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I ruined 3 batches of gravy before my aunt finally spoke up at Thanksgiving
For years I thought you had to whisk flour into cold milk for gravy. Turns out, my aunt saw me doing it at her house last November and just watched me struggle for 20 minutes before she gently said, 'Honey, you're supposed to use the hot drippings first.' I had been making lumpy, paste-like gravy for every holiday since college. Has anyone else had a relative just let them keep messing up a basic recipe instead of stepping in?
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theaw652d ago
My take is that the issue isn't so much skipping the hot fat as it is the order you mix things. I make gravy all the time and I always whisk the flour right into the hot drippings first, then slowly add the cold milk or broth while whisking. That way the flour cooks out and you don't get that raw paste texture. Your method of putting flour in cold milk first just makes a thick slurry that doesn't blend right once it hits the pan. My mom taught me that trick after I had a few lumpy batches myself.
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