from page 20 of LOOKING FOR GATSBY, autobiography of Faye Dunaway:

"It was also a lean time. The farm wasn't producing enough to support the ever-growing extended family, and there were weeks in the winter when all we had for dinner was tomato gravy. Mother would put oil in a cast-iron skillet, then a handful of flour, and brown it, then add tomatoes that she and Olma (as in "Old Ma", Faye's grandmother, Maggie Lena Fears Smith) had canned in late summer. She'd pour the steaming tomato gravy over fresh biscuits she'd make from flour, buttermilk, and lard, and call us in to dinner." https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32908827/maggie-lena-smith