney, or the identity of the woman in her father's photographs. The more she learns, the more she realizes the keys to these riddles lie with the dead, and there's only one way to get answers: cook from dead people's recipes, raise their ghosts, and ask them.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 1

    Biscuits and Sausage Gravy Recipe

    2 C flour 2 t sugar
    2 t BP 1 t salt
    1/3 C shortening 2/3 milk w/1 T vinegar

    Cut shortening into dry ingredients. Stir in milk – may take more – dough should
    be soft and puffy. Knead lightly 20 times. Roll or pat out 1 inch thick. Cut in circles.
    Bake at 450 for 10 to 12 minutes.

    ¾ lb sausage ¼ C flour 1-2 C milk

    Crumble and brown sausage in large pan. When brown, add flour and stir to coat.
    Return to heat and add enough milk to cover sausage. Cook 10 minutes, stirring
    frequently, as gravy thickens. Adjust with add’l milk for desired consistency. Grind
    on black pepper. Serve.

    Of all the recipes in The Kitchen Daughter, this one is my


    favorite. Each of the recipes in the book belongs to a
    character – when my narrator Ginny cooks from family
    recipes, the ghosts of those family members return to her
    kitchen, for as long as the scent of the food lingers. But this is
    fiction, and I am not my narrator. So these recipes are from
    different traditions than mine. They’re Peruvian and Tuscan
    and southern. I’m Ukrainian and Cornish and midwestern.
    Most of the recipes in the book aren’t my family recipes. But
    this one is.

    Whenever the McHenry family gets together, we don’t


    consider one meal done unless we’ve discussed what we’re
    going to have at the next meal. Breakfast, lunch, dinner,
    snacks. And when we’re together, we always have this for at
    least one breakfast: biscuits with sausage gravy. My mom and
    my dad are both great at making it, and originally, the recipe comes from my Grandma McHenry.
    The only change I made for the book was to substitute soured milk – regular milk soured by
    adding a small amount of vinegar – for buttermilk, because I knew the character wouldn’t have
    buttermilk in her fridge. I like it a little better with buttermilk. You can make it either way. As a
    matter of fact, in a pinch you can use pre-made biscuits and just make the gravy yourself – the
    gravy comes together fast, and that’s where most of the flavor is, and you’re going to pour the gravy
    over the biscuits anyway. At least that’s how we do it in my family.

    You might also like