cream gravy

White pan sauce

Cream gravy is a thick white sauce made from pan drippings, flour, and milk, served over biscuits, chicken-fried steak, or other Southern and comfort foods.

The gravy gets its name from its pale color and creamy texture rather than containing actual cream: Smother those biscuits in cream gravy.

Also called white gravy or sawmill gravy.

Related

down home cooking · flour · milk · drippings · pan · pork · breakfast · lumpy · smooth · smothered · ladle · chicken-fried steak · comfort food · stick to your ribs · roux · pepper · thick · homestyle

Categories
Opposites
richness/heaviness

cream gravyconsommé

Clarified, concentrated stock

salsa · au jus · broth · jus · vinaigrette

gravy base/color

cream gravybrown gravy

Savory meat drippings sauce

beef gravy · pan gravy · red-eye gravy · mushroom gravy · onion gravy

Family

cream, gravy, creams, creamy, creamed, creamery, creamier, creamiest, creaminess

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G