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Gravy Secrets




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.. for each cup of gravy you need one tablespoon each of fat and flour
Instructions:
List of 15 items
1. Before hand make up some rich turkey broth, use the bones or the
organs.
I like to use the bones but that means no big uncarved turkey on the
dinner
table.
2. You can simmer turkey neck, heart, gizzard, and and some minced
onion,
and celery and ½ t salt in enough water to cover until vegetables are
done.
3. Dice the turkey liver and use the hot broth to simmer the diced
turkey
liver for about 15 minutes The turkey bones yield much more broth and
you
can
add more vegetables to the pan.
4. Don't forget to get the brownings from the pan as mom says "that's
the
goodies" just after you've removed the cooked turkey and roasting rack
from
the
roasting pan. Strain poultry drippings through a sieve into a 4-cup
glass
measuring cup.
5. I then use 3 tb of corn oil to stir around in the bottom of the pan
and
get out the brown bits that have baked on. That gets added to my turkey
drippings
and I still really "wash" the pan out with my turkey broth if its made
(or
the water Im going to use in my broth if I haven't made it yet).
6. To make Gravy you need three things; well seasoned fat, flour, and
good
Rich broth.
7. For each cup of finished gravy you need one tablespoon of Fat and
one
tablespoon of flour and 1 cup of broth.
8. The trick is to know How many cups of broth you have and to see if
you
have that much fat.
9. If you are light on the broth end you can add some canned chicken
broth
10. If you are light on the fat side you can add a small amount of corn
oil,.or just save the rest of your broth for storing and reheating the
turkey.
11. There are a few more tricks to making good gravy. First be sure to
take
the measured fat and stir into it the measured flour and then put it
over
the
burner. Make sure you have covered all the flour with fat and blended
It
well.
12. Then you cook the flour and fat mixture until it begins to smell
Just
slightly salty. It will be bubbly and look like its just this side of
brown.
13. Next REMOVE THE PAN FROM THE BURNER and whisk in the entire
measured
liquids.
14. Then return the pan to the burner and slowly bring this almost to a
boil.
15. Remember you already cooked the flour in the fat so all you need to
do
now is stir this until it thickens up to what you like. You can let it
stay
sort
of thin or let it cook out until it is thicker than your Mashed
potatoes.