All you people who put flour or cornflour in your gravy

You are WRONG.

No need for that gloopy s**te. The way to thicken gravy is to keep heating it. Simples.

Best stock for gravy is made by roasting bones. And excellent additions to gravy (besides all those tips below about roast vegs/garlic/herbs, all quite correct, well done) are (a) fruit juice and (b) jam/redcurrant jelly. A tip given to me once by the cordon bleu girl we had cooking one summer in Scotland; sounds weird but makes superb gravy.

Flour is only one step above Oxo.

Posted By: Old Git on September 30th 2009 at 13:23:41

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All you people who put flour or cornflour in your gravy (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 30, 13:23:41
- Poato water (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, Sep 30, 15:36:38
- Marigold Swiss Organic Vegetable Bouillon is a very good powdered stock (General Chat) - Small, Sep 30, 13:50:40
  - Agreed (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 30, 13:55:58
- And remember to grate some puffin on before serving (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Sep 30, 13:38:56
- I can't be the onion who thinks this gravy talk has gone too far (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Sep 30, 13:33:15
  - i'm rather browned off with it too (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 30, 13:36:35
    - it's making us a laughing stock (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Sep 30, 13:38:06
      - Gravy's a joke (n/m) (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Sep 30, 13:40:21
        
        Enough of your sauce (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 30, 13:43:16
- Good afternoon. (n/m) (General Chat) - Ostentatious Git, Sep 30, 13:30:05
- reducrrant jelly is a good one (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 30, 13:28:10
  - I loves rosemary... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Sep 30, 13:32:58
  - No, you must have lots of gravy (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 30, 13:31:37
    - disagree (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 30, 13:37:20
      - Like with custard, lack of volume can seriously ruin a meal for me... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Sep 30, 13:39:36
        
        too true! (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Sep 30, 13:41:15
- Did your cook ask you pass that on? (n/m) (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Sep 30, 13:27:43
- You lot have waaaayyy too much time on your hands (n/m) (General Chat) - DNB41, Sep 30, 13:27:05
  - If we didn't we wouldn't be on here. (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Sep 30, 13:27:56
    - Oh yeah (n/m) (General Chat) - DNB41, Sep 30, 13:28:16
- I like to pour a bit of my strongbow in it. (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Sep 30, 13:26:10
  - That's OK (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 30, 13:27:34

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