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Sacre blu (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 17 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Don’t forget your 8 glasses of gravy per day! All part of a balanced American diet

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

    And it’s gotta be that weird white “gravy”. WTF even is that shit? Is it just hot ranch dressing? 🤢

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    White gravy is basically just roux with pepper. You use the rendered fat (plus some butter) from the meat you're cooking, add some flour, let it cook for a bit and then pour some milk in. Salt and pepper to taste, there ya go, white gravy

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    If you're my mom or grandma, you use the crisco tub in the fridge full of used bacon grease, cooking oil, butter, margarine, and yes, even some crisco, and you make it with that.

    I didn't know what I was fed for my entire childhood was nominally a "white" gravy until well into adulthood.

    It was pretty good though, NGL.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (2 children)

    White sauce? The one you pour over asparagus?

    And they eat that in the morning müsli? 🤢

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    American white gravy is just bechamel/besciamella with lots of black pepper.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    Isn't bechamel usually made with butter? White gravy uses the rendered fat of sausage or bacon so it has that smoky savory flavor

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Isn't bechamel usually made with butter?

    Yes, but so is white gravy, usually. The white gravy served with fried foods (like fried chicken, chicken fried steak) tend to be made with butter, but the white gravy served at breakfast (like sausage gravy on biscuits) tends to use excess sausage fat.

    But if you go and make bechamel with a roux made from rendered animal fat instead of butter, it would still be a bechamel.

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