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How to make the best biscuits and gravy, the easiest brunch ever if you follow these steps

What's white and lumpy and hails from the American South? Besides me, I mean.

That's right. It's our old pal sausage gravy, the dish for which the adjective "mucilaginous" was invented.

Sausage gravy is so much more than the spackley white glop of our misshapen youth, and today, we plumb its sublimity.

WHY YOU NEED TO LEARN THIS

What, I didn't have you at "spackley white glop"? OK, then, howzabout, besides being delicious and iconically comforting, it's also one of the easiest things to make ever. And, as if that's not enough, it's just as easy to make a huge pile of it as it is to make a couple of servings. Trust me: If your memory's as good as my elephant's, you'll remember this the next time the choir drops in for Sunday brunch and they'll literally be singing

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