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Does anyone have the old fashion type "chocolate gravy" recipe?

Chocolate gravey recipe
2 T flour
2 T chocolate
sugar to taste
milk 1-2 cups for the amount of choclate you want. cook till start to thickens but not to thick then serve over hot bicuits and butter. This is the way my grandmother use to make it on a wood cook stove.....Sheila Swindle

My grandmother & mom made their chocolate gravy just like that too! Always using Hershey's cocoa powder, though. It's sooooo good.

They also, for breakfast, would sometimes make a gravy out of chicken broth (basically a roux):
melt 2 to 3 tbsps. shortening
put 2 to 3 tbsps. of flour, stir until light brown.
slowly pour 2 to 3 cups chicken broth. stir till thickens. Serve over homemade biscuits.

They'd serve it with fried salmon patties and sliced peaches. Sounds like a wierd combo, but was actually good together.

Best Gravy ever! MawMaw can still do it to! Best cook in Florence is MawMaw's house! TheSwindleMaster

I make my chocolate gravy in some of the drippings after cooking bacon or country ham(ham makes the best). YUM,, now I am going to have to make some tomorrow morning

also I have my grannys reciepe she made chocolate cobbler
melt 1 1/2 sticks of butter(REAL butter) in 9x13 pan.set aside
mix 1 1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup PLUS 2T cocoa
set this dry mix aside

boil 2 and 1/4 c water

mix by hand: 1 1/2 cup self rising flour
1 cup sugar
3 T cocoa
1t vanilla
3/4 cup milk
spoon mixture over melted butter (do not mix!)
sprinkle dry mixture over batter mixture
SLOWLY pour boiling water over the mixture
bake in preheated oven at 325 for 35 min.

best eaten warm with a big scoop of ice cream on it!

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Originally posted by tdreader:
Does anyone have any simple recipes from say 50+ years ago? I mean made with indredients that likely could have been found in poor folks' kitchens? Like blackberry cobbler, fried apple pies, black walnut cake? It doesn't have to only be desserts. I don't cook but I am interested.

tdreader , you might want to check this http://allrecipes.com/ out. I'm sure there are not many old recipes. They might come close.

I am looking for a Tea Cake receipe
I have tried numerous ones I found inline and in cook books,but they are all too sweet, not like the ones my granny made.

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Originally posted by smurph:
I am looking for a Tea Cake receipe
I have tried numerous ones I found inline and in cook books,but they are all too sweet, not like the ones my granny made.

I found this recipe, it's similar (ingredients) to what my mom & grandma made. But I remember my mom making her tea cakes like drop biscuits?? Seems like she didn't roll them out on the counter. I don't know, maybe I'm thinking of something else.

1 3/4 c. sugar
1 c. shortening
3 c. flour
1 tsp. vanilla or lemon flavoring
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, and add remaining ingredients. Knead dough on floured board. Chill. Roll out and cut. Bake 8 minutes at 325 degrees.

my granny made hers like drop biscuits also!
thanks for the recipe,i will give it a try!

You're welcome. Hope it works & brings back good memories.

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Originally posted by SwindleMaster2007:
Chocolate gravey recipe
2 T flour
2 T chocolate
sugar to taste
milk 1-2 cups for the amount of choclate you want. cook till start to thickens but not to thick then serve over hot bicuits and butter. This is the way my grandmother use to make it on a wood cook stove.....Sheila Swindle

Thank you and will give it a try.