West Virginia Breakfast favorite! Deer Gravy and Biscuits

Biscuits and Deer Gravy
A hunter's must have breakfast!
Gravy
Ingredients:
Aprox. 1 pound Deer, cubed
Depending on the season substitutions of squirrel and possum can be made!
1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon onion salt
Salt and Pepper to taste
1/2 cup cooking oil or melted lard
2 cups of milk
1 cup of water
Directions:
Cover meat in flour
Brown in oil using a large cast iron skillet or teflon skillet lacking a cast iron one.
Add the rest of the flour and brown with meat.
More oil may be needed to keep mixture moist.
Add two cups milk, 1 cup water and seasonings.
Bring to boil, stirring constantly. You may add more water to desired thickness; We like it creamy.
Biscuits
Preheat oven to 450 degrees
Ingredients:
4 cups flour
5 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup oil
1 and 1/2 cups of Milk
Directions:
Blend together flour, baking powder and oil until mixture is crumbly.
Add cups milk
Shape biscuits by hand or with cutter.
Place on cookie sheet and bake for aprox. 12 minutes.

Dish the gravy over them there biscuits and you're ready to go a huntin!

Possum and Sweet Tater Delight

Ingredients:
1 possum, cleaned and cut up in bite-size pieces
a tad over a pinch about 1/2 teaspoon salt
a pinch of or 1/4 teaspoon coarse black pepper
5-6, depending on the size, sweet potatoes, warshed and cut up in chunks
about a handful or a 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
another handful or 1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup lard/oleo, or crisco/ margerine
pert close to a gallon of water, more if needed
Marshmellows added to the top of the taters make it real purty!

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees

Directions:
Skin and wash possum.
Put possum in a large sauce pot/kettle.
Cover with water.
Add salt and pepper.
Cover pot and steam until possum is tender. Aprox. 1 hour.
Save 2 cups of juice.
Place possum in center of roaster and place sweet taters evenly around the possum.
Sprinkle with white and brown sugars over taters.
Dab the oleo on top of the sugars evenly.
Pour the 2 cups of juice over everything.
Bake until taters are fork tender and light brown, the juices from the possum should have cooked away.
Aprox. 45 minutes
Add marshmellows to the top after removing from ven or add 5 minutes before removing from oven!