Ok! Thanks, Ebbie.. I'll see if I can make something from those instructions. I have cooked a number of things, but never learned baking...(biscuits, pie crusts...etc.)

kat..it may be that the 'gravy' we had was closer to 'white sauce' than I realize.

and about: "Cover those suckers in strawberries and cream!! "

I wasn't gonna mention that, but since it's up...one of my pet peeves is putting strawberries over that doughy, yellow commercial stuff and calling it 'shortcake'. Shortcake is 'almost' a biscuit, and should be served warm! I haven't had really good, homemade shortcake in years. Maybe I'll add shortcake variations to my biscuit attempts this Summer, as good berries become available...(and the best strawberries are NOT those huge photo-ready things they have selected for SIZE. You haven't lived until you have gone to a field and picked your own thumb-sized (we called them Arkansas berries in Kansas).