Chocolate gravy
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Chocolate gravy is a variety of gravy made with cocoa powder, sugar, butter and flour and is part of traditional Appalachian cuisine. It is most often served as a Sunday morning dish with fresh biscuits in the Ozark[1] and Appalachian Mountain[2] regions.
The origins of chocolate gravy are unknown. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America describes it as a traditional part of Melungeon cuisine.[3] It theorizes that chocolate gravy might be connected to the use of chocolate in Mexican cuisine, having been transmitted through trade between Spanish Louisiana and the Tennessee Valley.[4] Professor Fred Sauceman theorized that it might have developed more recently as Hershey's cocoa powder became popular in the United States.[5]
